Huajiachi Campus, Zhejiang University

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Huajiachi Campus (Traditional Chinese: 浙江大學華傢池校區, Simplified Chinese: 浙江大学华家池校区), is a major urban campus of Zhejiang University.

[edit] Introduction

The campus owns a famous lake named Huajiachi, which is the second largest lake in Hangzhou after the West Lake. Hua (華/华) is a common Chinese surname, and jia (家) means family in Chinese; so Huajia implies that this place probably belonged to the Hua Family in the ancient time. Chi (池) stands for lake. And the campus is just named after the lake. ^[1]

Before 1998, it was the campus of the Zhejiang Agricultural University (ZAU). In 1998, the university was merged into the Zhejiang University. In fact, before 1953, the ZAU was an agriculture Sschool of the Zhejiang University, so it was a kind of rejoining, the same as the previous Hangzhou University, Zhejiang Medical University. etc. ^[2]

The campus owns a total surface of 1484 mu, with a constructional area of 0.3 million m². It owns a botanical garden, which is the first one in modern China's history. ^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ http://baike.baidu.com/view/421849.htm
2. ^ http://www.qsc.zju.edu.cn/redir.php?catalog_id=49&object_id=32634
3. ^ http://www.zju.edu.cn/xqzl/xqyl/xqly3.htm