KUST is composed of three campuses, Lianhua, Xinying and Bailong, all are in Kunming City, occupying an area of about 120 hectares. The buildings in the 3 campuses occupy over 730,000 square meters, and many important construction projects are still in progress. The university library has about 1.7 million volumes of books and periodicals, and the library is authorized as a state-level research documents collection unit. KUST has founded a state-level engineering research center, 2 provincial and/or ministerial level test stations, 2 research and development centers, 2 key laboratories of provincial level and 1 class-A design and research institute. There are 32 research institutes, 13 research laboratories and 13 research centers in KUST.