Donghua University (DHU) is one of the National Key Universities directly under the Ministry of Education (MoE) of China and enlisted in China’s Project 211 (the top 100 universities selected by the MoE in 1995 as national priority universities for the 21st century) and “Double First-Class University Plan” (most recently announced by the Chinese Government in October 2017, to develop a group of elite Chinese universities and individual university departments to world standard disciplinary, high-level institution with a focus on textile, material, as well as design. DHU is surging towards the goal of building “a high-level research university with domestic first-class, international influence and characteristics.”

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