2 Zhejiang Public Industrial Junior College and Zhejiang Public Agricultural Junior College
On November 26, 1910, Zeng Yun, Grand Coordinator of Zhejiang Province, applied for the founding of an industrial college and got approved by the Qing court. On March 27, 1911, Zhejiang Secondary Industrial Academy was formally opened, located at Baoguo Temple (on the site of former Tongyuan Bureau), Yangguan Lane, Puchang Alley in Hangzhou. From 1912 to 1920, its name changed several times, such as Zhejiang Public Secondary Industrial School, Zhejiang Public Variety I Industrial School and Zhejiang Provincial Variety I Industrial School. In 1920, it was upgraded to Zhejiang Public Industrial Junior College (ZPIJC), with two departments: Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Department of Applied Chemistry (renamed later as Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Chemical Engineering). The length of schooling was four years, including one preparatory year and three undergraduate years. ZPIJC had a subsidiary Variety I Industrial School, recruiting two varieties of students. Variety I was divided into four majors, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Chemistry and Dyeing &Weaving; Variety II into twelve majors including Metal Processing, Carpentry, Forging, Foundry, Electrical Loom, Dyeing, Silk Throwing, Carving, Engine, Paper-making, Leather-making, and Studies of Oil & Fats. The development of ZPIJC marked the origin of higher industrial education in Zhejiang Province. In 1927, ZPIJC was reorganized into the School of Engineering in the National Third Sun Yat-sen University. The photo shows the site of ZPIJC at Baoguo Temple at Yangguan Lane, Puchang Alley, Hangzhou.
Xu Bingkun (1878-1965)
Courtesy name Tingfu, he was an industrialist and educator. Xu was President of Zhejiang Public Industrial Junior College from 1910 to 1924 and proposed the school motto “Sincere and Simple”. Xu emphasized the guiding principle of education as “high level, strict requirements, and mind and hand”, so that the College could cultivate ideal professionals with “strong physique, excellent morality, accurate knowledge, perseverance, agility and skilled techniques”.
On January 22, 1910, Zeng yun, Grand Coordinator of Zhejiang Province, applied to establish a higher agricultural academy and an agricultural normal school. In September the same year, the Agricultural Normal School was built, located at Mapo Alley and moved to Henghe Bridge later. In 1912, it was renamed as Zhejiang Secondary Agricultural Academy and then Zhejiang Provincial Variety I Agricultural School. In April 1913, the school was moved to a new campus located at Jianqiao, Hangzhou. In 1924, it was upgraded to Zhejiang Public Agricultural Junior College (ZPAJC) with the Department of Agriculture and Department of Forestry, and one subsidiary senior high school of agriculture. The ZPAJC marked the start of higher agricultural education in Zhejiang Province. In 1927, ZPAJC was merged into the National Third Sun Yat-sen University as the School of Labor and Agriculture. The photo shows the campus of ZPAJC.
Xu Xuan (1876-1934)
Courtesy name Shuji, he was an anagronomist, educator of agricultural studies, and a pioneer in agricultural economics. In 1924, he was the President of Zhejiang Public Agricultural Junior College. Xu proposed an educational ideology of “merging academic education into rural affairs”.
Tan Xihong (1891-1956)
Courtesy name Zhongkui, he was an educator of agricultural studies. In May 1927, he was appointed as the President of Zhejiang Public Agricultural Junior College. Then he was Dean of School of Labor and Agriculture of the National Third Sun Yat-sen University and of Zhejiang University.
ZPIJC and ZPAJC initiated Zhejiang's higher education in industry and agriculture. Before being reorganized into the National Third Sun Yat-sen University, the two colleges had already cultivated a great number of students.
Wu Juenong (1897-1989)
An agronomist and the founder of modern tea industry of China. Wu studied at Zhejiang Provincial Variety I Agricultural School and taught there after he graduated in 1916. In 1918, he went to Japan for further studies. Later, he pioneered the major of tea science in higher education institutions and established a national tea company. After the founding of New China, Wu was Vice Minister of Agricultrue.
Du Jinsheng (1897-1943)A patriotic industrialist. He majored in machine weaving at Zhejiang Variety I Industrial School in 1913 and stayed at school as a lecturer after graduating in 1917. In 1922, he founded Du Jinsheng Silk Factory, pioneering silk paintings with themes of landscape, portraits and art patterns. His silk products were sold to Southeast Asia, Europe and America. In 1926, his silk products won the gold award at Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
Xia Yan (1900-1995)
Originally named Shen Naixi, he was a writer, film artist and one of the pioneers of New Culture Movement. In 1916, he studied at the Department of Dyeing & Weaving in Zhejiang Variety I Industrial School. After the breakout of New Culture Movement (May Fourth Movement), Xia founded a journal named Double Ten with his schoolmates.After the founding of New China, Xia was Vice Minister of Culture, Vice President of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC), and Chairman of China Film Association.
Chang Shuhong (1904-1994)
A painter and scholar of Dunhuang studies. Chang studied at Department of Dyeing & Weaving in Zhejiang Public Variety I Industrial School in 1918 and stayed at school as a lecturer after he graduating in 1923. In 1927, he went to France for further studies. Chang devoted the rest of his life to the research, protection and restoration of Dunhuang art as the“Guardian of Dunhuang”.
Enrollment Registration Card of Du Jinsheng.
Enrollment Registration Card of Xia Yan.
Shen Xiling (1904-1940)
Originally named Shen Xuecheng, he was a playwright& film artist. He studied at Department of Dyeing &Weaving in Zhejiang Provincial Variety I Industrial School in 1918.
Wang Guosong (1902-1983)
An electrical engineer and educator. He studied electrical engineering at Zhejiang Public Industrial Junior College in 1920, then went abroad and returned to China in 1933. Wang was Head of Department of Electrical Engineering, Dean of College of Engineering, Vice President and Acting President of Zhejiang University.
Cai Changnian (1905-1991)
An academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and expert in electrical power system. He studied electrical engineering at Zhejiang Public Industrial Junior College in 1920.
Zhao Jiuzhang (1907-1968)
A meteorologist, geophysicist, and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Meritorious Service Medalist of “Nuclear Bombs, Missiles and Man-made Satellites”. He studied electrical engineering at Zhejiang Public Industrial Junior College from 1925 to 1927.
A Graduation Certificate Stub of Zhejiang Public Variety I Industrial School.