The origination of the School of Journalism and Communication can be traced back to the initiation of the major of journalism in 1959 in the discipline of Chinese language and literature. In 1983, the State Education Commission chose to rebuild the major of Journalism and established the department of Journalism, out of a requirement in regard to the strategic layout for constructing key majors. In July, 2004, Lanzhou University founded the School of Journalism and Communication. In July, 2014, in accord to the themes of the documents from the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the Ministry of Education, the Propaganda Department of the Gansu Provincial Committee and Lanzhou University signed an agreement for jointly constructing the school, which became “a school of co-construction by the Department and the University”.