Zhejiang University is based in Hangzhou, with its address on Yuhangtang Road. It traces its origins to Qiushi Academy, established in 1897, which admitted its first 30 students on 21 May that year. In July 1927 the institution was set up as No. 3 Sun Yat-sen University, and in 1928 it took the name National Zhejiang University, according to a history of its campuses published by the university in May 2024.
During the war with Japan from 1937 the university moved several times, to Jiande in Zhejiang, Ji’an and Taihe in Jiangxi, Yishan in Guangxi and Zunyi and Meitan in Guizhou, before restoring its Hangzhou campus after 1945. Its present campuses include Zijingang, and it runs an International Campus. MA Yanming is President, and REN Shaobo is Chairman of the University Council.