Harbin Institute of Technology

The Harbin Institute of Technology, known as HIT, is a public research university in Nangang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and founded in 1920 as the Harbin Sino-Russia Industrial School.哈尔滨工业大学（Harbin Institute of Technology，简称哈工大或 HIT）是位于中国黑龙江省哈尔滨市南岗区的公立研究型大学，隶属工业和信息化部，1920 年创办时名为哈尔滨中俄工业学校。

A member of the C9 League and of Project 211, Project 985 and the Double First-Class Construction, it runs campuses in Harbin, Weihai and Shenzhen and places 190th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校是 C9 联盟成员，先后入选 211 工程、985 工程与双一流建设，拥有哈尔滨、威海、深圳三个校区，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 190。

History

• The school was founded in 1920 as the Harbin Sino-Russia Industrial School to train engineers for the Chinese Eastern Railway, with Russian as the language of instruction and two departments covering railway construction and electrical-mechanical engineering.学校 1920 年创办时名哈尔滨中俄工业学校，旨在为中东铁路培养工程技术人才，设铁路建筑与电气机械工程两科，一律以俄语授课。

• A. A. Schelokov, an expert in geodesy and road engineering, was elected the first president in September 1920, and the school opened on 17 October 1920 with 103 undergraduates, seven of them Chinese.大地测量与道路工程专家阿·阿·摄罗阔夫 1920 年 9 月受聘首任校长，学校同年 10 月 17 日开学，首届招收本科生 103 名，其中中国学生 7 名。

• The first campus occupied the former Russian consulate general building on Gongsi Street, erected in 1906 in the Art Nouveau style and now the home of the HIT Museum.创校校址设在公司街原俄国驻哈尔滨总领事馆旧址，该建筑 1906 年建成，属新艺术运动风格，现为哈工大博物馆馆舍。

• On 2 April 1922 the school was renamed the Harbin Sino-Russian Polytechnic, its departments becoming railway architecture and electromechanical engineering.1922 年 4 月 2 日学校改名哈尔滨中俄工业大学校，两科改为铁路建筑系与机电工程系。

• In February 1928 the school passed to the Special District of the Eastern Provinces and was renamed its industrial college, then that October absorbed the colleges of law and commerce, took the name Harbin Institute of Technology and came under joint Chinese and Soviet management, with Zhang Xueliang chairing the school council.1928 年 2 月学校改隶东省特别区，改名东省特别区工业大学校，同年 10 月并入法政学院与商学院，定名哈尔滨工业大学，转由中苏共管，张学良任校理事会主席。

• After Japan acquired the Soviet stake in the Chinese Eastern Railway in 1935, teaching shifted to the Japanese model, and by 1937 the school ran six departments in electrical engineering, machinery, chemistry, mining, architecture and metallurgy, all taught in Japanese under the president Masao Suzuki.1935 年日本以物资换取中东铁路苏联一方产权后，教学转向日本模式，到 1937 年学校设有电机、机械、化学、采矿、建筑、冶金六个系，全部课程以日语授课，校长由日本人铃木正雄担任。

• On 1 January 1938 the name Harbin Institute of Technology was reinstated and has been retained ever since.1938 年 1 月 1 日学校复名哈尔滨工业大学，这一校名沿用至今。

• When Japan surrendered in 1945 the school returned to joint Sino-Soviet management under the Chinese Changchun Railway, resuming classes on 6 December 1945 with Russian restored as the language of instruction.1945 年日本战败投降后，学校重归中长铁路中苏共管，同年 12 月 6 日复课，恢复俄语授课。

• In 1949 the school began recruiting graduate students from across China, making it one of the earliest institutions in the country to train postgraduates.1949 年学校开始面向全国招收研究生，是国内最早培养研究生的院校之一。

• On 7 June 1950 the Soviet government transferred the railway and the university to China, a date later fixed as the school anniversary, when the school had only about 700 teachers and students, most of them Soviet nationals.1950 年 6 月 7 日苏联政府将中长铁路与学校一并移交中国政府，该日后被定为校庆日，移交时全校师生仅约 700 人，且多为苏联侨民。

• Feng Zhongyun, governor of Songjiang Province and a Tsinghua graduate, became the first president under Chinese administration and in 1949 asked Qian Sanqiang of Tsinghua to recruit twenty teaching assistants, opening the nationwide support for HIT.清华大学毕业的松江省人民政府主席冯仲云出任移交后首任校长，1949 年委托清华教授钱三强招聘 20 名助教，开全国高校支援哈工大之先河。

• Teachers seconded from Tsinghua and other universities, among them Pan Jiluan, founder of China's welding specialty, the hydromechanics experts Xia Zhenhuan and Shi Xican and the physical chemist Xu Kang, became known as the eight hundred heroes of HIT.从清华等校借调来校的教师包括中国焊接专业创始人潘际銮、水利学家夏震寰与施熙灿、物理化学家徐康等，他们后来被称作哈工大「八百壮士」。

• In 1951 the school was designated one of two institutions to learn from the Soviet experience, the other being the Renmin University of China, and through the 1950s it engaged more than eighty experts from twenty-six Soviet universities.1951 年学校被确定为学习苏联经验的两所院校之一，另一所为中国人民大学，20 世纪 50 年代先后聘请苏联 26 所高校的 80 多名专家来校工作。

• In October 1954 it became one of the first six national key universities and the only one outside Beijing, and by 1957 it had grown to seven departments and twenty-three specialties.1954 年 10 月学校成为首批 6 所全国重点大学之一，也是北京之外唯一的一所，到 1957 年已发展到 7 个系 23 个专业。

• On Deng Xiaoping's instruction the school created a group of cutting-edge specialties in 1958, and by 1962 it had largely completed the shift from civilian to defence-oriented programmes.1958 年按邓小平指示，学校创建一批尖端专业，到 1962 年基本完成由民到军的转变。

• In 1959 the school was split into the Harbin Institute of Technology, the Harbin Institute of Architecture and Engineering and the Northeast Heavy Machinery Institute.1959 年学校拆分为哈尔滨工业大学、哈尔滨建筑工程学院与东北重型机械学院。

• During the Cultural Revolution the cutting-edge departments merged with the second department of the Harbin Military Engineering Institute and moved to Chongqing in 1970 as the Chongqing University of Technology, returning to Harbin in 1973.文化大革命期间，学校尖端专业与哈尔滨军事工程学院二系合并，1970 年内迁重庆组建重庆工业大学，1973 年迁回哈尔滨。

• The school resumed undergraduate enrolment in 1977, graduate enrolment in 1978 and doctoral enrolment in 1982, and in 1984 was again listed among the fifteen key national universities and among the first twenty-two institutions allowed to run graduate schools.学校 1977 年恢复本科招生，1978 年恢复研究生招生，1982 年开始招收博士研究生，1984 年再度列入全国 15 所重点建设院校，并成为首批获准试办研究生院的 22 所院校之一。

• The Weihai branch was founded in 1985 with the approval of the former Ministry of Astronautics and was renamed the Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, in 2002.威海校区 1985 年经原航天工业部批准创办，2002 年更名哈尔滨工业大学（威海）。

• A high-tech park was founded in 1992, the school entered Project 211 in 1996 and Project 985 in November 1999.学校 1992 年创办高新技术园区，1996 年入选 211 工程，1999 年 11 月入选 985 工程。

• In 2000 the school merged with the Harbin University of Architecture, one of the eight old schools of architecture in China, forming the enlarged Harbin campus.2000 年学校与建筑老八校之一的哈尔滨建筑大学合并，组建新的哈尔滨校区。

• In February 2002 the Ministry of Education approved the HIT Shenzhen Graduate School, creating the one university, three campuses pattern that was a first in China.2002 年 2 月教育部批准设立哈尔滨工业大学深圳研究生院，形成全国首个「一校三区」办学格局。

• In November 2003 the school became the only university to win all three honours of the China Manned Space Program, and in 2009 it joined the C9 League founded by the central government, entering the Double First-Class Construction as a Class A university in 2017.2003 年 11 月学校成为中国载人航天工程唯一同时荣获协作贡献奖、突出贡献集体奖与突出贡献者奖的高校，2009 年加入中央政府设立的 C9 联盟，2017 年入选双一流建设 A 类高校。

• In May 2020 the United States Department of Commerce added HIT to its Entity List, and in December 2025 the school signed an agreement with the Shijingshan District Government of Beijing to build the HIT Beijing Research Institute.2020 年 5 月美国商务部将哈工大列入实体清单，2025 年 12 月学校与北京市石景山区人民政府签约共建哈尔滨工业大学北京研究院。

Academics

• The Harbin campus offers eighty-six undergraduate degrees across eighteen schools, together with forty-one master's programmes, twenty-nine doctoral programmes and twenty-four postdoctoral research stations.哈尔滨校区 18 个学院开设 86 个本科专业，另有 41 个硕士点、29 个博士点与 24 个博士后科研流动站。

• Its schools cover astronautics, mechatronics engineering, material science and engineering, computer science and technology, electrical engineering and automation, energy science and engineering, electronics and information engineering, civil engineering, environment, architecture and design, transportation science and technology, chemistry and chemical engineering, economy and management, science, life science and technology, Marxism, international studies and the humanities, social science and law.学院涵盖航天、机电工程、材料科学与工程、计算机科学与技术、电气工程及自动化、能源科学与工程、电子与信息工程、土木工程、环境、建筑与设计、交通科学与工程、化工与化学、经济与管理、理学、生命科学与技术、马克思主义、国际研究以及人文社科与法学等领域。

• The Weihai campus runs ten schools and one department, offering thirty-seven bachelor programmes and sharing twenty-two master's and eighteen doctoral programmes with the Harbin campus.威海校区设 10 个学院与 1 个系，开设 37 个本科专业，与哈尔滨校区共享 22 个硕士点与 18 个博士点。

• The Shenzhen campus, based in the Shenzhen University Town, concentrates on new technology development, the industrialisation of research and postgraduate education.深圳校区位于深圳大学城，重点面向新技术开发、科技产业化与研究生培养。

• As of 2019 the Harbin campus enrolled 15,675 undergraduates, 9,680 master's students and 6,518 doctoral students, including 1,984 international students from 128 countries and regions.截至 2019 年，哈尔滨校区有本科生 15675 人、硕士生 9680 人、博士生 6518 人，其中留学生 1984 人，来自 128 个国家和地区。

• Across the three campuses the university counts 25,002 undergraduates and 12,710 postgraduates, with 2,957 faculty members.三个校区合计有本科生 25002 人、研究生 12710 人，专任教师 2957 人。

• As of March 2021 the Harbin campus had 2,978 full-time teachers, including 1,079 at professorial grade and 1,288 at associate professorial grade, with 1,481 doctoral supervisors in post.截至 2021 年 3 月，哈尔滨校区专任教师 2978 人，其中正高职称 1079 人、副高职称 1288 人，在岗博士生指导教师 1481 人。

• The staff includes thirty-nine academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, fifty-two Changjiang Distinguished Professors and fifty-three winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.师资队伍中有两院院士 39 人、长江学者特聘教授 52 人、国家杰出青年科学基金获得者 53 人。

• In the 2013 national discipline assessment sixteen first-level disciplines ranked in the national top five and twenty-five in the top ten, with mechanics first in the country.在 2013 年全国学科评估中，学校 16 个一级学科进入全国前五、25 个进入前十，力学位列全国第一。

• Its researchers produced many firsts in China: the first analog computer in 1957, the first digital computer in 1958, the first arc welding robot, the first intelligent chess computer and the first new-system radar.学校科研创造了许多中国第一：1957 年研制出第一台模拟计算机，1958 年研制出第一台数字计算机，还造出中国第一台弧焊机器人、第一台智能象棋计算机与第一台新体制雷达。

• HIT has made the largest contribution of any university to the Shenzhou and Kuaizhou spacecraft programmes, and the International Astronomical Union has named the minor planet 55838 the HIT Star.哈工大对神舟号与快舟系列飞船的贡献居全国高校之首，国际天文学联合会将第 55838 号小行星命名为「哈工大星」。

• In 2010 the Astronautics Innovation Research Center was set up with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the largest investment of its kind in China at the time.2010 年学校与中国航天科技集团公司共建航天创新研究中心，是当时国内同类建设中投入最大的平台。

• The university is one of the Seven Sons of National Defence and undertakes space and defence research covered by official secrecy.学校是「国防七校」之一，承担涉密的航天与国防科研任务。

• It hosts the Chinese secretariat of the China-Russia Engineering University Alliance founded in 2011 and opened the HIT Bauman Institute with the Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 2019.学校是 2011 年成立的中俄工科大学联盟中方常设秘书处所在地，2019 年与莫斯科鲍曼国立技术大学共建哈工大鲍曼工学院。

• The Nature Index 2025 ranked HIT twenty-seventh in Asia-Pacific and forty-sixth in the world.《自然》指数 2025 年将哈工大列为亚太第 27、全球第 46。

• The 2025 CWTS Leiden Ranking placed it fourteenth in the world by total publications.2025 年 CWTS 莱顿排名按论文总量将哈工大列为全球第 14。

Campus

• The Harbin campus covers 4.375 square kilometres at 92 Xidazhi Street in Nangang District, in the centre of Harbin.哈尔滨校区位于哈尔滨市中心南岗区西大直街 92 号，总面积 4.375 平方千米。

• It is served by HIT Station on Line 1 of the Harbin Metro, named after the university.哈尔滨地铁 1 号线设有以校名命名的哈工大站，直达校区。

• The oldest building on campus is the former school office building at 1 Fuhua Second Street, erected in 1929 as a student dormitory, a Class I protected building of Harbin that now houses the School of Humanities, Social Science and Law.校本部最古老的建筑是复华二道街 1 号的校部楼，1929 年建成时为学生宿舍，属哈尔滨市一类保护建筑，现为人文社科与法学学院所在地。

• The main teaching building, long called the Civil Engineering Building, housed the school administration until 1958.校园主楼旧称土木楼，1958 年前长期作为校部机关所在地。

• The HIT Museum at 59 Gongsi Street opened on 18 May 2010, International Museum Day, in the 1906 Art Nouveau building where the school was born, displaying more than 4,000 exhibits over 2,200 square metres.哈工大博物馆位于公司街 59 号，2010 年 5 月 18 日国际博物馆日开馆，馆舍即 1906 年建成、学校诞生的新艺术运动建筑，展示面积 2200 余平方米，展出藏品 4000 余件。

• The HIT Aerospace Museum, founded in 1986 and expanded with a new hall in 2020, offers 5,500 square metres of indoor galleries and an outdoor ground displaying a Long March 1 launch vehicle.哈工大航天馆始建于 1986 年，2020 年扩建新馆落成，室内展区 5500 平方米，室外展区陈列长征一号运载火箭等实物。

• The Weihai campus in the Torch Hi-Tech Science Park covers 1.56 million square metres with 383,000 square metres of building area.威海校区位于威海火炬高技术产业开发区，占地 156 万平方米，建筑面积 38.3 万平方米。

• It enrols 10,466 undergraduates, 542 master's students, 110 doctoral candidates and 89 international students, with 861 staff including 97 professors and 219 associate professors.威海校区有本科生 10466 人、硕士生 542 人、博士生 110 人、留学生 89 人，教职工 861 人，其中教授 97 人、副教授 219 人。

• The Shenzhen campus on Xiaqing Road in Nanshan District was formally established on 26 October 2017, and the three campuses set independent admission plans while sharing faculty, resources and degree certificates.深圳校区位于南山区夏青路，2017 年 10 月 26 日正式成立，三校区独立设立录取计划，师资与资源共享，颁发相同的学位证书。

Reputation

• HIT places 190th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, 96th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 97th in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.哈工大在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 190，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 96，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 97。

• U. S. News and World Report placed it 111th globally and third in the world for engineering as of 2024.《美国新闻与世界报道》2024 年将哈工大列为全球第 111，其工程学科居全球第 3。

• It is consistently ranked among the top ten research universities in China and first in Northeast China.哈工大稳居中国研究型大学前十，居东北地区高校首位。

• OpenAlex records 228,109 works by the university that have drawn 14,855,340 citations.OpenAlex 收录学校论文 228109 篇，被引 14855340 次。

• The university counts no Nobel laureates, its highest national honour being the Highest Science and Technology Award, which went to its professor Liu Yongtan for 2018.哈工大无人获得诺贝尔奖，学校最高级别的国家荣誉是国家最高科学技术奖，2018 年度该奖授予学校刘永坦院士。

• Alumnus Sun Jiadong, who entered HIT in 1948 and became a satellite expert, received the 2009 Highest Science and Technology Award and served as chief designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.1948 年考入哈工大的卫星专家孙家栋获 2009 年度国家最高科学技术奖，并任中国探月工程总设计师。

• In the 2026 subject rankings instruments science and technology placed first in the world, mechanical engineering third and aerospace engineering fifth.在 2026 年学科排名中，哈工大仪器科学居全球第 1、机械工程第 3、航天航空工程第 5。

• HIT has been ranked among the world's top ten universities for engineering by U. S. News since the ranking began in 2014.自 2014 年《美国新闻与世界报道》设立全球最佳大学工程学科排名以来，哈工大一直位居全球前十。

• The university is a member of the C9 League, the Excellence League and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities.学校是 C9 联盟、卓越联盟与环太平洋大学联盟的成员。

Student life

• The university motto is the Chinese phrase 规格严格，功夫到家, officially rendered as Rigor and Mastery.学校校训为「规格严格，功夫到家」，英译作「Rigor and Mastery」。

• Its school colours are HIT blue and celebration red.学校代表色为「哈工大蓝」与「庆典红」。

• The school song is the Song of HIT, with lyrics by the alumnus Liu Zhongde, a former minister of culture, and music by Liu Xijin.校歌为《哈工大之歌》，由校友、原文化部部长刘忠德作词，刘锡津作曲。

• The anniversary day falls on 7 June each year, marking the 1950 transfer of the university to the Chinese government.每年 6 月 7 日为校庆日，纪念 1950 年学校移交中国政府。

• HIT's student robotics team won the ABU Robocon championship held in Tokyo in August 2009.哈工大学生机器人队 2009 年 8 月在东京举行的亚太广播联盟机械人大赛中夺得冠军。

• Students developed the Lilac-2 nanosatellite, launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre on 20 September 2015.学生团队自主研发的「紫丁香二号」纳卫星于 2015 年 9 月 20 日在太原卫星发射中心发射升空。

• The Lilac BBS, named after the lilac, the city flower of Harbin, long served as the university's student forum.以哈尔滨市花丁香命名的「紫丁香」BBS 长期是哈工大的学生网络论坛。

• All three campuses provide student dormitories and canteens as part of their supporting facilities.三个校区均配套建设学生公寓与食堂等生活设施。

Notable people

• A. A. Schelokov, an expert in geodesy and road engineering, was elected the first president when the school opened in 1920.大地测量与道路工程专家阿·阿·摄罗阔夫在 1920 年建校时受聘首任校长。

• Liu Zhe, minister of education of the northeastern government, became president in 1928 as the first Chinese head of the school.东北地方政府国民教育部总长刘哲 1928 年出任校长，是学校历史上第一位中国校长。

• Feng Zhongyun, governor of Songjiang Province and a Tsinghua graduate, led the school through its transfer to China in 1950 and launched the nationwide support campaign.松江省人民政府主席、清华大学校友冯仲云主持了 1950 年学校移交工作，并开启全国支援哈工大的序幕。

• Han Jiecai took office as president in July 2021 and is the current head of the university.韩杰才 2021 年 7 月起任校长，是学校现任主要负责人。

• Liu Yongtan, professor of radar and signal processing and member of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, won the 2018 Highest Science and Technology Award.雷达与信号处理专家、中国科学院与中国工程院两院院士刘永坦教授获 2018 年度国家最高科学技术奖。

• Sun Jiadong, who entered HIT in 1948 and became a leading satellite expert, won the 2009 Highest Science and Technology Award and was chief designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.1948 年考入哈工大的卫星专家孙家栋获 2009 年度国家最高科学技术奖，并担任中国探月工程总设计师。

• Song Jian, an aerospace engineer and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, served as president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.航天工程专家、中国科学院院士宋健曾任中国工程院院长。

• Yang Shuzi, an engineer and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was president of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.机械工程专家、中国科学院院士杨叔子曾任华中科技大学校长。

• Chen Guangxi, a computer scientist and professor at HIT, founded the university's computer science discipline.计算机科学家、哈工大教授陈光熙创立了学校的计算机专业。

• Li Shufu, an engineering graduate, chairs the Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and Volvo Cars.工科校友李书福任浙江吉利控股集团与沃尔沃汽车董事长。

• Ma Xingrui, an aerospace engineer and former vice president of HIT, served as director of the China National Space Administration and is a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and party secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.航天工程专家、哈工大原副校长马兴瑞曾任国家航天局局长，现任中央政治局委员、新疆维吾尔自治区党委书记。

• Kong Linghui, a table tennis player from HIT, won gold medals at the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships.哈工大校友孔令辉获得奥运会与世界乒乓球锦标赛冠军。