Henan Polytechnic University

Henan Polytechnic University is a public university in Jiaozuo, Henan, China, with roots in mining education and a current profile centred on engineering, safety science and emergency management.河南理工大学是中国河南省焦作市的一所公立大学，办学源于矿业教育，现以工程、安全科学与应急管理为特色。

It traces its origin to the Jiaozuo Road and Mine School founded in 1909 and adopted its present name in 2004, having passed through the China Institute of Mining and Technology and Jiaozuo Mining College.学校起源于1909年创办的焦作路矿学堂，历经中国矿业学院、焦作矿业学院等阶段，2004年改为现名。

As of 2026 the university reports 24 colleges, 85 undergraduate majors, 3,315 staff and more than 51,000 students, with its motto "Mingde Renze".截至2026年，学校设有24个学院、85个本科专业，有教职工3315人、学生5.1万余人，校训为“明德任责”。

History

• On 25 February 1909 the Henan foreign affairs bureau and the British Peking Syndicate signed an agreement on coal mining in Jiaozuo whose eighth clause provided for a road and mine school to open that spring, tying the new school to the syndicate's colliery concessions in northern Henan.1909年2月25日，清政府河南交涉局与英国福公司签订关于焦作煤矿开采的协议，其中第八条规定当年春季开办路矿学堂，将新学堂与福公司在豫北的煤矿权益联系在一起。
• The Jiaozuo Road and Mine School opened on 1 March 1909 under the syndicate, with Tian Cheng as its first supervisor, a mining department and an initial intake of 20 students.1909年3月1日，焦作路矿学堂在福公司主持下开办，田程任首任监督，设矿务学门，首批招收学生20人。
• In 1915 Xu Yuan, Wang Jingfang and Hu Rulin negotiated with the Fu Company, and the Fu Company and the Zhongyuan Coal Mining Company jointly funded the Henan Fuzhong Mining School under the Republic's foreign affairs office, the name Fuzhong combining the two funding partners.1915年，许源、王敬芳、胡汝麟与福公司交涉，由福公司与中原煤矿公司共同筹款成立河南福中矿务学校，归外交部河南交涉署直辖，校名“福中”即取自两家出资方。
• The school was renamed the Fuzhong Mining Specialised School in 1919 and was upgraded to the Fuzhong Mining University in 1921.学校于1919年易名福中矿务专门学校，1921年升格为福中矿务大学。
• In 1931 the Ministry of Education approved its transformation into the private Jiaozuo Institute of Technology, governed by a board chaired by Liu Zhi, chairman of Henan province.1931年，经教育部批准，学校改为私立焦作工学院，成立校董会，由河南省主席刘峙任主席。
• In 1933 the institute converted its subject structure into departments of mining and metallurgy and of civil engineering, following national regulations, with the two departments covering the core fields of coal mine development.1933年，学院根据教育部规定改科为系，设置采矿冶金系和土木工程系，两系覆盖煤矿开发的核心领域。
• A 1936 reorganisation split mining and metallurgy into separate departments and divided civil engineering into road engineering and water conservancy departments, training engineers for mining, smelting, road building and water works.1936年5月，学院调整系科，采矿冶金系分为采矿系、冶金系，土木工程系分为路工系、水利系，分别培养采矿、冶炼、筑路和水利方面的工程师。
• In October 1937, as the War of Resistance spread and Japanese forces advanced into northern China, the institute moved west to Shaanxi.1937年10月，抗日战争全面爆发、日军向华北推进，学院西迁陕西。
• In July 1938 the Ministry of Education merged it with the engineering colleges of Peking University, Beiyang Institute of Technology and Northeastern University to form the National Northwest Institute of Technology, a body that later became one of the predecessors of Northwestern Polytechnical University.1938年7月，教育部将焦作工学院与北平大学工学院、北洋工学院、东北大学工学院合并，成立国立西北工学院，该院后来成为西北工业大学的前身之一。
• After the war the Jiaozuo Institute of Technology reopened temporarily at Guanlin in Luoyang in August 1946.抗战胜利后，焦作工学院于1946年8月在河南洛阳关林暂行复校。
• In September 1949 it returned to Jiaozuo and was renamed the National Jiaozuo Institute of Technology.1949年9月，学院迁回焦作，更名为国立焦作工学院。
• In January 1950 the institute was transferred to the Ministry of Fuel Industry, and the North China Coal Mining College merged into it in March.1950年1月，学院划归中央人民政府燃料工业部领导，华北煤矿专科学校于同年3月并入。
• In the summer of 1953 the Zhongnan Coal Mining School moved from Pingxiang in Jiangxi to the Jiaozuo site, reopening the old campus as the Jiaozuo Coal School.1953年夏，中南煤炭工业学校从江西萍乡迁至焦作原校址，以焦作煤矿学校之名重新启用老校园。
• In September 1950 it was renamed the China Institute of Mining and Technology, and in February 1951 its main body moved to Tianjin while teaching continued at the Jiaozuo site, the Tianjin institution later becoming the China University of Mining and Technology.1950年9月，学院改名为中国矿业学院，1951年2月主体迁往天津，焦作原校址继续办学，迁津部分后来发展为中国矿业大学。
• In September 1958 the Henan Provincial Party Committee approved the establishment of Jiaozuo Mining College to supply engineers for the province's coal industry, with Zhang Chao, Jiaozuo's party first secretary and mayor, as concurrent president.1958年9月，中共河南省委批准建立焦作矿业学院，为全省煤炭工业培养工程技术人才，中共焦作市委第一书记、市长张超兼任院长。
• The Jiaozuo Coal School merged into the college in March 1959, and in September 1959 the college came under the Ministry of Coal Industry.1959年3月，焦作煤矿学校并入焦作矿业学院，同年9月学院归属煤炭工业部领导。
• The Zhengzhou Coal Industry College merged into Jiaozuo Mining College in October 1961, enlarging its coal engineering teaching capacity.1961年10月，郑州煤炭工业学院并入焦作矿业学院，扩大了学校的煤炭工程教学力量。
• On 5 April 1995 the State Education Commission approved the restoration of the Jiaozuo Institute of Technology name, as the college expanded beyond mining into broader engineering and management programmes.1995年4月5日，经国家教委批准，焦作矿业学院恢复焦作工学院校名，此时学院已从矿业扩展到更广泛的工程与管理专业。
• In May 2004 the Ministry of Education approved the renaming of Jiaozuo Institute of Technology as Henan Polytechnic University, signalling its transition from a mining college to a provincial polytechnic university.2004年5月，经教育部批准，焦作工学院更名为河南理工大学，标志着学校从矿业学院转变为省属理工科大学。
• On 16 June 2011 the university became an institution jointly built by Henan Province and the State Administration of Work Safety, reflecting its safety engineering strengths.2011年6月16日，学校改由河南省与国家安全生产监督管理总局共同建设，体现其安全工程学科优势。
• In 2024 the university's joint-building arrangement was renewed with Henan Province and the Ministry of Emergency Management.2024年，学校改为由河南省与应急管理部共建。
• The university has announced plans for a Zhengzhou campus in Huiji District, extending its presence beyond Jiaozuo.学校已宣布在郑州市惠济区建设郑州校区的计划，将办学空间延伸到焦作之外。
• In 2009 the university marked its centenary alongside the China University of Mining and Technology, and the two institutions settled a long-running dispute over their shared Jiaozuo lineage.2009年，学校与中国矿业大学同时举行百年校庆，两校就共同的焦作办学渊源达成和解。
• A marker naming Jiaozuo the cradle of Chinese mining higher education was erected on the new campus as part of that settlement.作为和解的一部分，学校在新校区树立了“中国矿业高等教育发源地”标志。

Academics

• The university operates 24 colleges and offers 85 undergraduate majors, with 3,315 staff and more than 51,000 students as of 2026.学校设有24个学院，开设85个本科专业，截至2026年有教职工3315人、学生5.1万余人。
• It offers seven doctoral programmes and 29 master's programmes, and operates four postdoctoral research stations.学校拥有7个博士学科、29个硕士学科，并设有4个博士后科研流动站。
• Its disciplines cover science, engineering, management, humanities, law, economics, education, art and medicine, with engineering as the largest sector.学校学科覆盖理、工、管、文、法、经、教、艺术、医九个门类，其中工科规模最大。
• The School of Safety Science and Engineering, the School of Energy Science and Engineering and the School of Resources and Environment carry the university's mining and safety tradition, with safety engineering the most widely recognised of its programmes.安全科学与工程学院、能源科学与工程学院和资源环境学院承续学校的矿业与安全传统，其中安全工程是学校最广为人知的专业。
• Mechanical and power engineering, surveying and aerospace information, materials science and civil engineering are taught in dedicated schools, with the surveying school covering geodesy, remote sensing and geographic information systems.机械与动力工程、测绘与空天信息、材料科学与工程以及土木工程等学科均设有专门学院，测绘学院的教学涵盖大地测量、遥感与地理信息系统。
• Electrical engineering and automation, computer science, mathematics and information science, and physics and electronic information complete the engineering and science group.电气工程与自动化、计算机科学与技术、数学与信息科学以及物理与电子信息构成学校的理工科组群。
• Economics and management, Marxism, chemistry and chemical engineering, foreign languages and humanities and law broaden the curriculum beyond technology.经济管理、马克思主义、化学化工、外国语以及文法等领域使课程体系超出单纯的技术范围。
• The North Campus houses the School of Architecture and Art Design, the Medical School and the School of Humanities and Law.北校区设有建筑与艺术设计学院、医学院和文法学院。
• Music, physical education, emergency management and a Taiji College reflect the university's links to Jiaozuo's Chen-style tai chi heritage and its emergency response focus.音乐学院、体育学院、应急管理学院和太极拳学院体现了学校与焦作陈式太极拳传统及应急管理方向的联系。
• The Safety Technology Training College provides continuing safety training for coal mine managers and technical staff, a role linked to the university's co-building with the work safety authorities.安全技术培训学院为煤矿管理人员和技术人员提供安全继续教育，这一职能与学校同安全生产监管部门共建的背景相关。
• Its research platform count reached 75 by 2026, including a national key laboratory cultivation base specialising in gas geology and gas control and 22 provincial or ministerial key laboratories.截至2026年，学校科研平台达75个，其中包括以瓦斯地质与瓦斯治理为方向的国家重点实验室培育基地和22个省部级重点实验室。
• The university maintains 31 university-level research institutes, 37 key disciplines and nine innovation teams, which carry out applied research for the coal, safety and emergency industries.学校建有31个校级研究所、37个省部级重点学科和9个创新团队，面向煤炭、安全与应急产业开展应用研究。
• It holds 27 national teaching quality projects and two national experimental teaching demonstration centres, in electrical and electronic engineering and in engineering training.学校拥有27个国家级教学质量工程项目和2个国家级实验教学示范中心，分别位于电工电子和工程训练领域。
• Teaching and research equipment is valued at 303 million yuan, supporting 42 laboratories and centres including a network centre, an e-learning centre, a computing centre and a geology museum.学校教学科研仪器设备总值3.03亿元，支撑42个实验中心（室），其中包括网络中心、电教中心、计算中心和一座地球科学馆。
• The library holds 2.1151 million print books, 2.134 million electronic books and 52 Chinese and foreign databases, operates an automated management system and received an excellent rating in a provincial evaluation of library modernisation.图书馆藏书211.51万册，另有电子图书213.4万册，各类中外文数据库52种，全面实行自动化管理，并在省高校图书馆现代化技术应用评估中获优秀评价。
• The faculty includes about 600 professors and associate professors, and 12 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering or foreign academies, including dual appointments.学校师资中有教授、副教授等高级职称者约600人，中国科学院、中国工程院及外籍院士12人（含双聘）。
• Three Changjiang Scholars, three national Bai-Qian-Wan talent project experts and 31 experts receiving the State Council special allowance teach or research at the university, which also engages more than 200 scholars and academicians as adjunct professors.学校有长江学者3人、国家百千万人才工程入选专家3人、享受国务院特殊津贴专家31人，另聘请200余名国内外学者和院士担任兼职教授。
• Research on coal gangue utilisation places the university among the ten most productive institutions in the world in that field.在煤矸石利用研究领域，学校的论文发表量位居世界前十。
• Twenty-three majors, including electrical, mechanical, civil, materials, mining, safety and surveying programmes, admit students in the first undergraduate batch in Henan, Hebei, Anhui and Jiangxi.电气、机械、土木、材料、采矿、安全、测绘等23个专业在河南、河北、安徽和江西等省本科一批招生。
• Electrical engineering and automation, mechanical design and manufacturing, mining engineering and safety engineering offer six-year bachelor-to-master's programmes.电气工程及其自动化、机械设计制造及其自动化、采矿工程和安全工程四个专业招收六年制本硕连读。

Campus

• The university occupies two campuses in Jiaozuo, covering nearly 4,000 mu with about 1.15 million square metres of building floor area, the main campus being the larger site and containing most of the teaching buildings.学校在焦作市拥有两个校区，占地近4000亩，建筑面积约115万平方米，主校区规模较大并集中了大部分教学楼。
• Campus green space totals about 590,000 square metres, according to the university's 2026 profile.根据学校2026年的简介，校园绿化面积约59万平方米。
• The main campus concentrates the engineering, science and safety schools, the central library and the administration.主校区集中了工程、理科与安全类学院、中心图书馆以及行政机关。
• The North Campus hosts the architecture and art design, medical and humanities and law schools, giving those disciplines a separate teaching base.北校区驻有建筑与艺术设计学院、医学院和文法学院，为这些学科提供独立的教学基地。
• The campus geology museum displays mineral and fossil specimens and has hosted visits by national figures including Zhou Tienong, Zhou Guangzhao and Zhu Xun.校园内的地球科学馆陈列矿物与化石标本，曾接待周铁农、周光召、朱训等人士参观。
• The museum also serves as a science education base for young people in Jiaozuo and supports teaching in geology, mining and resource programmes.该馆同时是焦作市青少年科技教育基地，并支撑地质、采矿与资源类专业的教学。
• Sports facilities include three standard track-and-field grounds, ball courts and a student activity centre, and the university is a city node of the China Education and Research Network.校园体育设施包括3座标准田径运动场、各类球场和大学生活动中心，学校还是中国教育和科研计算机网城市节点单位。
• Student dormitories and canteens have been rated demonstration units by the Henan provincial education department, and the campus network has been named a digital campus demonstration project.学生公寓和食堂分别被评为河南省高校示范性学生公寓和示范性学生食堂，校园网也被命名为数字化校园示范单位。

Reputation

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Henan Polytechnic University is placed in the 901-1000 band.在2026年软科世界大学学术排名中，河南理工大学位列第901-1000名区间。
• The university does not appear in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.该校未进入2027年QS世界大学排名。
• It is not included in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.该校未进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities list it is ranked 1,132nd.在2026-2027年度U.S. News全球大学榜单中，该校位列第1,132名。
• Its joint-building status with the State Administration of Work Safety from 2011 and with the Ministry of Emergency Management from 2024 reflects national recognition of its safety disciplines.学校自2011年起与国家安全生产监督管理总局共建、2024年起与应急管理部共建，体现国家对其安全学科的认可。
• Safety science and engineering, mining engineering and geological resources are the disciplines most closely associated with its national profile, and the university presents itself as China's first institution of higher mining education.安全科学与工程、采矿工程和地质资源是与其国家声誉联系最紧密的学科，学校也以中国第一所矿业高等学府自居。
• The university ranks among the world's ten most productive institutions for research on coal gangue utilisation, the waste rock separated from coal during mining and washing.学校在煤矸石利用研究方面的论文产出位居世界前十，煤矸石是采煤和洗煤过程中分离出的废石。
• Its 27 national teaching quality projects and two national experimental teaching demonstration centres underpin its teaching reputation.学校拥有27个国家级教学质量工程项目和2个国家级实验教学示范中心，支撑其教学声誉。
• Twelve academicians, 37 key disciplines and 75 research platforms support its standing among Henan's provincial universities.12位院士、37个重点学科和75个科研平台支撑其在河南省属高校中的地位。
• In 2009 its centenary and the joint declaration with the China University of Mining and Technology confirmed Jiaozuo's place in Chinese mining education history.2009年的百年校庆及与中国矿业大学的共同声明，确认了焦作在中国矿业教育史上的地位。

Student life

• More than 51,000 students study at the university as of 2026, including doctoral, master's, undergraduate and vocational students.截至2026年，学校有5.1万余名学生，包括博士、硕士、本科和高职学生。
• The College of Adult Education and the Higher Vocational College extend the university's teaching to adult learners, technical staff and students in applied programmes.成人教育学院和高职学院把学校的教学延伸到成人学习者、技术人员和应用型专业学生。
• About 500 international students come from countries including Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Laos, Mongolia, Thailand, the United States and several African states.学校有约500名国际学生，来自巴基斯坦、印度、印度尼西亚、尼泊尔、斯里兰卡、韩国、老挝、蒙古、泰国、美国及多个非洲国家。
• Students in architecture, art design, medicine, humanities and law study on the North Campus, while engineering and science students are based on the main campus.建筑、艺术设计、医学、文法类学生在北校区学习，工程与理科学生则以主校区为基地。
• Twenty-three majors admit students in the first undergraduate batch across Henan, Hebei, Anhui and Jiangxi, setting a higher entry threshold for those programmes.23个专业在河南、河北、安徽和江西等省本科一批招生，录取门槛相应更高。
• Six-year bachelor-to-master's programmes in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, mining and safety attract students seeking an accelerated path.电气、机械、采矿和安全四个专业的六年制本硕连读项目，为希望缩短培养周期的学生提供通道。
• The Taiji College teaches tai chi alongside academic courses, drawing on Jiaozuo's position as the home of Chen-style tai chi.太极拳学院在专业课程之外教授太极拳，依托焦作作为陈式太极拳发源地的条件。
• Three standard track-and-field grounds, ball courts and a student activity centre support sport and campus events.3座标准田径运动场、各类球场和大学生活动中心支撑体育教学与校园活动。
• The library, with more than two million print volumes and 52 databases, is the main study space alongside the college reading rooms.藏书逾200万册、拥有52种数据库的图书馆与各学院阅览室共同构成主要学习空间。

Notable people

• Cai Yuanpei, the educator who led Peking University from 1917 to 1927, served as an executive director of the school's board in the Republican era.教育家蔡元培于1917年至1927年执掌北京大学，并在民国时期担任学校校董会执行董事。
• Weng Wenhao, a geologist who later served as premier of the Republic of China in 1948, was honorary president of the institution.地质学家翁文灏于1948年出任中华民国行政院院长，他曾任学校名誉校长。
• Sun Yueqi, an industrialist and mining engineer who was a leading figure in China's modern coal industry, chaired the board of directors and later represented alumni who held that both universities inherited the original Jiaozuo institute.实业家、采矿工程师孙越崎是中国近代煤炭工业的重要人物，曾任校董会主席，后来代表认为两校共同继承原焦作工学院的校友。
• Tian Cheng was the first supervisor of the Jiaozuo Road and Mine School when it opened in 1909.田程是1909年焦作路矿学堂开办时的首任监督。
• Zhang Zhonglu, a mining educator, served as president from 1923 to 1927 and again from 1931.矿业教育家张仲鲁于1923年至1927年任校长，1931年再度出任。
• Zhang Qinglian led the institution from 1929 and taught mining engineering during its years as the Jiaozuo Institute of Technology.张清涟自1929年起主持校务，并在焦作工学院时期讲授采矿工程。
• Ding Guanhai was among the prominent scholars who taught at the institution in its early decades.丁观海是学校早期执教的名家之一。
• Zhang Bosheng, a geologist, also taught at the Jiaozuo institute before it was merged into the National Northwest Institute of Technology.地质学家张伯声也曾在焦作工学院任教，直至学院并入国立西北工学院。
• Zhang Chao, Jiaozuo's party first secretary and mayor, served concurrently as president when Jiaozuo Mining College was founded in 1958.张超在1958年焦作矿业学院建立时以焦作市委第一书记、市长身份兼任院长。
• Zou Youfeng, a mining engineer and graduate of the China University of Mining and Technology, was president from 2003 to 2015, a period covering the 2004 renaming and the 2011 joint-building agreement.邹友峰是采矿工程师、中国矿业大学毕业生，于2003年至2015年任校长，任内经历2004年更名和2011年共建协议。
• Zhao Tongqian has served as president since December 2023, a period in which the university has been planning its Zhengzhou campus.赵同谦自2023年12月起任校长，任内学校正在规划郑州校区。