Northeast Electric Power University

Northeast Electric Power University is located in the beautiful Jilin City, Jilin Province. The school is a key university in Jilin Province. It was founded in 1949 and is the first electric power engineering school founded by the Communist Party of China. It was named Jilin Electric Power College in 1958 and renamed Northeast Electric Power College in 1978. It was originally affiliated with the Ministry of Electric Power and the State Power Corporation. Since 2000, it has implemented a management model of "co-construction by the central and local governments, with local management as the main focus". In 2005, the school was renamed Northeast Electric Power University. In 2012, the school was selected as a key university in the national "Basic Capacity Construction Project for Colleges and Universities in Central and Western China".

The school insists on talent cultivation, scientific research, social service, cultural inheritance and innovation as its own responsibility, actively adapts to the needs of the national power industry and the economic construction of Jilin Province, and has formed a relatively complete discipline system with power characteristics as the main feature and multi-disciplinary cross-integration. The school has a total of 14 colleges and 51 undergraduate majors, covering 8 disciplines of engineering, science, management, literature, law, economics, education, and art. The school is a doctoral degree authorization unit, with 3 doctoral degree authorization first-level disciplines in electrical engineering, power engineering and engineering thermal physics, and control science and engineering, energy power doctoral professional degree authorization category, and 2 postdoctoral mobile stations; it has the right to recommend master's students, and currently has 15 master's degree authorization first-level disciplines, covering 62 master's degree authorization second-level disciplines, and 10 master's professional degree authorization categories; it has 9 high-level disciplines with Jilin Province characteristics, including 4 first-class disciplines, 4 advantageous and characteristic disciplines, and 1 emerging interdisciplinary discipline. The school currently has more than 22,000 full-time students.

The school has more than 1,500 faculty members and more than 600 senior professionals, including 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (dual appointment), 3 national outstanding professional and technical talents, 3 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, 5 national candidates for the Hundred Thousand Talents Project, 38 recipients of the State Council's special government allowance, and 1 national teaching master. It has 2 innovation teams of the "Changjiang Scholars and Innovation Team Development Program of the Ministry of Education", 2 national teaching teams, and 1 of the first "National Huang Danian-style Teacher Teaching Team of Colleges and Universities".

The school adheres to the central position of teaching work and actively builds and continuously optimizes the innovative talent training system. There are 5 national characteristic majors, 4 national quality courses, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, and 10 Jilin Province Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers. In recent years, the school has won 3 national outstanding teaching achievement awards. The school is a national college student cultural quality education base, a national social sports talent training and scientific research base, the first batch of national engineering practice education center construction units, the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" pilot colleges and universities, and a national professional and technical personnel continuing education base.

The school has always adhered to the policy of scientific and technological innovation facing the world's scientific and technological frontiers, the main battlefield of the economy, and the major needs of the country, and continuously improved the level of academic research and scientific and technological innovation capabilities. The school currently has 2 national and local joint engineering laboratories, 2 key laboratories (engineering research centers) of the Ministry of Education, 1 National University Science and Technology Park, 5 Jilin Province Major Demand Collaborative Innovation Centers, 1 Jilin Province International Science and Technology Cooperation Base, and 30 Jilin Province key laboratories, engineering research centers, and liberal arts bases. In recent years, the school has undertaken more than 2,500 scientific research projects of various levels and types represented by national key R&D plans, national major science and technology projects, national major scientific instrument and equipment development projects, and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation; won 4 second prizes for national science and technology progress, more than 150 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards such as the Jilin Province Science and Technology Special Contribution Award and the Jilin Province Achievement Transformation Contribution Award; authorized more than 600 invention patents, and made important contributions to promoting scientific and technological progress and the construction and development of the power industry and regional economy.

The school has carried out various forms of scientific and academic exchanges with universities or research institutions in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Russia, South Korea, Germany and other countries. In 1998, it was approved to train foreign students. In 2000, the State Council Degree Office approved the school to cooperate with Utah State University in the United States to hold an undergraduate education program in international economics and trade. In 2012, the Ministry of Education approved the school to cooperate with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom to hold an undergraduate education program in electrical engineering and automation. In 2011, the school was approved as an implementing institution for the National Scholarship Council's young backbone teachers' overseas training program. In 2013, the university was approved by the Ministry of Education to become a Chinese government scholarship institution for international students.

In recent years, the university has been awarded the titles of National Civilized Unit, National Civilized Campus, National Advanced Unit for Open and Democratic Management of Factory Affairs, National Model Collective for National Unity and Progress, National Model Workers' Home, "Top 50 Universities with Typical Experience in Graduate Employment", and Advanced Grassroots Party Organizations in Jilin Province. A large number of advanced teacher groups such as National Advanced Workers, National Outstanding Science and Technology Workers, National Advanced Individuals in the Construction of Workers' Professional Ethics, National March 8 Red Flag Bearers, and National Outstanding Ideological and Political Workers have emerged, as well as outstanding college students represented by the National University Student Self-improvement Star Model.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the university aims to run a university that satisfies the people and cultivate qualified builders and reliable successors of the socialist cause. It will implement the strategy of "strengthening the university with talents, giving priority to quality, continuous and rapid development, characteristic development, and open cooperation", continue to emancipate the mind, keep pace with the times, and innovate, and make unremitting efforts to build a distinctive high-level applied research university.