Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (hereinafter referred to as BUAA) was founded in 1952. It was formed by merging the aeronautical departments of eight universities at that time, namely Tsinghua University, Beiyang University, Northwest Polytechnic Institute, Xiamen University, Sichuan University, North China University of Technology, Yunnan University and Southwest Polytechnic Institute. After two adjustments, it is the first aerospace university in New China and is now affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The school is located in Beijing and is divided into the Xueyuan Road Campus and Shahe Campus, covering an area of ​​more than 3,000 acres and a total construction area of ​​more than 1.7 million square meters. Since its establishment, Beihang University has been a key university in the country. It is one of the first 16 key universities in the country, and one of the first 22 universities in the country to establish graduate schools after the restoration of the degree system in the 1980s. It was the first to enter the "211 Project", the "985 Project" in 2001, and the first batch of "2011 Plan" National Collaborative Innovation Center in 2013. In 2017, it was selected into the list of national "double first-class" construction universities. The 16th Party Congress of the school proposed to build a world-class university rooted in China as the development vision and goal.

In recent years, the school has focused on improving the level and pattern of school management, vigorously promoting the discipline situation of aerospace and information integration, continuously optimizing the innovative talent training system, actively promoting the construction of a first-class faculty team, accelerating the transformation and development of scientific research innovation, pragmatically carrying out high-level international exchanges and cooperation, vigorously promoting the improvement of school conditions and people's livelihood, and comprehensively strengthening party building and ideological and political work. The development of various undertakings has achieved outstanding results. The comprehensive school-running ability and core competitiveness have been continuously enhanced, and it has ranked among the first echelon of high-level universities in China, and its international influence has been significantly improved.

The school has prosperous disciplines and distinctive characteristics. The discipline construction policy of "top engineering, first-class science, fine liberal arts, and superior medical engineering" has been established. There are 10 disciplines in engineering, science, management, liberal arts, law, economics, philosophy, education, medicine and art. There are 8 first-level national key disciplines (tied for 7th among universities nationwide), 28 second-level national key disciplines, 10 Beijing key disciplines, 10 national defense characteristic disciplines, and 14 Class A disciplines, among which aerospace science and technology, instrument science and technology, materials science and engineering, and software engineering are A+ disciplines. There are 74 undergraduate majors, 25 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degrees, 39 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees, and 23 postdoctoral research mobile stations. The school highlights the basic status of disciplines, builds a first-class discipline system that integrates aerospace and information, crosses science, engineering and liberal arts, and combines medicine and engineering, and forms a benign discipline ecology led by Mount Everest, clustered by peaks, and expanded on the plateau. It has obvious comparative advantages in the fields of aviation, aerospace, power, information, materials, instruments, manufacturing, management, etc., forming two major advantageous disciplines of aerospace and information technology, and the main disciplines of national defense science and technology have reached the first-class level in China. The ESI rankings of the six disciplines of engineering, materials science, physics, computer science, chemistry, and general social sciences are in the top 1% in the world, and engineering and materials science are in the top 1‰ in the world. In the 2020 "Soft Science World Class Discipline Ranking", the discipline of aerospace engineering has been ranked first in the world for the third consecutive year.

The school has a gathering of famous teachers and outstanding people. At present, the total number of faculty and staff of the school has reached 4,266, including 2,368 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, 72.5% have senior professional titles and 86.64% have doctoral degrees. It brings together outstanding talents represented by 26 academicians of the two academies, 63 professors of the "Yangtze River Scholars Program", 59 winners of the "National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund", 36 leading talents of the "Ten Thousand Talents Program", 5 national-level teaching masters, and outstanding young talents represented by 74 winners of the "National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund" and 28 young scholars of the "Yangtze River Scholars Program". Many national first prize winners, field experts and model chief designers have emerged in the talent team, as well as a large number of young and promising experts and scholars with profound attainments.

The school cultivates talents and cultivates people with morality. There are more than 37,000 full-time students, of which the ratio of undergraduates to postgraduates is 1:1, and there are more than 2,300 foreign students studying for degrees. In recent years, the average college entrance examination scores of recruited students from various provinces have ranked in the top 3‰, and many provinces have entered the top 1‰ of the province. The overall quality of science and engineering students in the school ranks 9th in the country. The school adheres to the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, highlights the central position of talent cultivation, combines the cultivation of top talents with the strengthening of patriotic responsibility, cultivates talents in knowledge creation, creates knowledge in talent cultivation, and strives to cultivate leading leaders with lofty ideals, first-class knowledge, a broad mind, and truth and reality. Create first-class undergraduate education, promote large-scale enrollment, expand the right to choose majors independently, highlight solid foundation, personalization, tutor system, small-class training, and improve the full credit system. Promote general education and college education, and give play to the leading and radiating role of experimental classes and honorary colleges such as Hua Luogeng Class, Wu Daguan Class, Humanities and Social Sciences Experimental Class, and Higher Polytechnic Institute, Sino-French Engineering College, etc. Build a large classroom of knowledge learning, ability practice, and international exchange, and strengthen interdisciplinary practice, social practice, and innovation and entrepreneurship practice. Graduate education adheres to the national strategic needs, based on the international academic frontier, reforms and innovates the education and teaching mechanism, focuses on implementing the action plans of gathering cutting-edge high-quality students, building a high-quality curriculum system, deepening international exchanges, coordinating education with multi-party efforts, and building excellent innovation incentives and excellent tutor teams, and strives to create a talent training quality brand of "focusing on innovation, strong capabilities, and high standards", and explores customized high-level talent joint training models such as large aircraft classes, engine classes, and information security classes. It has 6 national-level talent training model innovation experimental areas, 5 experimental teaching demonstration centers, 5 teaching teams, 36 national-level first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 8 provincial and ministerial-level first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, and 24 national-level first-class undergraduate courses. Talent training has achieved fruitful results, and a large number of student scientific and technological innovation works have emerged, represented by the "Beihang 1", "Beihang 2", "Beihang 3" and "Beihang 4" sounding rockets. Since 2010, nearly 400 graduate students have won provincial and ministerial-level or higher science and technology achievement awards, including more than 70 national science and technology awards. The number of papers published in top international academic journals has increased significantly, and the number of national honorary titles such as the National Engineering Master's Internship Practice Outstanding Achievements Winner and the National Engineering Master's Degree Winner with Outstanding Contributions is in a leading position. The long-standing Beihang "Feng Ru Cup" competition has been held for 30 consecutive sessions, attracting more than 70,000 students to carry out innovative research. The school is the only university in the national "Challenge Cup" competition that has won the "Champion Cup" for 16 consecutive sessions, and hosted the 16th "Challenge Cup" competition in 2019. Students' innovative and entrepreneurial works have won the gold medal of the China "Internet +" College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for three consecutive sessions, winning one championship and one runner-up. Spring flowers and autumn fruits, fragrant peaches and plums are all over the world. In the 69 years since its establishment, Beihang University has trained a large number of academic elites, business talents and pillars of governance for the country, and has sent more than 200,000 outstanding graduates to the country's mainstream industries and backbone units. The employment destination implementation rate of graduates has remained above 99%. In the past six years, 18 alumni of Beihang University have been elected as academicians.

The school serves the country and is committed to innovation. Guided by the country's major strategic needs, the school strengthens basic, forward-looking and strategic high-tech research, guides and supports the convergence of innovative elements to key bottleneck technologies, and deeply integrates with industry, academia, research and application, creates top innovation platforms and first-class scientific research teams, and the total amount of scientific research continues to expand. The per capita scientific research funding ranks first among universities in the country. There is 1 national laboratory-National Laboratory of Aeronautical Science and Technology (preparatory), 9 national key laboratories (including 4 national defense science and technology key laboratories), 6 national engineering research centers, 3 Beijing high-tech innovation centers, and more than 70 provincial and ministerial key laboratories; there are 9 National Natural Science Foundation of China innovation research groups, 12 Ministry of Education innovation teams, and 10 national defense science and technology innovation teams. The school emphasizes independent innovation, strengthens collaborative innovation, actively builds a national innovation platform, forms a large team, undertakes major scientific research projects, and major scientific and technological achievements continue to emerge. In the more than 60 years since its establishment, Beihang has created more than 40 first-in-China scientific research results, and has always been at the forefront of domestic universities in the field of cutting-edge technology research. The successful development and launch (test flight) of various types of aircraft have filled many domestic gaps, such as China's first light passenger aircraft "Beijing No. 1", Asia's first sounding rocket "Beijing No. 2", China's first unmanned aircraft "Beijing No. 5", "Bee" series aircraft, coaxial twin-rotor unmanned helicopters, etc. In recent years, the school has continued to strengthen its ability to serve the country's strategy, and has made breakthroughs in research in bottleneck areas such as aviation power, key raw materials, and core components. Many landmark achievements have been directly applied to national defense construction. The domestically produced large aircraft C919, which the school team participated in the demonstration and assisted in the development, successfully made its first flight, and successfully developed my country's first new near-space airship. A certain type of unmanned aircraft designed and developed by the school has been finalized and performed important tasks, and it ranked first in the unmanned aircraft team in the military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Since the 15th Five-Year Plan, Beihang University has won more than 70 national three major science and technology awards, including 15 first-class national science and technology awards and 3 second-class national natural science awards in the past 16 years, creating a record of a university winning national high-level science and technology awards in succession, and is praised by the society as the "Beihang model" of scientific and technological innovation. The number and quality of the school's academic papers have grown in a coordinated manner, and it has achieved a breakthrough in publishing articles in top journals such as "Nature" and "Science". The school vigorously promotes collaborative innovation and carries out strategic cooperation with key national backbone enterprises such as aviation, aerospace, engines, and ships. The "Advanced Aviation Engine Collaborative Innovation Center" was recognized in the first batch of the "2011 Plan". The China Aerospace Engineering Technology Development Strategy Research Institute was established in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Engineering to create the first national think tank in the field of aviation engineering technology in my country. Fully integrated into the construction of the capital's national science and technology innovation center, creating a "knowledge economy circle around Beihang University", and Beihang University Science and Technology Park was recognized as an excellent national university science and technology park.

The school is open to the world and integrates. By implementing the "UPS International Development Strategy", building an international exchange and cooperation network and platform for Beihang University, forming an all-round, multi-level and wide-ranging opening-up pattern, the university has effectively enhanced its international competitiveness and influence. It has established long-term and stable cooperative relations with more than 200 famous universities, first-class research institutions and well-known multinational companies around the world. It advocated the launch of the "International Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics Education" and joined international alliances and academic organizations such as the International Astronautical Federation, the "T.I.M.E. Alliance" and the "China-Russia Comprehensive University Alliance". It has established a number of high-end international cooperation platforms such as the "International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Spin Electronics" and the "China-UK Joint Laboratory for Space Science and Technology". It co-founded the Sino-French School of Engineers with the French Central University Group, integrating the engineering education advantages of China and France, and is known as a model of Sino-French higher education cooperation. It established the "International General Engineering College" and strived to build a new high-level international general engineering education demonstration college. It cooperated with the Zhejiang Provincial Government, the Hangzhou Municipal Government and the French National Civil Aviation University to prepare for the establishment of the Sino-French Aviation University. Implement the "Global Campus Plan", create high-level international talent training programs, vigorously carry out various overseas learning programs such as student exchange, dual degree, joint training, international summer school, etc., extend the Beihang campus to every corner of the world, and let Beihang students fully enjoy the global high-quality education resources. Attract outstanding students worldwide, and the scale, quality, training level and education level of international students are among the best in the country. Approved to establish the "United Nations Affiliated Asia-Pacific Regional Center for Space Science and Technology Education", "Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization Education and Training China Center" and "Beidou International Exchange and Training Center". The internationalization of the faculty team continues to deepen, the results of international scientific research cooperation are evident, and 10 national "Higher Education Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Bases" have been established.

The school culture educates people and inherits innovation. The school promotes excellent traditional culture, inherits and carries forward the Beihang spirit of "serving the country in aerospace and daring to be the first" and the Beihang culture of "openness, tolerance, pragmatism and responsibility", and builds consensus with the "Long Eagle Aspirations", "Chinese Heart" and "Gyro Dream" of three generations of Beihang people, and creates the spiritual identity of serving the country in aerospace with the red gene of listening to the party and following the party. We have a deep understanding of the role of new media in promoting the construction of university culture, and have carefully created a new media communication matrix with the official microblog "Hang Xiaoxuan" as the core. We focus on educating people with culture and using cultural venues such as the Aviation and Space Museum, Concert Hall, Art Museum, School History Museum, Art Garden, Zhizhen Shared Space, Yongman Theater, and Art Space as our bases, and use the "Touching Beihang", Beihang Lecture Hall, I Love My Teacher, Liberal Arts Classroom, Elegant Art Entering Campus, Resident Artist/Writer Program, and College Student Art Troupe as carriers to carry out campus cultural activities in various forms, healthy and uplifting, and elegant styles, forming a brand of traditional inheritance, a typical guiding brand, a cultural landscape brand, and a humanistic nourishment brand, creating a first-class university cultural atmosphere with excellent teaching style, rigorous learning style, beautiful landscape, and harmonious people and landscape, which plays an exploratory and exemplary role in universities across the country. In recent years, the school has won 2 special prizes and 2 first prizes for outstanding achievements in cultural construction in colleges and universities across the country, 2 cultural education demonstration projects, and 2 characteristic display projects, and has won the titles of Capital Civilized Campus, Top Ten Beautiful Campuses of Beijing Universities, and Capital Civilized Unit Model.

The sky is high and the stars are shining. Entering a new era and writing a new chapter, the school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, strengthens the "four consciousnesses", strengthens the "four self-confidences", and achieves the "two safeguards", and comprehensively promotes the party's construction under the leadership of the party's political construction. It unswervingly strengthens the confidence in the development of a world-class university with Chinese characteristics, consciously integrates the spirit of running a school with the mission of serving the country, cultivates socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, cultivates first-class talents, makes first-class contributions, and accelerates the construction of a world-class university with Chinese characteristics, and helps realize the "Chinese Dream" of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with the "Beihang Dream"!