Hebei University of Technology

Hebei University of Technology is a provincial public university based in Tianjin, China, affiliated with Hebei Province and co-funded by the Hebei Provincial Government, the Tianjin Municipal Government and the Ministry of Education.河北工业大学是位于中国天津的一所省属公立大学，隶属河北省，由河北省人民政府、天津市人民政府和教育部共建。

It was founded in 1903 as Peiyang Technical School, one of China's earliest institutions of industrial higher education, and adopted its present name in 1995.学校创办于1903年，前身为北洋工艺学堂，是中国最早的工业高等教育机构之一，1995年改为现名。

It is a Project 211 and Double First-Class Construction university, with electrical engineering as its national world-class discipline.学校是国家「211工程」和「双一流」建设高校，电气工程为国家世界一流学科。

History

• In 1901 Yuan Shikai became Viceroy of Zhili and launched the Beiyang New Policies in Tianjin, and in 1902 he adopted Zhou Xuexi's proposal for a Zhili Industrial Bureau with an attached industrial school and ordered Tianjin prefect Ling Fupeng to draft its charter.1901年，袁世凯出任直隶总督兼北洋大臣，在天津推行北洋新政，1902年采纳周学熙关于设立直隶工艺总局并附设工艺学堂的建议，命天津知府凌福彭拟定学堂章程。
• Ling Fupeng hired the Japanese engineer Fujii Tsunehisa as chief instructor and chose a site at Caochang Nunnery east of the Gongyuan examination hall in the old city of Tianjin.凌福彭聘请日本工学士藤井恒久担任总教务长，选址天津老城贡院以东的草厂庵。
• On 16 February 1903 Yuan Shikai approved the charter and the budget, and on 19 March 1903 the Peiyang Technical School opened with 30 students selected from 200 to 300 applicants.1903年2月16日，袁世凯批准章程与经费，同年3月19日北洋工艺学堂开学，从两三百名报考者中录取30人。
• The school began with chemistry, dyeing and weaving, and general subjects on a three-year programme and added workshops for chemistry and machinery that formed one of China's earliest university-run factories.学堂初设化学、染织及普通三科，学制三年，并修建化学场和机器场，形成中国最早的校办工厂之一。
• Zhou Xuexi served as director-general of the school and argued that craft cannot flourish without learning and learning cannot be shown without craft, the origin of the university's engineering-and-learning ethos.周学熙兼任学堂总办，主张「工艺非学不兴，学非工艺不显」，这成为学校「工学并举」办学理念的源头。
• In 1904 the school was renamed Zhili Higher Industrial School under the new national school regulations, and in 1907 its first 50 students graduated, with 14 selected for further study in Japan.1904年，学堂遵学部章程更名为直隶高等工业学堂，1907年首届50名学生毕业，其中14人被选派赴日本深造。
• In 1908 it moved to a new campus beside the Sun family garden on Huangwei Road in Hebei New District, by then enrolling more than 200 students taught by 13 instructors, five of them Japanese, and offering six departments that covered chemistry, machinery, chemical manufacturing, chemical specialty, machinery specialty and drawing.1908年，学校迁入河北新区黄纬路孙家花园旁的新校舍，当时学生已增至200余人，有教司13人，其中日本教司5人，并设化学科、机器科、化学制造科、化学专科、机器专科、绘图科六科。
• In 1912 the school became the Zhili Higher Industrial School, in 1913 the Zhili Public Industrial Specialized School, and in 1914 it suspended its mechanical section for lack of funds, transferring those students to Nankai Middle School.1912年学校改称直隶高等工业学校，1913年更名为直隶公立工业专门学校，1914年因经费困难停招机械科，原有学生转入南开中学。
• In 1929 it was upgraded to the Hebei Provincial Industrial Institute, offering four-year programmes in chemical manufacturing, electromechanical engineering and municipal water conservancy under dean Wei Yuanguang.1929年，学校升格为河北省立工业学院，设化学制造、机电工程、市政水利三系，学制四年，魏元光任院长。
• In 1931 the former Beiyang Iron Works site of 20 mu, with 44 workshops and 34 dormitories, was transferred to the institute as a branch campus for its mechanical and electrical departments.1931年，北洋铁工厂旧址20亩及厂房44间、宿舍34间划拨学院作为分院，供机电系使用。
• In 1934 the institute opened a hydraulics department and joined the Beiyang Institute of Technology, the North China Hydraulic Commission and five other agencies to build China's first hydraulic experiment station, completed in November 1935.1934年，学院开设水利学系，与北洋工学院、华北水利委员会等七个单位合作设立中国第一水工试验所，该所于1935年11月落成。
• On 28 July 1937 Japanese forces occupied Tianjin, the campus was wrecked, the hydraulic station was bombed and the institute suspended classes for eight years, with its buildings turned into a Japanese army hospital.1937年7月28日天津沦陷，校舍遭破坏，水工试验所被炸毁，学院停办八年，校舍被日军改作陆军医院。
• In 1938 teachers and students formed the Gongzi Tuan unit under the North China People's Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Committee and joined the East Hebei resistance forces.1938年，部分师生组成华北人民抗日自卫委员会下属的「工字团」，参加冀东抗日联军。
• In 1946 the institute reopened after eight years with five four-year departments in chemical, mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and textile engineering plus a vocational department, holding its opening ceremony on 21 October.1946年，学院停办八年后复校，设化学工程、机械工程、电机工程、水利工程、纺织工程五个四年制系及高级职业部，10月21日举行开学典礼。
• On 2 June 1951 Minister of Education Ma Xulun signed the merger of Beiyang University and Hebei Institute of Technology into Tianjin University, effective 1 August 1951, with the inauguration held on 26 September.1951年6月2日，教育部部长马叙伦签发文件，将北洋大学与河北工学院合并为天津大学，自8月1日起生效，9月26日举行成立典礼。
• In 1958 Hebei re-established the Hebei Institute of Technology in Tianjin with 19 professors and lecturers and 30 young teachers transferred from Tianjin University and Nankai University, plus more than 50 new graduates.1958年，河北省在天津恢复重建河北工学院，从天津大学、南开大学抽调19名教授和讲师、30名青年教师，并分配50余名应届毕业生任教。
• After a planned move to Handan was abandoned in 1962, the institute was merged into the Tianjin Institute of Technology, which then had five departments, 19 specialties, 4,884 students, 3,380 staff and 978 full-time teachers.1962年迁往邯郸的计划取消后，河北工学院并入天津工学院，合并后的天津工学院设5系19个专业，在校生4,884人，教职员工3,380人，专任教师978人。
• In 1965 the Ministry of Higher Education selected the Tianjin Institute of Technology as one of 60 national industrial schools piloting a half-work half-study system, and classes stopped in 1966 at the start of the Cultural Revolution.1965年，高等教育部确定天津工学院为全国60所实行半工半读教育制度的高等工业学校之一，1966年文化大革命开始后学校停课。
• In 1969 the school began a wartime dispersal to Shexian in the Taihang Mountains, and the first group of 1,570 teachers and students left Tianjin on 5 November, although the move was never completed.1969年，学校为战备疏散迁往太行山区的涉县，11月5日第一批1,570多名师生离津，但搬迁始终未能完成。
• On 29 November 1971 the Tianjin Institute of Technology was renamed Hebei Institute of Technology.1971年11月29日，天津工学院改名为河北工学院。
• In 1978 president Pan Chengxiao wrote to Deng Xiaoping arguing against another relocation, and in June 1979 Hebei and Tianjin decided that the institute would remain in Tianjin, with the Handan campus transferred to the Hebei Coal College in 1980.1978年，院长潘承孝致信邓小平陈述搬迁利弊，1979年6月河北省与天津市决定学校继续在天津办学，邯郸校址于1980年转交河北煤矿学院。
• In 1992 Hebei approved a Langfang branch, which enrolled its first students that year and held its opening ceremony on 14 October, giving the institute its first campus outside Tianjin.1992年，河北省批准学校在廊坊设立分院并于当年招生，10月14日举行首届学员开学典礼，这是学校在天津以外的第一个校区。
• In February 1995 the State Education Commission approved the name Hebei University of Technology, the new name was inaugurated on 28 April and Jiang Zemin inscribed it.1995年2月，国家教委批准河北工学院更名为河北工业大学，4月28日新校名启用，江泽民题写了校名。
• In 1996 the university was listed in the first group of Project 211 institutions, and in 2004 it marked its centenary with a major campus celebration.1996年，学校入选首批「211工程」重点建设高校，2004年举行建校百年纪念活动。
• In December 2014 Hebei, Tianjin and the Ministry of Education signed a joint construction agreement, and in 2020 the university opened a Finland campus with Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology.2014年12月，河北省、天津市与教育部签署共建协议，2020年学校与拉彭兰塔工业大学合作设立芬兰校区。
• In September 2021 the Arizona Industrial College, run with the University of Arizona, opened in Beichen, and in January 2021 the independent City College became part of the new Hebei Petroleum University of Technology.2021年9月，学校与美国亚利桑那大学共建的亚利桑那工业学院在北辰校区开学，同年1月独立学院城市学院转设为河北石油职业技术大学。
• On 15 October 2023 the university celebrated its 120th anniversary, having grown from a 30-student technical school into a university with more than 30,000 students.2023年10月15日，学校庆祝建校120周年，从仅有30名学生的工艺学堂发展为在校生超过3万人的大学。

Academics

• In 2021 the university had 21 teaching institutions and offered 62 undergraduate majors, mainly in engineering but also in economics, management, literature, law and art, with schools of electrical engineering, materials science, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and economics and management among them.2021年，学校设有21个教学机构，开设62个本科专业，以理工为主，兼有经济、管理、文学、法学和艺术类专业，其中包括电气工程、材料科学、化学工程、机械工程、土木工程和经济管理等学院。
• Thirty of its majors are national first-class undergraduate major construction points, and electrical engineering is its single national world-class discipline.学校有30个专业列入国家级一流本科专业建设点，电气工程是其唯一的国家世界一流学科。
• It holds two national key disciplines, electrical machines and apparatus and materials physics and chemistry, along with three Hebei world-class discipline projects and seven Tianjin key disciplines.学校拥有电机与电器、材料物理与化学2个国家重点学科，以及3个河北省世界一流学科建设项目和7个天津市重点学科。
• Engineering, materials science and chemistry are ranked in the top 1 percent of the Essential Science Indicators worldwide.学校的工程学、材料科学和化学3个学科进入基本科学指标数据库全球前1%。
• The university awards bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees across seven discipline categories, with research concentrated in electrical equipment, materials, chemical engineering and mechanical engineering.学校在7个学科门类下授予学士、硕士和博士学位，研究集中于电气装备、材料、化工和机械工程领域。
• It employs about 2,700 staff, including nearly 1,600 full-time teachers, among them 20 national-level talents and more than 320 holders of provincial or ministerial expert titles.学校有教职员工2,700余人，其中专任教师近1,600人，包括国家级人才20人和320余名省部级以上专家称号获得者。
• Enrolment stands at about 23,000 full-time undergraduates and 7,500 postgraduate students.学校有全日制本科在校生约23,000人，研究生7,500余人。
• Its teaching strength includes three state-level teaching teams, two innovative research teams of the Ministry of Education and five provincial teaching teams.学校拥有3个国家级教学团队、2个教育部创新团队和5个省级教学团队。
• The State Key Laboratory of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, co-built with the Ministry, supports research on electrical apparatus, insulation and intelligent grids.省部共建电工装备可靠性与智能化国家重点实验室支撑电气装备、绝缘与智能电网研究。
• The university established a National Defense Science Institute and obtained qualification to conduct military research, extending its engineering work into defense technology.学校设立国防科技学院并取得军工科研资质，将工程研究拓展到国防科技领域。
• It operates 17 provincial research institutes together with a key laboratory and an engineering research center that serve its applied research programmes.学校设有17个省级研究所，以及重点实验室和工程研究中心，支撑应用研究项目。
• Teaching and research equipment is valued at 372 million RMB, and the library on the Beichen campus holds 1.88 million books.学校教学科研仪器设备总值3.72亿元，北辰校区图书馆藏书188万册。
• Its school-run factory produced China's first thyristor static excitation device in 1979, and two of the largest excitation units at the Gezhouba hydropower station were made there.1979年，校办工厂研制出中国第一套可控硅静止励磁装置，葛洲坝电厂两台最大的励磁装置即由该厂制造。
• With Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology in Finland the university runs English-taught bachelor's programmes on campuses in Lappeenranta and Lahti.学校与芬兰拉彭兰塔工业大学合作，在拉彭兰塔和拉赫蒂两个校区开设英语授课本科项目。
• The Arizona Industrial College, created with the University of Arizona, opened in September 2021 and teaches engineering programmes in Beichen for Chinese and international students.学校与亚利桑那大学共建的亚利桑那工业学院于2021年9月开学，在北辰校区面向中外学生开设工程类专业。
• HEBUT has exchange agreements with universities in more than 60 countries and regions, runs over 20 exchange programmes and has hosted 500 international students while sending more than 800 students abroad.学校与60多个国家和地区的大学签订交流协议，开展20余个交流项目，已接收500名国际学生，并派出800多名学生出国学习。
• Its applied research and teaching are organised around the engineering-and-learning model, in which classroom study is combined with work in school-run factories and industrial partners.学校的应用研究与教学围绕「工学并举」模式组织，将课堂学习与校办工厂及企业实践相结合。

Campus

• The university has three campuses, Beichen and Hongqiao in Tianjin and Langfang in Hebei, with the Beichen campus serving as the main site for undergraduate teaching.学校拥有天津北辰、天津红桥和河北廊坊三个校区，其中北辰校区是本科教学的主校区。
• The Beichen campus covers 2,500 mu at 5340 Xiping Road in Shuangko town, next to the entrance of the Jinbao expressway, and it is the largest of the three campuses.北辰校区位于北辰区双口镇西平道5340号，占地2,500亩，紧邻津保高速公路入口，是三个校区中面积最大的一个。
• The Hongqiao campus covers about 1,000 mu beside the Peach Blossom Dike of the North Canal and is divided into East, South and North courts along Dingzigu No. 1 Road and Guangrong Road.红桥校区占地约1,000亩，位于北运河畔桃花堤南，沿丁字沽一号路与光荣道分为东院、南院和北院。
• The East Court of the Hongqiao campus stands on the former site of Beiyang University, one of the institutions with which HEBUT merged in 1951.红桥校区东院位于原北洋大学旧址之上，北洋大学是1951年与学校合并的院校之一。
• The Langfang branch, approved in 1992, was the university's first campus outside Tianjin and has been called the Langfang International Campus since 2023.廊坊分校于1992年设立，是学校在天津以外的第一个校区，2023年起称为廊坊国际校区。
• The Dingzigu library was completed in October 1986, and its name board was inscribed by the bridge engineer Mao Yisheng.丁字沽校区图书馆于1986年10月建成，馆名由桥梁工程专家茅以升题写。
• The Beichen library, designed by the Tongji University Architectural Design and Research Institute, was begun in 2014 and opened in 2018 with a floor area of 13,100 square metres and a brick-red polyhedral facade.北辰校区图书馆由同济大学建筑设计研究院设计，2014年开工，2018年投入使用，建筑面积13,100平方米，外表为砖红色多面体。
• Outside Tianjin the university maintains the Finland campus in Lappeenranta, opened in 2020, and the Arizona Industrial College in Beichen, opened in 2021.在天津之外，学校设有2020年启用的芬兰拉彭兰塔校区，以及2021年在北辰校区开学的亚利桑那工业学院。

Reputation

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Hebei University of Technology is placed in the 501-600 band.在2026年软科世界大学学术排名中，河北工业大学位列第501-600名区间。
• The university does not appear in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校未进入2027年QS世界大学排名。
• It is not included in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.学校未进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• It is ranked 1,021st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities list.学校在2026-2027年度U.S. News全球大学榜单中位列第1,021名。
• HEBUT was admitted to the first group of Project 211 universities in 1996, a national programme launched in 1995 to strengthen about one hundred key universities, and it is part of the Double First-Class Construction.学校于1996年入选首批「211工程」高校，该工程于1995年启动，重点建设约一百所高校，学校同时进入「双一流」建设行列。
• It is co-funded by Hebei Province, Tianjin Municipality and the Ministry of Education under a tripartite agreement signed in December 2014, a structure that reflects its position as Hebei's engineering university located in Tianjin.2014年12月，河北省、天津市和教育部签署三方共建协议，这一格局体现了学校作为驻津的河北省属工科大学的定位。
• Three of its disciplines rank in the global top 1 percent of the Essential Science Indicators, supporting its standing in engineering and materials research.学校3个学科进入基本科学指标数据库全球前1%，支撑其在工程与材料研究领域的地位。
• Its engineering reputation rests on a continuous record from China's first hydraulic experiment station in 1935 to excitation equipment for the Gezhouba hydropower station in 1979.学校的工程声誉建立在从1935年中国第一水工试验所到1979年葛洲坝水电站励磁装置的连续记录之上。
• The university traces an unbroken 120-year history from 1903 and describes itself as one of China's earliest schools for training industrial personnel.学校自1903年以来延续120年办学历史，自称为中国最早的工业人才培养学校之一。

Student life

• About 23,000 full-time undergraduates and 7,500 postgraduates study across the Tianjin and Langfang campuses.约23,000名全日制本科生和7,500余名研究生在天津和廊坊校区学习。
• Students choose from 62 undergraduate majors, 30 of which are national first-class major construction points.学生可从62个本科专业中选择，其中30个为国家级一流本科专业建设点。
• The motto is 勤慎公忠, rendered as diligence, prudence, public spirit and loyalty, and the school colour is industrial blue.校训为「勤慎公忠」，校色为工业蓝。
• The university anniversary falls on 19 March, the date of the 1903 opening, while the annual celebration is held on the second Sunday of October.学校纪念日为3月19日，即1903年开学之日，年度庆祝日则为10月的第二个星期日。
• The 120th anniversary celebration on 15 October 2023 brought alumni back to the Beichen and Hongqiao campuses.2023年10月15日的120周年校庆吸引了校友重返北辰与红桥校区。
• Students can join the half-work half-study tradition that began when the school was chosen for the national pilot in 1965, working in campus factories and industrial placements.学生可以参与1965年学校入选全国试点时开启的半工半读传统，在校办工厂和工业岗位实习。
• Undergraduates may spend part of their studies at the Finland campus in Lappeenranta, where programmes are taught in English.本科生可赴芬兰拉彭兰塔校区学习部分课程，该项目以英语授课。
• The Arizona Industrial College enrols students in Beichen and offers engineering degrees developed with the University of Arizona.亚利桑那工业学院在北辰校区招生，提供与美国亚利桑那大学共同开发的工程学位项目。
• Student housing, canteens and sports facilities are distributed across the Beichen, Hongqiao and Langfang campuses, which together accommodate more than 30,000 students.学生宿舍、食堂和体育设施分布在北辰、红桥和廊坊三个校区，共容纳3万余名学生。

Notable people

• Yuan Shikai, as Viceroy of Zhili, ordered the creation of the school in 1902 and approved its charter and budget in February 1903.袁世凯以直隶总督身份于1902年下令创办该校，并于1903年2月批准学堂章程与经费。
• Zhou Xuexi, director of the Zhili Industrial Bureau, served as the school's director-general and promoted the idea that craft and learning must support each other.直隶工艺总局总办周学熙兼任学堂总办，倡导工艺与学问相互支撑的理念。
• Ling Fupeng, the Tianjin prefect, drafted the school charter, selected its site and served as its first director-general in 1903.天津知府凌福彭拟定学堂章程、选定校址，并于1903年出任学堂首任总办。
• Wei Yuanguang led the institution from 1926 and, as dean after the 1929 upgrade, shaped its four-year programmes in chemical, electromechanical and hydraulic engineering.魏元光自1926年起主持校务，1929年升格后任院长，推动化学制造、机电工程和水利工程四年制课程建设。
• Lu Yincheng preserved the institute's seal in the British concession during the 1937 occupation and returned as president when the school reopened in 1946.1937年天津沦陷期间，路荫柽将学院公章转移至英租界保存，1946年复校后出任院长。
• Pan Chengxiao, an automotive and internal combustion engine educator, served as president from 1958 and later as honorary president, and his 1978 letter to Deng Xiaoping helped keep the school in Tianjin.汽车与内燃机教育家潘承孝自1958年起任院长，后任名誉校长，其1978年致邓小平的信促成学校留在天津办学。
• Yan Weili was the last president of Hebei Institute of Technology in 1994 and the first president of Hebei University of Technology after the 1995 rename.颜威利是1994年河北工学院最后一任院长，也是1995年更名后河北工业大学首任校长。
• Jia Qinglin, born in 1940 and a graduate of the university, served as chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 2003 to 2013.学校校友贾庆林生于1940年，于2003年至2013年任中国人民政治协商会议全国委员会主席。
• Wang Xuejun, another alumnus, served as governor of Anhui Province from 2013 to 2016.另一位校友王学军于2013年至2016年任安徽省省长。
• Li Shutong, the artist and Buddhist monk, taught at the Peiyang Higher Industrial School in 1910.艺术家、僧人李叔同于1910年在北洋高等工业学堂任教。
• Jiang Shengjie, a 1934 graduate and nuclear engineer, became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice minister of the nuclear industry.1934届毕业生、核工程专家姜圣阶当选中国科学院院士，并任核工业部副部长。
• Ke Jun, a materials physicist and historian of science and technology, is counted among the university's alumni and was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.材料物理及科学技术史学家柯俊是学校校友，并当选中国科学院院士。