North China Electric Power University

North China Electric Power University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, and is a key university in the national "211 Project" and "985 Project Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform". In 2017, the school entered the ranks of national "Double First-Class" construction universities, focusing on the construction of energy and power science and engineering disciplines, and fully opened a new journey to build world-class disciplines and high-level research universities.

The school was founded in Beijing in 1958 and was originally named Beijing Electric Power College. The school has long been under the management of the national power department. In 2003, the school was transferred to the management of the Ministry of Education. It is now jointly built by the State Grid Corporation of China, China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd., China Huaneng Group Co., Ltd., China Datang Group Co., Ltd., China Huadian Group Co., Ltd., State Energy Investment Group Co., Ltd., State Power Investment Group Co., Ltd., China Three Gorges Corporation, China General Nuclear Power Group Co., Ltd., China Power Construction Group Co., Ltd., China Energy Construction Group Co., Ltd., Guangdong Energy Group Co., Ltd. and 12 super large power groups and the China Electricity Council. The school is located in Beijing and has a Baoding campus, and the two places implement integrated management. The school currently has more than 3,000 faculty and staff, more than 24,000 full-time undergraduate students, and more than 12,000 graduate students. The school covers an area of ​​more than 1,600 acres and a building area of ​​more than 1 million square meters.

For more than 60 years, the school has fully implemented the party's education policy, implemented the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, and adhered to the Huadian spirit of "self-improvement, unity and progress, love for the school and dedication, and pursuit of excellence", and cultivated a large number of energy and power talents with both moral integrity and ability. The school has always been active in the forefront of scientific and technological innovation, focusing on serving national strategies and industry needs, and has overcome many technical difficulties in the development of my country's power industry, playing an indispensable and important role in promoting the advancement of power science and technology. After entering the new century, the school has implemented the policy of "discipline-based school, talent-based school, scientific research-based school, and characteristic development", seized opportunities, and achieved leapfrog rapid development.

The school has colleges such as the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the School of Energy and Power and Mechanical Engineering, the School of Control and Computer Engineering, the School of Economics and Management, the School of New Energy, the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering, the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, the School of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, the School of Mathematics and Physics, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Marxism, the School of Energy Internet, and the School of Artificial Intelligence, with 67 undergraduate majors. It has two national key disciplines, "Power System and Automation" and "Thermal Engineering", and 25 provincial and ministerial key disciplines; in the fourth round of discipline evaluation, the two disciplines of electrical engineering and power engineering and engineering thermophysics were ranked A and A- respectively; six disciplines, "Engineering", "Computer Science", "Environment/Ecology", "Material Science", "Chemistry" and "Social Science", entered the top 1% of ESI in the world, among which the discipline of "Engineering" entered the top 70 and top 1‰ in the world; it has 6 postdoctoral research stations, 7 first-level doctoral degree authorization points, 23 first-level master's degree authorization points and 13 professional degree authorization categories such as Master of Energy and Power, Master of Electronic Information, Master of Engineering Management, and Master of Business Administration, forming a complete education system for cultivating undergraduates, masters and doctors.

The school has a high-level faculty team with positive and enterprising spirit, excellent quality and reasonable structure. There are 1,991 full-time teachers, including 420 senior positions and 722 associate senior positions. There are currently 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 10 dual-appointed academicians, more than 100 other high-level talents, and several high-level research teams.

The school takes talent training as its central task, and has formed the talent training characteristics of "solid foundation, emphasis on practice, strong ability, and innovation". It has become the first batch of universities to implement the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, and initiated the establishment of the "Electric Power Industry Excellent Engineer Training School-Enterprise Alliance". The school currently has 15 national first-class majors, 11 national characteristic majors, 4 national strategic emerging industry-related majors, 12 national first-class courses, 2 national teaching teams, 1 national teaching master, 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 national engineering practice education centers, 3 national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, and 1 national talent training model innovation experimental zone.

The school actively participates in the construction of the national innovation system and has achieved remarkable results in important fields such as new energy, ultra-high voltage, smart grid, clean coal power, and nuclear power. It now has 3 national-level science and technology innovation platforms, 1 national-level international science and technology cooperation base, 6 higher education discipline innovation and talent introduction bases, and 29 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology platforms and research bases. The school has been selected as a national demonstration base for cultivating innovative talents. Since the "15th Five-Year Plan", it has undertaken more than 3,700 vertical projects such as the National Key R&D Program, the National Science and Technology Major Project, "973", "863", the National Science and Technology Support Program, and the National Natural Science Foundation, and has won more than 400 national and provincial and ministerial science and technology progress awards. The research funding has grown rapidly, and the three major international search rankings of scientific and technological papers are among the top universities directly under the Ministry of Education.

Relying on the University Council platform, the school continues to deepen industry-university-research cooperation, and has reached strategic cooperation relations with more than 100 large energy and power companies at home and abroad, jointly building a number of key school-enterprise cooperation platforms such as the "Smart Grid Collaborative Innovation Center", "Smart Power Generation Collaborative Innovation Center", and "Energy Internet College", jointly undertaking major R&D projects, and accelerating the development and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements; the school has built a multi-faceted government-industry-university-research cooperation platform, signed strategic cooperation agreements with more than 20 local governments, and deepened exchanges and cooperation around strategic emerging industries, and achieved remarkable results in promoting regional scientific and technological innovation and promoting local economic development; the school actively promotes inter-school cooperation, and as the main initiator, participates in the establishment of the Beijing High-tech University Alliance to achieve the sharing and complementarity of advantageous resources among universities and promote inter-school collaborative innovation.

The school is fully committed to promoting the internationalization of education, building a world-class university partner network and a "Belt and Road" university partner network, comprehensively carrying out student exchanges, scientific research cooperation and other cooperation projects, establishing Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, and improving the scale and quality of international students in China. The school actively implements the national "Belt and Road" initiative, takes the initiative to undertake national diplomatic tasks, and undertakes a number of national foreign aid training projects; it has signed a memorandum of understanding on the cooperation of the "Belt and Road" Energy College with 15 overseas universities including the Moscow Power Engineering Institute of Russia; it serves as the Chinese leading institution in the energy direction of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization University and establishes the Shanghai Cooperation Organization University Energy Think Tank; the Western Kentucky Confucius Institute established in the United States is the largest Confucius Institute in North America.

In November 2017, the school held its second party congress and planned the school's development blueprint for the next period of time: after about five years of construction, the overall level of the "Energy and Power Science and Engineering" discipline will enter the world's first-class ranks, realize the substantial transformation to a research university, and initially build a distinctive high-level research university. On this basis, it will take another 10-15 years, by about 2035, the overall level of the "Energy and Power Science and Engineering" discipline will enter the world's first-class ranks, and the goal of building a distinctive high-level research university will be fully realized, laying a solid foundation for building a world-class university. At the same time, it was clarified that the overall development idea of ​​the school is to adhere to "one fundamental", closely follow the "two major tasks", grasp the "three orientations", and highlight the "four key points", namely, adhere to the fundamental of the party's leadership, closely follow the two major tasks of cultivating morality and improving quality, grasp the three key orientations of reform and innovation, characteristic development, and open schooling, and highlight the four key points of discipline construction, team building, scientific and technological innovation, and cultural construction, so as to drive the overall level of the school to improve comprehensively.

In October 2018, the school gathered the great strength of all Huadian people and successfully held a 60th anniversary celebration with rich connotations, great significance, and far-reaching influence. By holding the 60th anniversary innovation and development conference, re-compiling the "School History", and selecting Huadian figures and outstanding alumni for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the school, the school demonstrated its achievements, carried forward the spirit of Huadian, expanded its social influence, and gathered development forces. In 2019, the school took strengthening the party's political construction as the guide, took the theme education of "not forgetting the original intention and keeping the mission in mind" as the main line, took the ideological and political education of the National Day parade as the starting point, and focused on promoting comprehensive reforms within the school with top-level design. We made in-depth planning and comprehensive deployment, and focused on promoting the implementation of work. The ideals and beliefs of all teachers and students in the school are more firm, the sense of mission and responsibility is stronger, the awareness of hard work and entrepreneurship, and overcoming difficulties is more strengthened, and the political character of loyalty, cleanness and responsibility is more solid.

Standing at a new starting point for the future and facing a prosperous new era, the school will be guided by Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, thoroughly implement the spirit of the National Education Conference, follow the "nine persistences" as the fundamental principle, accelerate the promotion of "double first-class" characteristics and high-quality construction, and strive to cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor. In the process of higher education reform and development, write the "endeavor pen" of Huadian people, and strive to build the school into a distinctive high-level research university as soon as possible! Continue to make new and greater contributions to Huadian to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!