Beijing Institute of Technology

Beijing Institute of Technology was founded in Yan'an in 1940. It is the first university of science and engineering founded by the Communist Party of China. It is a key university built by the state in batches since the founding of New China. It was the first batch to enter the national "211 Project" and "985 Project", and the first batch to enter the A-level ranks of "world-class universities". It is now affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Comrade Mao Zedong personally wrote the name of the school, and Li Fuchun, Xu Teli, Li Qiang and other older generation proletarian revolutionaries successively served as the main leaders of the school. Over the past 80 years, Beijing Institute of Technology has always listened to and followed the Party, persisted in educating people for the Party and the country, and has embarked on a "red education road" of higher education with Chinese characteristics founded and led by the Communist Party of China, a "strengthening the army and serving the country road" based on the traditional advantages of national defense and serving the national strategy, and an "innovative development road" of openness, tolerance, integration and coordination.

Beijing Institute of Technology has grown and developed along with the development of the Party and the country's education cause. In 1949, the school moved to Beijing; in 1952, it was named Beijing Institute of Technology and became the first defense industry college in New China; in 1988, it was renamed Beijing Institute of Technology. The university currently has 21 professional colleges, 9 colleges, and 8 other teaching and research institutions such as the Institute of Frontier Interdisciplinary Sciences, the Institute of Advanced Structural Technology, and the Institute of National Security and Development. It has 27 grassroots party committees, 3 party general branches, and 3 directly affiliated party branches. There are more than 5,600 faculty and staff, including 32 academicians of the two academies, more than 350 national talent program candidates, and 6 national teaching teams; there are 13 national key laboratories and engineering research centers and 6 national experimental teaching centers. In recent years, the school has adhered to the "four orientations" and systematically built a collaborative development pattern of engineering, science, management, liberal arts, and medicine around the discipline construction policy of "top engineering, high-quality science, fine liberal arts, and emerging medical engineering". There are currently 9 disciplines, 31 first-level disciplines, including 30 first-level doctoral programs. There are 15 professional degree categories, including 4 engineering doctoral categories. 9 disciplines are among the top 10% in the country, and the weapon discipline ranks first in the country. 8 disciplines are among the world's top, and 3 disciplines are among the world's top.

Establishing morality and cultivating people, Beijing Institute of Technology inherits the red gene in comprehensively improving the quality of talent training. The school is committed to cultivating leading leaders who are "ambitious, virtuous, innovative and tolerant, and responsible for the times". Among the more than 300,000 graduates since the establishment of the school over the past 80 years, there are party and state leaders such as Li Peng, Zeng Qinghong, and Ye Xuanping, as well as more than 120 party and government leaders and generals at the provincial and ministerial levels or above; there are more than 60 academicians such as Wang Xiaomo, winner of the National Highest Science and Technology Award, and Peng Shilu, chief designer of my country's first nuclear submarine; there are a large number of leaders and outstanding builders in various industries and at all levels, and it is known as the "cradle of red national defense engineers". The school currently has more than 30,000 full-time students and 75 undergraduate majors, including 36 national first-class majors and 8 new engineering majors. Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", the school has won 6 national teaching achievement awards, 7 national excellent teaching material awards, 39 national first-class courses approved, 20 new Beijing teaching teachers, and 96 graduate students have won excellent degree theses from national societies. Approved to build a national-level entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration base, it has won the China International "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition twice and 22 gold medals; it has won 7 special prizes and 17 first prizes in the "Challenge Cup" National College Students Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition; it has won 13 gold medals in the "Challenge Cup" China College Students Entrepreneurship Plan Competition. Facing the international community, the school co-established Shenzhen BIT Moscow University with the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government and Lomonosov Moscow State University, signed school-level cooperation agreements with 362 universities in 77 countries and regions on six continents, and established student exchange programs with more than 100 partner institutions such as the Technical University of Munich, Aachen University of Technology, Bauman State University of Technology, Delft University of Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Israel Institute of Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Australian National University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, forming a global network for international talent training.

Determined to innovate, Beijing Institute of Technology has demonstrated its responsibility in building national strategic scientific and technological forces. The school has always shared the same fate with the Party and the country, and has insisted on aiming at the major strategic needs of the country and the forefront of world scientific and technological development. The school has created many "firsts" in the history of science and technology in New China: the first television transmitting and receiving device, the first two-stage solid high-altitude detection rocket, the first light tank, the first low-altitude height-finding radar, the first 20-kilometer long-range camera, etc. It represents the national level in the fields of national defense science and technology such as precision strikes, efficient destruction, mobile penetration, long-range suppression, military information systems and confrontation, and has obvious advantages in military and civilian dual-use technologies such as intelligent bionic robots, green energy, modern communications, and industrial process control. In the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the National Day, the school participated in the equipment development of 10 of the 12 air teams and 26 of the 32 ground equipment teams in the equipment review, and directly participated in a number of digital performances and simulation tasks, fireworks technology tasks, and float design and other technical support work. In major events such as the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the Beijing Olympics, the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Shanghai World Expo, and the Guangzhou Asian Games, as well as major tasks such as the rendezvous and docking of the Shenzhou XII manned spacecraft with the Tianhe core module, many technologies developed by the school have performed well. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the school's investment in science and technology exceeded 18.2 billion yuan, and a number of high-level scientific and technological achievements were produced. It led the way in winning 21 national science and technology awards, including three first prizes; it was selected as the first batch of scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer bases for higher education institutions of the Ministry of Education, and implemented a series of scientific and technological achievements transformation for national security and the people's livelihood. Six typical cases were concentrated on the National "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Exhibition.

The trumpet sounded, and Beijing Institute of Technology set sail with glory and dreams. "Yan'an roots and military industry soul" are the red genes engraved into Beijing Institute of Technology. The school motto of "morality to understand reason, learning to refine work", the school spirit of "unity, diligence, truth-seeking, and innovation", and the style of study advocated by the old president Xu Teli of "seeking truth from facts and not being self-righteous" have jointly forged the school's unique spiritual temperament and cultural core. From its birth in Yan'an in 1940 to serve the Anti-Japanese War and the founding of the country, to today in the 21st century, it has cultivated high-level talents for the construction of an innovative country; from open-air classrooms, living in caves, to modern campuses and national key laboratories. Facing the future, the school will continue to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, closely focus on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, adhere to the correct political direction of running schools, and strive to form a high-level talent training system to cultivate builders and successors of socialism with Chinese characteristics! Continue to adhere to the "four services", take root in China to build a world-class university, and provide strong support for the realization of the grand goals of the "two hundred years" and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!