The Zhejiang University of Technology is a public research university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is considered one of the top industrial universities in mainland China and the second-largest university in Zhejiang Province after the more comprehensive Zhejiang University.
Engineering, especially chemical and biological engineering, is its strongest discipline. During the 1980s it made an effort to become a comprehensive technological university instead of a technological college. It keeps a close and broad relationship with the industry.
It is a typical technical university of the new generation in China. It followed the trend during the 1980s and 1990s of Chinese technical institutes changing from the Soviet specialized style into a much more comprehensive style.