Zhejiang University of Media and Communications

uncing and Anchoring Art, English and Chinese Bilingual Announcing and Anchoring Art, Radio and TV Directing, Photography, Acting, Animation Art, Broadcast Journalism and Broadcast Engineering in the 12 schools of ZUMC. ZUMC is a modern, outward-looking institution with excellent facilities and resources to assist students in their studies. The University is well equipped with advanced teaching and experimental facilities that create and guarantee students a professionally efficient and people-friendly learning environment. About 100 labs are in use serving the school’s daily teaching of film and TV post-production, announcing and anchoring, digital film and TV special effects, non-linear editing and other important courses in broadcast journalism and TV/film production. The newly-invested HDTV Broadcast Van provides experimental teaching with a comprehensively better virtual and real-time broadcasting environment. The 22-storey multi-functional Media Tower, at an investment of 20 million USD, houses 17 broadcasting studios of various sizes and has now become a production base for teaching and research activities as well as TV programme making. The University Library holds more than 900,000 printed items on various subjects, in addition to vast quantities of audio-visual materials for learning and teaching. Forging effective partnerships is integral to ZUMC’s belief in maximasing the social impact of its intellectual resources. Recent years of rapid development is marked by ZUMC’s active cooperation with local, national and international partners in education and the media industry. This has made ZUMC a particularly well known Chinese institution in the broadcast industry to our parners in the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Sweden, South Korea, France, Germany, Italy and other countries. So far over 40 institutions of higher learning in these countries have established cooperation with us in student/teacher exchange projects, short-term visit, teacher training, various joint-programmes and other international academic activities. The partnership has brought about new ideas and modes of management and in particular, a broad space for learning, teaching and research and wider choices for students entering and graduating from ZUMC. ZUMC is situated in Hangzhou, the beautiful capital city of Zhejiang Province, known to the Chinese people as “Paradise on Earth”. The University has two campuses, the main one in Xiasha and the other in Tongxiang, some 60 kilometers to the east of the Xiasha Campus.