Harbin Institute of Technology

On June 7, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a letter to congratulate Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) on its 100th anniversary. The congratulatory letter pointed out that Harbin Institute of Technology has a long history. Since the founding of New China, under the leadership of the Party, the school has taken root in the Northeast, dedicated itself to patriotism, and worked hard to create a large number of national heavy tools and cultivate a large number of outstanding talents, making important contributions to the Party and the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping hopes that the school will adhere to the socialist direction of running schools at a new starting point, focus on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and educating people, and continue to reform and innovate, work hard, and pursue excellence in teaching and educating people, scientific research, and other work, and strive to make new and greater contributions to the realization of the "two centenary" goals and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Guided by the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter, all HIT people are striving to create a new century of excellence with Chinese characteristics, world-class and HIT standards.

HIT is affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The school is located at No. 92 Xidazhi Street, Nangang District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. It also has campuses in Weihai City, Shandong Province and Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. The school was founded in 1920. In 1951, it was identified as one of the two model universities in the country to learn from foreign higher education models. In 1954, it entered the ranks of the first six universities in the country's key construction and was hailed as the "cradle of engineers." The school was included in the first batch of key universities in the national "211 Project" in 1996, and was identified as one of the first nine universities in the national "985 Project" in 1999. In 2000, it merged with Harbin University of Architecture, which has the same origin, to form the new Harbin Institute of Technology. In 2017, it was selected into the list of Class A universities in the "Double First-Class" construction. In 2022, 8 disciplines were selected into the new round of "Double First-Class" construction list.

The school has always adhered to the overall leadership of the Party, adhered to the socialist direction of running schools, modeled the principal responsibility system under the leadership of the Party Committee, adhered to the fundamental task of cultivating morality and educating people, adhered to the first standard of teachers' ethics and style, and formed a party building and ideological and political work tradition of "political guidance, typical guidance, brand drive, and school motto education". It was awarded the National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization four times in 1996, 2001, 2011, and 2021, and was awarded the National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee four times in 1984, 2011, 2016, and 2021. It has been awarded the National May 1st Labor Medal, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's "One Promotion and Three Excellences" Project Particularly Outstanding School and other honorary titles, and was selected as one of the first ten national model universities for party building work. The school continues to give play to the advantages of the Party-building dual innovation demonstration colleges, benchmark departments, and model branches, and constantly improves the grassroots Party-building work system of "school party committee leading, college party committee as the main body, party branch as the backbone, and party members as the masters", and continues to deepen the brand connotation of "+ branch", "model library", and "studio" ideological and political work, and build a group of high-quality theoretical propaganda groups and advanced deeds report groups. In 2021, Academician Liu Yongtan was awarded the honorary titles of "National Outstanding Communist Party Member" and "Model of the Times".

Adhering to the school motto of “strict standards and thorough work”, the university has formed the talent training characteristics of “solid foundation, strong practice, strict process and innovation”, and has trained 113 academicians of the two academies, 148 university secretaries and presidents, 122 leading cadres at or above the vice-ministerial level, 47 generals of the Republic, more than 450 chief engineers of aerospace and national defense, as well as a large number of advanced models such as recipients of the Medal of the Republic, the most beautiful strugglers in the country, national model teachers, national May 1st Labor Medal recipients, national advanced workers, the most beautiful teachers in the country, national counselors of the year, national self-improvement star models for college students, and national college students of the year, and has trained more than 300,000 outstanding talents. In recent years, the school has fully utilized the advantages of integrating science and education, industry and education, accelerated the reform of the supply side of talent training, innovated the personalized training system for top talents, strengthened the top-level design and resource supply of "five-pronged education", and innovatively launched "Academician Classes" such as Yongtan Class, Shanyi Class, Small Satellite Class, and Intelligent Robot Class, which are widely popular. The student subject competition results have ranked first in the national general college student competition list for three consecutive years, and the Lilac Student Micro-Nano Satellite Team won the China Youth May Fourth Medal.

The school vigorously continues to carry forward the "patriotic spirit of remembering responsibility and devoting oneself wholeheartedly; the truth-seeking spirit of seeking truth and being pragmatic and advocating science; the spirit of unity of embracing all rivers and collaborating to tackle key problems; the spirit of self-improvement and pioneering innovation" of Harbin Institute of Technology, adheres to the "stable introduction and training" and insists on retaining talents with career, emotion and treatment, and has built a teaching staff team with the reputation of "Eight Hundred Warriors". There are 42 academicians of the two academies (including dual appointments), 304 national high-level talents, and 225 national young talents.

The school adheres to the concept of "strengthening, precision, excellence and specialization" discipline construction, insists on strengthening engineering, strengthening science and emphasizing cross-disciplinary disciplines, and has formed a relatively complete discipline system consisting of advantageous and characteristic disciplines, basic disciplines, emerging cross-disciplinary disciplines and supporting disciplines. The school has 9 national key disciplines at the first level and 6 national key disciplines at the second level. In the third round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, the school has 10 first-level disciplines ranked in the top five in the country, among which the discipline of mechanics ranks first in the country. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, HIT has a total of 17 disciplines ranked in Class A, the discipline excellence rate (the proportion of Class A disciplines to authorized disciplines) ranks sixth in the country, the number of Class A disciplines ranks eighth in the country, and the number of Class A engineering disciplines ranks second in the country.

The school insists on resonating with the major national strategies, forming the advantages and characteristics of "based on aerospace, serving national defense, and excelling in engineering". It has established the first aerospace college in Chinese universities, launched China's first small satellite independently developed by a university, and realized the first satellite-to-ground laser link communication in China. It has also produced China's first computer that can play chess and talk, the first new-system radar, the first arc welding robot and spot welding robot, and the first nanosatellite independently designed, developed, and controlled by university students. It has realized the world's first high-orbit satellite-to-ground high-speed laser two-way communication experiment, made breakthroughs in the key technologies of the supporting structure system of the world's largest radio telescope, and supported the successful "opening" of China's "Sky Eye". The successfully developed space manipulator has realized the world's first human-machine collaborative in-orbit maintenance scientific experiment on Tiangong-2. The successfully developed new generation of magnetic focusing Hall electric thrusters has been realized in space for the first time in the world, and shape memory has been realized for the first time in the world. The on-orbit controllable deployment of polymer solar cell structures, the successfully launched "Longjiang-2" became the world's first microsatellite to independently complete Earth-Moon transfer, near-Moon braking, and circumlunar flight. The Mars rover mobile system and transfer ramp mechanism that he presided over and participated in helped "Zhurong" to achieve Mars surface patrol and exploration. A number of technical achievements supported China's first lunar sample return mission. The structure of the T cell receptor-co-receptor complex was analyzed for the first time, becoming a milestone in the field of international cell adaptive immunity research. China's first large-scale scientific project for simulating extreme space environments is being built. It has participated in 14 major national science and technology projects such as the lunar exploration project, and won the 2018 National Highest Science and Technology Award. A total of 10 projects have been selected as the top ten scientific and technological advances in Chinese universities. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, it took the lead in winning 22 national science and technology awards. Hundreds of achievements have helped China's space program for 66 years, and it has won the "Outstanding Contribution Collective Award for China's Manned Space Program" and many other awards.

Facing the new journey, Harbin Institute of Technology will always adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, be led by the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", constantly enhance the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two safeguards". Based on the "two overall situations", and bearing in mind the "major issues of the country", we are determined to create more national equipment, cultivate more outstanding talents, accelerate the construction of a first-class university with Chinese characteristics, bravely shoulder the important task of being the "vanguard" of China's first aerospace school, and strive to make new and greater contributions to the realization of the second centenary goal and the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!