Hebei University

Hebei University is a "co-constructed" university by the Ministry of Education and the Hebei Provincial People's Government, and a first-level university in the construction of a national first-class university supported by Hebei Province.

The school was founded in 1921 and was originally named Tianjin Technology and Business University. The school is located at No. 141 Machang Road, Tianjin. At the beginning of its establishment, the school was established as an undergraduate system and named as a university. Adhering to the school motto of "educating promising young people in China, running a university that cultivates both morality and intelligence, and promoting China's modernization", it is committed to cultivating business talents. In 1933, the school was renamed Tianjin Technology and Business College, and the school motto of "seeking truth from facts" was established during this period. During the Anti-Japanese War, the school did not avoid disasters, but stayed in Tianjin and ran schools in adversity. It brought together a large number of famous teachers and giants, and enjoyed the reputation of "a prestigious university in the north, and a towering industry and commerce university". Later, the school went through different periods of Private Jingu University, National Jingu University, Tianjin Normal College, and Tianjin Normal University. In 1960, the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government decided to build a comprehensive university named after the province, so Tianjin Normal University was rebuilt into a comprehensive university and named Hebei University. In 1970, it moved to Baoding City, Hebei Province. In 2005, Hebei Provincial Workers' Medical College and its affiliated hospital were merged into Hebei University. Although the school has changed its name several times and has been tossed around, its history of running schools has never been interrupted, and it has developed into an influential comprehensive university.

The construction and development of the school has been strongly supported by the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Government, the Ministry of Education and other national ministries and commissions. In 2002, it became one of the five universities in the country that were key supported by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education. In 2005, it became a provincial-ministerial co-construction university jointly built by the Hebei Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education. In 2012, it became one of the 14 universities selected for the "Project to Improve the Comprehensive Strength of Colleges and Universities in Central and Western China". In 2016, it became a key university in the "One Province, One School" in the central and western regions of the country, and in the same year it was listed as a first-class university and a first-class discipline construction university with key support by Hebei Province. In 2018, the Ministry of Education and the Hebei Provincial People's Government signed the "Agreement on the Ministry-Provincial Co-construction of Hebei University", and it became one of the national "Ministry-Provincial Co-construction" universities. In 2020, Hebei Province formulated an implementation plan to support the ministry-province co-construction of Hebei University. Taking the "Ministry-Provincial Co-construction" as an opportunity, the school connects with Hebei Province's cultural tourism industry, pharmaceutical industry and modern green industry, and focuses on the construction of the Yanzhao Culture Discipline Group and the Life Science and Green Development Discipline Group, and has made important progress in the protection and development of Yanzhao culture and the ecological governance of the Baiyangdian Basin.

The school has a complete range of disciplines, distributed in 12 categories: philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, and art. There are 95 undergraduate majors, 1 national key (cultivation) discipline, 17 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, 47 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, 33 types of master's professional degree authorization categories, 11 postdoctoral research mobile stations, and 1 postdoctoral research workstation. Three disciplines, including chemistry, materials science, and engineering, are ranked in the top 1% of the ESI world rankings.

The school has a complete education system for cultivating bachelors, masters, and doctors. There are more than 28,000 undergraduates and 11,000 doctoral and master's students. It has 1 national teaching team, 2 national teaching masters; 24 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 13 first-class undergraduate courses; 3 national ideological and political demonstration courses; 4 national "new engineering" projects, 5 "new liberal arts" projects; 14 national "quality engineering" projects such as experimental teaching demonstration centers and characteristic majors, 12 national "undergraduate teaching engineering" projects such as professional comprehensive reform pilot and excellent talent training plan, 2 national makerspaces; 3 majors have passed the professional certification of the Ministry of Education. The school has built a national college student cultural quality education base, a national professional and technical personnel continuing education base, a Chinese Yan'an spirit education base, and a national language and writing promotion base. It is a typical demonstration university for graduate employment in the country, a typical university for innovation and entrepreneurship in the country, the first batch of national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and the first batch of national "one-stop" student community comprehensive management model construction pilot universities.

The school insists on strengthening the school with talents and implements the "Kunyu Scholars" support plan. There are 3,400 faculty members, including 2,080 full-time teachers, 60% of whom have doctoral degrees; there are 37 national outstanding talents such as academicians of the two academies, national outstanding young scientists, candidates of the "Ten Thousand Talents Program", national teaching masters, candidates of the National "Million Talents Project", young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, and experts with special allowances from the State Council; there are 204 high-level talents at the provincial and ministerial levels such as Yanzhao Scholars and provincial outstanding experts. At present, 5 scholars of the school have been selected into the Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholars List, and 18 scholars have been selected into the list of the top 2% of scientists in the world.

The school has built 3 national and local joint engineering laboratories (centers), 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 1 key research base of the Ministry of Education in humanities and social sciences, 1 national key laboratory co-built with enterprises, and 2 co-built research institutes. At the same time, it has 26 key laboratories (bases) and engineering laboratories in Hebei Province, 24 key research bases (centers, think tanks) of humanities and social sciences in Hebei Province, 4 "2011" collaborative innovation centers in Hebei Province, and 1 collaborative innovation center co-built by the province and the ministry. In recent years, the university has undertaken 7 major projects of the National Social Science Fund and 3 major research projects of the Ministry of Education. 3 social science research results have been selected into the "National Philosophy and Social Science Achievement Library"; in the China Nature Index ranking of Nature magazine, it ranks 84th among domestic universities.

The university insists on opening up education to the outside world, and has established cooperative exchanges with more than 100 universities in the world. It has the first non-independent legal person Sino-foreign cooperative education institution in Hebei Province, as well as Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, and has hosted 3 Confucius Institutes in South America, Asia and Africa. The school has built a talent training system for international students covering bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. It is a pilot university of the "Training and Research Center for Overseas Students of the Ministry of Education", the first university in Hebei Province to accept Chinese government scholarship students to come to China, the first undergraduate academic mutual recognition course (ISEC) project construction university in Hebei Province, and a university selected as the "Chinese Education Base" by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council.

Hebei University has gone through a glorious journey of 100 years since its inception. Over the past 100 years, generations of scholars have worked hard to cultivate talents and build a good foundation. Generations of students have worked hard to learn and serve the country. Former scholars represented by Hua Nangui, Ma Feng, Gu Sui, Wu Yuru, Pei Xuehai, Zhang Gong, Gao Jingying, Teng Dachun, Zhang Bo, Lei Shiyu, Zhan Yan, Qi Xia, etc. have worked hard to teach here, cultivate talents, and have trained more than 400,000 outstanding talents, making positive contributions to serving the country's prosperity, national rejuvenation, and people's happiness.

Standing at a new historical starting point, Hebei University will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, adhere to the school-running philosophy of "quality-based school, talent-based school, characteristic-based school, service-based school, and law-based school", accelerate the construction of "Double First-Class", enhance the ability of talent training, scientific research, social services, cultural inheritance and innovation, and international exchanges and cooperation, and strive to build a high-level comprehensive university with "distinctive characteristics and international reputation" as soon as possible.