Wuhan University (WHU) is a comprehensive and key national university directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education. It is also one of the "211 Project" and "985 Project"universities with full support in the construction and development from the central and local government of China.

The history of Wuhan University can be traced back to Ziqiang Institute, which was founded in 1893 by Zhang Zhidong, the then governor of Hubei Province and Hunan Province in the late Qing Dynasty. In the process of development and evolution, the institute changed its name several times before it was finally named Wuhan National University in 1928. It is one of the earliest comprehensive national universities in modern China. By the end of 1946, the university had established 6 colleges, the colleges of liberal art, law, sciences, engineering, agriculture and medicine. In 2000, an amalgamation of the former Wuhan University, Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, and Hubei Medical University was announced, which ushered in a new era in its 100-odd years of development.For the past century, Wuhan University has built an elegant palatial architectural complex of primitive simplicity which blends perfectly the eastern architectural style with that of the west. It is honored as the "Most Beautiful University in China". Furthermore, Wuhan University's centennial humanistic accumulation boils down to its succinct motto, that is, "Self-improvement, Perseverance, Truth-seeking & Innovation".

Since its establishment, Wuhan University has cultivated more than 300 thousand professional talents in various occupations, among whom there are over 100 members of the Chinese Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. They have made great contribution to the national construction and social advancement. The remarkable achievements of Wuhan University have won itself an extensive international reputation. In 1999, the world renowned journalSciencelisted Wuhan University as one of the most prominent institutions of higher education in China.

Burgeoning are the international exchanges and cooperation of Wuhan University in recent years. It has established cooperative relationship with more than 400 universities and research institutes in over 70 countries and regions.

Wuhan University (WHU) is proficient in natural sciences research. Its sciences have a solid foundation and its engineering boasts distinct characteristics. WHU is proud of its prominent faculty. It has 4 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 11 leading scientists from National 973 Program, 4 specialists of the 863 Program, 4 innovative teams of CSC (China Scholarship Council) and 29 winners of National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars.

WHU has 4 state key laboratories, 2 national engineering research centers, 2 national field research stations, 12 key laboratories at the level of MOE (the Ministry of Education), 5 engineering research centers at the level of MOE, 37 key research bases of natural sciences at provincial and ministry level and an array of WHU scientific research centers.

From 2001 to 2009, WHU identified and approved more than 250 applicable scientific and technological achievements, and won more than 400 national, ministerial or provincial scientific and technological awards among which national awards amounted to 25 including 1 National Prize for Technological Invention, 5 National Prizes for Natural Sciences, and 19 National Prizes for Progress in Science and Technology. In 2010, WHU won 2 National Second Prizes for Natural Sciences, 11 National Prizes for Progress in Science and Technology and 46 provincial or ministerial scientific and technological awards.

Wuhan University actively use its technological and intellectual resources, through the transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, cooperate with enterprises and scientific research institutions to carry out multi-level, multi field cooperation and develop the the high and new technology industry development platform, co-founded the more than 70 high-tech enterprises, and achieved good social and economic benefits as well as promote the development of the university.

Experts and scholars of Humanities and Social Sciences, give full play to the "think tank" role, actively explore the relation of national economic construction, the major theories of social development and human progress and realistic problems, made a number of great theoretical significance and application value of the research results and provides a powerful theoretical guarantee and intellectual support for the country's economic construction and social development.

Asking for knowledge in Wuhan University and be taught in Luojia. Wuhan University, the first to propose education ideas about the creation, innovation, entrepreneurship view,training "thick foundation, wide caliber, high quality, innovative" compound talents, actively explore personnel training mode that adapts to the economic and social development. There are 31886 undergraduate students, 16625 graduate students, 6741 doctoral students, including 1037 students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and 1577 foreign students. Since the founding, the school has trained a total of more than 40 million various types of senior specialized talents, only academicians have more than 100 people, making important contributions to national construction and social progress.

With the high level of achievement of the University, Wuhan University has won a wide range of international reputation, international exchanges and cooperation is increasingly frequent,the university establish a cooperative relationship with 45 countries and regions of the 415 universities, research institutions.

Facing the new opportunities and challenges,with the scientific development concept as a guide, Wuhan University established the overall goal to become a world first-class high level university,and has been clear about the positioning of the development of the construction of comprehensive, research-based, International University,Wuhan University is committed to promote the coordinated development of scholars and science, academic, style of study, students and constantly improve the school's comprehensive strength and core competitiveness, advances in innovation, the whole school showing the rapid development of the new situation.

One hundred years of wind and rain, hundreds of years of hone, hundreds of years of glory. Wuhan University is full of confidence and pride towards a better future!

State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering (hereinafter referred to as the laboratory) in 1985, approved by the state building in 1989 and officially opened by acceptance. The current director of Academic Committee Li Deyi academicians, laboratory director Professor Liu Mengchi. Laboratory research staff 56 existing fixed, including 30 professors, associate professors 15. Under 5 Research: Theory Research Software Engineering, Service Engineering Laboratory, intelligent software lab, laboratory trusted software, data management, and two research institutions Research: Software Testing Center of Hubei, Zhuhai R & D centers, as well as three committees: Professor Committee, Council for the Promotion of scientific research work, research Promotion Committee.

Laboratories around the "Internet Software Engineering" main research directions in service-oriented software engineering, semantic intelligence software, trusted software, semantic information management, carried out theories, methods, techniques, standards, infrastructure, and research typical applications . Five years, a total of 213 research projects undertaken and completed, which hosted 973 projects a, 863 projects 12, a national science and technology major projects, the National Natural Science Foundation of China 5. In domestic and foreign journals published 1123, in which 105 SCI papers published on the 14. National Science and Technology Progress Award 1, provincial prize 5. 25 invention patents, utility model patents 3, 27 software copyrights. Presided over the development of the ISO international standard five national standards 4.

Laboratory focus on academic cooperation and exchanges with well-known universities and research institutions have established extensive contacts, five years, organizing international and domestic academic conferences 12 times, inviting well-known scholars, experts reported 126 laboratory academic field, select academic backbone of international academic exchange 120 passengers, do special reports on important domestic and international academic conference on 14 games.

Good laboratory research conditions. Has more than five thousand square meters of office buildings and equipment worth 35.91 million yuan, of which 30 million yuan of equipment 16, including high-performance computing systems, grid computing systems, software testing system, three-dimensional simulation system, cloud computing platform analysis and design modeling software platform.

Laboratory implementation of the "open, mobile, joint competition" approach, the national needs, to carry out basic and applied basic software engineering research, the key software engineering techniques to solve problems and promote scientific research and effort to build a software engineering laboratory have the ability to develop the academic, methods, innovation and the ability of social services authority, to become an important domestic and foreign software engineering research base, training base and academic exchange center.