As a prominent research-intensive university established in 1952 directly authorized by Chinese Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) has been making every endeavor to feature itself with world-class teaching and research capacity for the past decades. It has a strong tradition of working with industries. The university is now developing into a multi-disciplinary higher educational institution with a balanced curriculum of science, engineering, economics, humanities, arts and law spreading among 15 academic schools. ECUST has 3 campuses in the city of Shanghai, providing an academic and cross-cultural environment for almost 26,400 students and 3,500 staff members from home and abroad. The university has been devoted itself to establishing partnerships with like-mind organizations by sharing common ground and by exchanging diverse resources in order to guide our faculty and students to a higher academic platform and a wider international landscape. We are proud to have the disciplines of chemistry, materials science, engineering, biology and biochemistry being ranked among Top1% according to Essential Science Indicators under a global benchmark. (Updated on May 1 2013 by ESI) Today, we are running forward, trying to develop avant-garde disciplines for regional development and work with prestigious global partners to increase core competitiveness, to bring progressive technological solutions and to create new concepts to the sustainability of the community.