Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics was established in October, 1952. It is located in Nanjing, the ancient capital of six dynasties. Minggugong Campus is situated on the remains of the ancient Ming Palace, and Jiangjunlu Campus is situated in Jiangning Economic and Technological Development Zone, covering an area of more than 460 acres with a building floor space of 800, 000 square meters. The library has a collection of over 2, 000, 000 volumes. Now the total number of registered students is 24, 600, including 15, 600 undergraduates, 6, 000 postgraduates, and 200 international students. NUAA also has 5, 200 part-time students. NUAA has a staff of 2, 900, among whom over 1, 700 are faculty members and researchers, including about 1000 professors and associate professors, 10 CAS academicians, 199 Ph.D. supervisors, 3 members of Academic Degree Committee under the State Council, 3 “Changjiang Scholar Award” professors, 26 professors with national or provincial recognition for their outstanding contributions, 136 experts who enjoy special government allowance.

NUAA has gone through 3 historic periods since 1952, evolving from a teaching-oriented university to a research-oriented university. NUAA is a national key university characteristic of science and engineering. It enjoys a well-balanced development of multiple disciplines in engineering and technology, management sciences, natural sciences, humanities and social sciences with the characteristics of aeronautics, astronautics and civil aviation. NUAA has successfully entered the “211 Project” and become one of the 52 universities with the graduate school.

NUAA consists of the following colleges: College of Astronautics, College of Aerospace Engineering, College of Energy & Power Engineering, College of Automation Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, College of Material Science and Technology, College of Civil Aviation, College of Flight, College of Science, College of Economics and Management, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Foreign Languages, College of Arts, Jincheng College, College of Global Education, College of Continuing Education and Department of Physical Education. NUAA has set up 83 research institutes, such as unmanned aircraft vehicle research institute and helicopter technology research institute, and 51 laboratories including 1 National Key Laboratory, 12 Ministerial Key Laboratories, 2 National Engineering Teaching Bases and 2 National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centre, providing the first class facilities and conditions for teaching and research.

NUAA offers a wide range of programs including 46 undergraduate programs, 127 master programs and 52 doctoral programs. 2 first grade and 9 second grade disciplines are awarded national key disciplines. The former includes Aerospace Science & Technology and Mechanics. The latter includes Aircraft Design, Aerospace Propulsion Theory & Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering of Aerospace Vehicle, Man-Machine and Environmental Engineering, General and Fundamental Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Manufacture & Automation. 8 disciplines are key disciplines of the Commission of National Defense Science, Technology and Industry, such as Tele-Communication & Information Systems, Technology of Micro Air Vehicles, etc. 10 disciplines are key disciplines of Jiangsu Province, such as Mechanical Design and Theory, Navigation Guidance & Control, etc. 4 disciplines such as Aircraft Design, Mechanical Manufacture & Automation, Engineering Mechanics, Manufacturing Engineering of Aerospace Vehicle are especially set up for “Changjiang Scholar Award” professors. Besides, NUAA has set up 12 postdoctoral programs, such as Aerospace Science & Technology, etc.

For a long time, NUAA has been sticking to high quality education and focusing on the cultivation of students’ creative and comprehensive abilities, which has made great achievements in teaching. Since 1989, NUAA has won a total of 77 teaching awards above provincial and ministerial levels, 14 of which are national awards. Students from NUAA have done good jobs in the national competitions of Mechanics, Mathematical Modeling and “Challenge Cup” (National extracurricular science and technology competition) for undergraduates. So far NUAA has cultivated more than 90, 000 talents of different specialties. Many of them have become the backbones in different fields and made great contributions to the modernization of national defense and economic development.

NUAA has attached great importance to scientific research and shown great advantages in the research of basic sciences after 55 years’ development. NUAA is leading domestically in 15 research areas such as Mechanics, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Mechanical Manufacture and Automation, etc. NUAA is placed in national advanced level for 21 research areas such as Aerospace Engine, Aircraft Control and Imitation, Electric Power and Electron, etc. Every year NUAA takes on more than 10 “973 Project”, “863 Project” and National Natural Science Fund Projects. Presently the amount of Natural Science Fund reaches over 10, 000, 000 yuan annually. NUAA accomplished a group of important key programs of science and technology.

Since the implement of the policy of reform and opening-up, NUAA has sped up its management reform with more support from the central and local governments. It has been enhancing the linkage and cooperation with the industries and enterprises. At the same time, NUAA actively developed wide international cooperation and exchange, established long-term cooperative relationships with over 50 universities and many famous enterprises from Germany, France, Russia, Britain, U. S. A., Canada, Australia, Korea, Japan and other countries and Hongkong and Taiwan areas. It has formed a new pattern of development with special focus on national defense, serving Jiangsu, radiating China and facing the world.

Within only 55 years, NUAA has created a campus culture with unique characteristics. Motivated by the motto “cooperative, economical, practical and creative”, the faculty and students have made great achievements. For 18 years in succession NUAA has gained the titles of “Civil Unit in Jiangsu Province”, “National Model Family”, “National Advanced Unit of Education Union “, “National Advanced Unit in Administrating Affairs Openly” and other honorary titles.

Turning from a teaching-oriented university to a research-oriented university, NUAA decides to implement the strategy of “relying on faculty and students, giving full play to potentials, highlighting features, accelerating development”. Faced with new challenges and opportunities, the administration, faculty and students are determined to build NUAA into a first class university with international renown.

Hunan University is located in Changsha,capital city of Hunan Province.

The University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), founded in 1952, is a national key university under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Education of China . USTB is famous for its study of metallurgy and material science. While engineering is the focus, there are also programs in basic science, management, humanities, economics and law. USTB is one of the 33 Universities in China that are entitled to establish state-approved graduate schools. In 1997,USTB was listed as one of the first group of universities admitted to China ’s “211 Project”, i.e to be built up into one of the 100 first rate universities in 21 century.

USTB consists of 9 schools, provides 39 undergraduate programs, 65 master programs, 26 doctoral programs and 7 postdoctoral research fields. USTB attaches great importance to the establishment and development of its academic disciplines. As a result of many years of development, seven national key disciplines such as Ferrous Metallurgy, Materials Science, Materials Processing Engineering, Mechanical Design and Theory and Mining Engineering etc. have long enjoyed established fame both at home and abroad, so are Management Science and Engineering, History of Science and Technology which have won a high reputation as well. Disciplines such as Control Theory and Control Engineering, Thermal Engineering, and Mechatronic Engineering are being developed on a solid basis. In addition, newly-developed disciplines such as Computer Science, Information Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Civil Engineering, are glowing with vigor and vitality.

In October of 2003, the total enrollment of over 14,000 full time students includes 9,661 undergraduates, 3,080 master candidates, 1140 doctoral candidates and 81 international students.

USTB prides itself a strong faculty known for their meticulous scholarship and academic excellence. Among its 1063 faculty are 255 professors, 347 associate professors. Including 7 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Science and 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Scientific researches in USTB focus on the solution of major scientific and technology problems in the modernization of metallurgical and materials production, as well as the development of new technology. Many breakthroughs have been achieved in the areas of technological research and major technical problems have been solved for metallurgical and materials industries. From 1978 to 2002, 776 research projects have been awarded prizes at state, provincial or ministerial level, 106 prizes were at the state level. USTB has been awarded 153 prizes of various kinds since 1998, including 13 National Invention Prize, National Prize for Natural Sciences and National Prize for Advancement in Science & Technology. Among the 84 patents granted, 3 have been transferred to the American Iron & Steel Association, five have been rewarded with profit of over ten million yuan. From 1991 to 1993, USTB ranked sixth, fourth and fifteenth respectively among universities nationwide for winning the National Prizes for Natural Sciences, for Advancement in Science & Technology and the National Invention Prize. Besides, USTB plays an important role in academic disciplines. In 2002, USTB ranked the sixteenth and twenty-third respectively among Chinese universities for the number of theses included in EI and SCI.

USTB total area 557,858 square meters is located in Haidian District of Beijing faced Fourth Ring Road, where most key institutions of higher learning are gathered.

USTB is an institution involving the Chinese Government Scholarship Program and has been accepting the international students since 1954. More than two thousands of students from 74 countries and regions have been studying and doing research work in the university. In fall of 2003,there are 81 international students, including 34 undergraduates, 15 master candidates, 8 doctoral candidates and 24 non-degree students (21 of them are language students).

Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), located at Xizhimenwai of Beijing, is a national key university of China, directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education. Her predecessor is Beijing Railway Management Training Institute and Beijing School of Posts and Telecommunications, set up by Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Qing Dynasty. In 1921, the school merged with two industrial technical schools in Shanghai and Tangshanto form the National Jiaotong University, with three branch universities in Beijing, Shanghai and Tangshan respectively. BJTU was then called as Beijing Campus of National Jiaotong University. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in October 1st 1949, BJTU was re-named as Northern Jiaotong University (NJTU) by the State Council. Chairman Mao Zedong appointed Academician Mao Yisheng, a nationally renowned expert in bridge engineering, as the first president of NJTU. In 1951, Chairman Mao Zedong autographed the name of the university. 1981, BJTU became one of the first key universities authorized by the central government to confer master’s and doctoral degrees, and subsequently to confer titles of associate professors, professors and Ph.D. advisors. In July 1994, BJTU was selected as one of the first universities in the National 211 Project. In April 2000, Beijing Electrical Power College was merged into NJTU. Then the university was transferred from the Ministry of Railways to the Ministry of Education. In September 2003, the university restored the name Beijing Jiaotong University.

Over the past hundred years, after arduous efforts and struggles of generations, BJTU has developed into a multidisciplinary key university, featuring Engineering, Management, Economics, Science and Humanities. Meanwhile, our university is a key base for training talents tackling vital problems concerning technologies and policies in reforming and modernizing railway. For the past several years, more progress has been made in our university. The campus is taking on an ever-changing new look, the education quality and level of scientific research are improving steadily, academic exchanges are more frequent and in all, the comprehensive ability of the university is on a constant rise.

BJTU campus covers an area of 640 thousand square meters, while dormitories covering another 560 thousand square meters. Today, besides Graduate School and School of Continuing Education, we have other nine schools which are School of Electronic and Information Engineering, School of Computer and Information Technology, School of Economics and Management, School of Traffic and Transportation, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, School of Mechanical and Dynamical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Electrical Power Studies, School of Sciences, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and what’s more, there are three schools of vocational education and two on-the-job training centers for managerial personnel and technicians. We have 5 state key disciplines (including Communications and Information System, Signals and Information Processing, Traffic Information Engineering and Control, Traffic and Transportation Programming and Management and Discipline of Industrial Economies). Besides, there are still 11 ministerial key disciplines, 71 graduate programs, 28 doctoral programs and 8 post-Doctoral scientific research stations namely, are Information and Communication Engineering, Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Industrial Economies, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Control Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanics. 5 disciplines are granted to establish the positions of Changjiang Scholars. The university has currently 22 research institutes and centers and 39 laboratories in a variety of academic fields. Its Traffic and Transportation Simulation Laboratory and Transportation Automaton Laboratory are among the best and largest in China. Our fixed assets including equipment for teaching and scientific research cost over 1 billion Yuan in all. Our modernized library has a collection of over one million books and 3,000 kinds of periodicals both home and abroad. Many other materials have been digitalized and are accessible through computer network. The university’s computer network is part of the CERNET (China Education and Research Network), which is a broadband computer network connecting China ’s top-level higher educational and research institutions. Through the CERNET, BJTU faculty and students have easy access to the information resources on the Internet.

The university has about 2700 faculty and staff members. The faculty is joined by 8 academicians from CAS and CAE, 212 full professors and 502 associate professors. There are nearly 19,000 full-time students, including about 14,000 undergraduate students, 5,000 graduate students and 150 overseas students. Besides, there are also more than 8,000 part-time and correspondence students. To educate people through teaching, to rejuvenate the country through science and education is our task. With the main theme of “improving the teaching quality and to train the first-rate talents”, we seek after a set of educational models and methods fit for our university to assure the sustained and steady enhancement of teaching quality. In 1997, we are honored as “ Outstanding University of Undergraduate and Continuing Education” by the Ministry of Education. Advanced teaching methods, modernized teaching environment, fair strength in running the school, all this contribute to the rising fame of our university which attracts numerous excellent senior high school students and young people to get enrolled in. As you sow, you will gain, the employment rate of our graduates keeps high over 94%, and in recent years, our students have also achieved excellent results in competitions and matches either in Beijing or nationwide.

For the past decade, the scope of scientific research has become wider and broader. With the steady improvement of the research level, we have also started a new way in the industrialization of scientific research. We have assumed various tasks including National Hi-tech Plan “863 Program”, scientific program and vital programs with natural science fund offered by National Planning Committee and Science and Technology Committee. In recent 3 years, the number of the three searching papers—SCI, EI, ISTP has increased by 58.6%. In 2001, our science park was awarded University Science Park of Beijing.

BJTU is one of the first universities authorized by the central government to enroll overseas students. So far, we have trained over 2,600 foreign students and visiting scholars from as many as 40 countries and regions including Asia, Africa, Europe, America and etc. we have successively established cooperative relations with over 40 universities in America, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Japan, Russia, Canada, Korea, Ukraine, Singapore and etc, and cooperate with Siemens, Alstom, Intel, Cisco and other internationally famous Hi-tech corporations. Furthermore, we have employed over 1,000 famous experts and professors from 20 countries and regions to visit and teach in our university, and about 30 renowned scholars take the posts of honorary professors and advisory professors, and in turn, we have sent about 500 teachers and students to attend in advanced studies abroad. We have also either held or sponsored several international academic symposiums.

In 1996, thousands of alumni from around the world gathered in Beijing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Jiaotong University. Mr. Jiang Zemin, President of the People’s Republic of China and a distinguished alumnus of Jiaotong University, wrote down his very inspiring best wishes to BJTU, “Carry on the efforts and build the university into a first-class one in the world.” He then wrote the name for the newly-built main building –“Siyuan Building”.

At the threshold of the 21st century, with the spirit of solidarity, diligence, practicality and innovation as well as humility and wariness, pioneering and enterprising, BJTU is marching ahead towards the goal of becoming a first-class socialist university nationally and well-known internationally. BJTU in the new century must have an even brighter future!

The University In Beijing China Introduction:

Beijing Technology Business University
Central University for Nationalities
Beijing Language and Culture University
China Agricultural University
Brief Introduction of University of Science and Technology Beijing
China University of Geosciences
Central University of Finance and Economics
Beijing Normal University
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
China University of Political Science and Law
Beihang University
Renmin University
Tsinghua University
Peking university

Northeastern University (NEU) is located in Shenyang of Liaoning Province, the center of economy, culture and transportation in Northeast China. The campus with the total-floor space of 750,000 square meters covers 1.98 million square meters, Mr. Chang Hsueh-liang, the well-known marshal who was praised as “hero of ages” by the late Premier Zhou Enlai,is the honorary president and chairman of the board of trustees of the University.

Northeastern University was founded in April of 1923. After over seventy years’ development, it has become a nationally strategic university with outstanding academic programs in the engineering sciences and strong academic programs in physical and social sciences, and law and business administration sciences. The University is one of the 33 universities with graduate Schools in the nation. It has been approved by the state as one of the first group of “211 Project” universities which enjoy privileged construction.

Northeastern University is operated directly under the Ministry of Education. The University adopts the management system of university and Schools. It has the School of Liberal Arts and Law, the School of Business Administration, the School of Sciences, the School of Resources and Civil Engineering, the School of Materials Science and Metallurgy, the School of Mechanical Engineering, the School of Information Science and Engineering, the School of Gold, and the Department of Foreign Languages, the Department of Physical Education, as well as Graduate Schools, the School of Adult Education, the Qinhuangdao Branch, the Liaoning Branch, and the NEU Continuous Education Center of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry. The University has designed 46 undergraduate programs, 53 master’s degree programs, and 23 docdoral degree programs. It has two key programs at the national level and nine key programs at the ministerial level. Pste-doctoral circulating stations have been established for the five top-rate disciplins.

When Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang held the position of president in 1928, NEU attracted a large amount of distinguised scholars such as Zhang Shizhao, Luo Wengan, Liang Shujue, Huang Kan, Liu Xian Zhou, Liang Shicheng, Zhuan Changgong, Feng Zhuxun, Song Junfu, Wu Guanyin, Hu Shiken, Lin Shun, Jin Shuliang, who used to teach at NEU. Among the current faculty body of 1950, there are 245 full professors, 706 associate professors, including five academicians of China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering, two academicians of foreign academies of sciences, seven members of the Discipline Evaluation group of the State Council, four distinguished trans-century professors appointed by the State Education Commission, and eighty Ph. D. advisers.

After over 70 years’ development, NEU has perfected a complete system of education: undergraduate, master’s degree, doctoral degree, post-doctoral programs, foreign student, adult education, the continuous education. The University has total student body of 20621, including 1266 master’s degree students and 541 doctoral degree students. Since its founding over 70 years ago, NEU has trained more than 110,000 students, some of which have emerged as academicians, leading experts, leaders at provincial or ministerial-level, managers of large-scale state-own enterprises, and outstanding people in the sectors of education, academy, industry, business, sports, culture.

NEU is the cradle of high-level personnel and the base of scientific research. Since it successfully invented tht first analogue computer of china in 1958, NEU has always committed itself to promotion of scientific and technological advances in China. The University has 28 research institutes, 109 laboratories and five experimental centers for teaching and research. It also has two national engineering research centers, three provincial engineering research centers, and one nationally strategic laboratory. The library, with a floor space of 21,800 square meters, holds more than 1.65 million volumes and 3,000 periodicals in various languages. The Northeast China’s network center of the China Education and Research Computer Network is located on the campus. The access to INTERNET is available through the campus LAN.

While it utilizes the advantage of training of qualified personnel and scientific research, the University attaches importance to the commercialization of high and new technology. Represented by NEU Software Group with NEU-Alpine company as its core business, the success of many high and new technology enterprise at NEU indicates that NEU has become one of the important based of high and new technology in China. The NEU Software Park with a total investment of 500 million RMB yuan and a land of 500,000 square meters will become the largest development base for software in China.Since the policy of reform and openness was practiced in China, NEU has made a great progress in terms of cultivation of qualified personnel, scientific research, and transfer of high and new technology, which indicated that NEU is striding towards a research-education university.

Since 1986, the University has undertaken 9056 research projects from the National 863 High Tech Project, the National Climbing Project, national key research projects, international cooperative projects, and community and enterprise research projects. Among the completed research projects, 900 have been awarded kpriaes at international, national, provincial or ministerial levels and 250 have been granted patents. Over 15,0900 academic papers and 359 academic works have been published. The research fund of the University exceeded 100 million RMB Yuan in 1995 and in 1996. NEU ranks the fifth and sixth respectively in the National Scientific and Technological Advancement Prize and the National Investion Prize among its counterparts in China.

Northeastern University attaches importance to international exchange. Since 1978, NEU has set up in ter-university relations of academic exchange with over 50 universities and research from more than twenty countries and regions, including the US, Japan, Russia, UG, France, Italy, Germany, Republic of Korea, Canada, Singapore, Australia, and Taiwan, Hong Kong. The University has set up comprehensive relationships of cooperation with over 1500 research institutes, enterprises and local governments, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fujian Province, and Baoshan Steel Complex in Shanghai. More than Two thousand six hundred and thirty-one foreign experts have been invited to the University for lectures, cooperative research and other academic activities. One hundred and eighty Chinese and foreign well-known scholars, which include Professor Chen-Ning Yang and Professor Qian Weichang, have been invited as either NEU honorary or concurrent professors. Over one thousand eight hundred faculty mermbers have been set abroad to 17 countries and regions to give lectures, conduct cooperative research, participate in conferences and do advanced studies. In recent years, over 20 large international conferences have been sponsored or organized by NEU.

Following the wave of the reform and openness in China, the University with a patriotic tradition and academic style of “devotion, reality, solisarity, and creativity” will make itself an excellent university of national and international recognition in the early 21st century, based upon the integration of education, tesearch and business and aided by its convenient location in Northeastern Asia Economic Rim and the historic opportunity of “211 Project”.

East China Normal University (ECNU) was founded in October 1951 on the site of Great China University with most of its faculties from Great China University joined by some faculties from a number of other universities such as Fudan University. In 1972, East China Normal University was renamed Shanghai Normal University, when other four institutes including Shanghai Teachers Institute, Shanghai Education Institute, Shanghai Physical Education Institute, and Shanghai in-Service Teachers Institute were merged with it. In July 1980, it regained its original name of East China Normal University as the other four institutes separated again and resumed their original status one after another in 1978.

Over fifty years of development has shaped East China Normal University into one of the key institutions of higher learning under the direct auspices of the Ministry of Education, influential both at home and abroad. The University has 15 full-time schools, namely School of Humanities, School of Educational Science, School of Educational Administration, School of Preschool Education and Special Education, School of Foreign Languages, School of Business , School of Law and Politics, School of Life Science, School of Physical Education and Health Care, School of Science and Engineering, School of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, School of Information Science and Technology, School of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language,School of software engineering and the Vocational College. These schools consist of 35 departments offering 55 undergraduate programs, 5 of which, i.e. Chinese, History, Mathematics, Geography and Psychology, are on the list of State Training and Research Bases for Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences.

Besides, East China Normal University has 6 state key programs, 1 state key laboratory, 3 key laboratory under the Ministry of Education and 5 key research bases for humanities and social sciences approved by the Ministry of Education, and over 40 research institutes and a number of multi-disciplinary research, experiment, computing and testing centers. The Graduate School offers 73 doctoral programs, 118 Master’s programs (including Master’s Degree of Education and MPA), and has 10 mobile post-doctoral research stations. In addition, the University has Web School of Education, College of Continuing Education and International College of Chinese Culture. Among the total staff of over 4,100, there are nearly 1,400 full-time teachers, including 6 national academicians and nearly 1,100 professors and associate professors, many of whom enjoy high reputation in their respective academic circles.

(Source: East China Normal University)

Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) was founded in Yan’an in 1940. BIT is a national key university, an open, international and research-oriented university of science, engineering and humanities with science and engineering as the focus. It is one of the first universities to run a graduate school and receive privileged fund from the central government in “the 7th, 8th and 9th Five Year Plan.”  BIT is also one of the national “Project 211” universities receiving preferential support from the state. In 2000, BIT was listed in “Plan 985,” which gives priority for development by Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND), Ministry of Education (MOE) and Beijing Municipal Government. In 1999, BIT passed the evaluation for “Outstanding in Undergraduate Program” sponsored by MOE. BIT ranks among the first-class universities for its high educational and research quality, strong faculty teams, and academic programs with distinctive characteristics.

Dalian University of Technology (DUT)is located in the beautiful coastal city of Dalian, in northeastern China’s Liaoning Province. It is one of the key universities under the direct leadership of the State Ministry of Education. The campus is green, shady and peaceful. Many state leaders have visited the university and enjoyed its beauty.

Having experienced the severe trials of over half a century, and having gone through the persistent efforts of several generations, DUT has developed into a comprehensive university of science and technology. Engineering is DUT’s main concentration, with other departments including applied sciences and economic management sciences, as well as humanities disciplines, which include the social sciences and law.