Zaozhuang University

The government of Shandong Province converted it to a tertiary institute focused on the education field in 1984.

It received its current name in 2004 along with a change into being a general post-secondary college.

[1] In 2018, Zaozhuang University began allowing students to major in Esperanto.

[2] In 2023, in all of China, only Zaozhuang University still had a department dedicated to teaching Esperanto.

That enrollment decreased after a social media influencer mocked the program the following month.