Lanzhou University of Technology is located in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province. It is a key university with a long history of Provincial Bureau. The school has been classified as the national Ministry of motor manufacturing industry and the first national Ministry of machinery industry. It is an important base for the cultivation of high-level talents and scientific and technological research in China, and the cultivation of national defense industry technical personnel in modern China. The institution of higher education is known as the cradle of engineers. Its predecessor was the Gansu provincial Craft School, founded in 1919. In 1958, the school was renamed Gansu Polytechnic University. In 2003, the school was renamed Lanzhou University of Technology.

The school is the People's Republic of China Ministry of education, the national defense science and Technology Industry Bureau and the Gansu Provincial People's government to build key universities, national defense education characteristics colleges and universities, the twenty-seventh Chinese people's Liberation Army Reserve officers selection and training base, the first Gansu province with the right to study doctoral studies and set up the research flow of post doctoral research The only one university, the only national military scientific research and production University in Gansu, the only Engineering University of the State Key Laboratory in Gansu, the education ministry "excellent engineer education training plan", the national "innovation ability promotion plan" (2011 plan), the national "college student innovation experiment plan", The national "central and Western Higher Education revitalization plan" focuses on the establishment of a member of the Executive Committee of the national automobile mobile IOT joint design center, the "50 college graduates in 2009", "the Shanghai cooperation organization university" and "the area one road" university strategy alliance members, and the first 99 in the country. One of the demonstration colleges of innovation and entrepreneurship education reform.

The school covers an area of 4000 mu, 1 billion 699 million yuan in fixed assets and 2 million 220 thousand books in the library. There are 2 graduate schools, 2 National University Science Parks, 21 two level colleges and 68 undergraduate specialties. There are 4512 full-time graduate students, 22698 undergraduates and 250 overseas students.