Harbin Institute Of Technology

Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Public SHANGHAI #12 · 2026Project 985Project 211Double First Class

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Next intakeAutumn 2026

About the university

On June 7, —, 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 is rooted in the northeast, patriotic dedication, hard work and entrepreneurship, to build a large number of national weapons, training a large number of outstanding talents, the Party and the people have made important contributions. General Secretary Xi Jinping hopes that the university will, from a new starting point, adhere to the socialist direction of education, keep close to the fundamental task of establishing moral education, continue to reform and innovate, work hard and pursue excellence in teaching and research, and strive to make a new and greater contribution to the realization of the "two hundred years" goal and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We will make new and greater contributions to the realization of the "two hundred years" goal and the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation. Led by the spirit of congratulatory letter from General Secretary Xi Jinping, all the people of HUST are striving to create a new century of excellence with Chinese characteristics, world class and HUST specifications.

Cradle of Engineers

Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) is under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and has its residence at No. 92 Xidazhi Street, Nangang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as well as campuses in Weihai City, Shandong Province and Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, respectively. The university was founded in —, and in —, it was identified as one of the two model universities in China to learn the foreign higher education mode of operation. In —, the university entered the first batch of key universities under the national "211 Project", and in —, it was identified as one of the first nine universities under the national "985 Project", and in —, it merged with Harbin University of Architecture, which has the same root, to form The new Harbin Institute of Technology was selected as one of the "Double First Class" universities in — and eight disciplines were selected as the new round of "Double First Class" in —.

The university has always adhered to the overall leadership of the Party, adhered to the direction of socialism, exemplary implementation of the President's responsibility system under the leadership of the Party Committee, adhered to the fundamental task of establishing moral education, adhered to the first standard of teacher morality and teacher style, formed the tradition of Party building and ideological and political work of "political leadership, typical leading, brand-driven, school training", in —, —, —, — and —. In —, — and —, it was awarded the national advanced grass-roots party organization four times, and in —, —, — and —, it was awarded the national May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee four times, and was awarded the national May Day Labor Certificate, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology "mention three excellent" project special excellent school, etc. The university has been selected as one of the first ten demonstration colleges and universities for party building work. The university continues to give play to the advantages of demonstration universities, benchmark faculties and model branches in party building, continuously improves the grass-roots party building work system of "university party committee leading, college party committee main body, party branch main backbone and party members master", and continuously deepens "+ branch" and "model library". "In —, academician Liu Yongtan was awarded "National Outstanding Communist Party Member" and "Model of the Times". In —, Liu Yongtan was awarded the honorary title of "National Outstanding Communist Party Member" and "Model of the Times".

Strict specifications and excellent efforts

The university adheres to the tradition of "strict specifications, excellent efforts" and has formed the characteristics of "strong foundation, strong practice, strict process, and innovation" in talent cultivation, which has produced 113 academicians, 148 university secretaries and presidents, 122 vice ministerial-level It has produced 113 academicians of the two academies, 148 university secretaries and presidents, 122 leading cadres at or above the level of deputy ministers, 47 generals of the Republic, more than 450 aerospace and defense chief teachers, and a large number of advanced models, such as recipients of the Order of the Republic, national most beautiful strugglers, national model teachers, national May Day Labor Medal winners, national advanced workers, national most beautiful teachers, national counselor of the year, national student self-improvement star pacesetter, national student of the year, etc., and cultivated more than — outstanding talents. More than — outstanding talents have been trained. In recent years, the university has given full play to the advantages of integrating science and education and industry and education, accelerated the supply-side reform of talent training, innovated the personalized training system of top talents, strengthened the top-level design and resource supply of "five education together", and innovated the Yongtan class, Shangyi class, small satellite class, intelligent robotics class, etc. The "Academician Class" has been widely popular, and students' academic competition results have been ranked first in the national competition list for three consecutive years, and the micro-nano-satellite team of Lilac students has been awarded the Chinese Youth May Fourth Medal.

The university insists on resonating with the national major strategies, and has formed the advantageous characteristics of "based on aerospace, serving national defense, and long in engineering", founded the first aerospace academy in Chinese universities, launched the first small satellite independently developed by a university in China, realized the first star-earth laser link communication in China, and gave birth to the first chess-playing computer and the first new computer. The first talking computer, the first new system radar, the first arc welding robot and spot welding robot, the first nanosatellite independently designed and developed and controlled by university students, the first international high-speed two-way communication test of satellites in high orbit to the earth with laser, the breakthrough of the key technology of the support structure system of the world's largest aperture radio telescope, and the support of China's "eye in the sky". "The successful development of the space robot on the Tiangong II achieved the first international human-machine collaborative in-orbit maintenance science test, the successful development of a new generation of magnetically focused Hall electric thrusters in the first international space applications, the first in the world to achieve the shape memory polymer solar The successful launch of "Longjiang II" became the world's first microsatellite to independently complete the earth-moon transfer, near-moon braking and circumlunar flight; the Mars rover movement system and transfer ramp mechanism, which were developed with the participation of the presiding officer, helped "Zhurong" to realize the Mars The first T-cell receptor-co-receptor complex structure has become a milestone in international cellular adaptive immunity research. HIT has been awarded the — National Top Science and Technology Award, 10 projects have been selected as the top 10 scientific and technological advances in Chinese universities, 22 National Science and Technology Awards during the 13th Five-Year Plan, and hundreds of achievements have helped China's spaceflight for 66 years, and has won many awards such as the "Collective Award for Outstanding Contribution to China's Manned Space Engineering".

Facing the new journey, HUST will always adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, led by the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", and constantly enhance the "four consciousness", firmly We will continue to enhance the "four consciousnesses", firmly "four self-confidence", achieve "two maintenance", based on the "two big situations", remembering "the greatness of the country". Determined to build more national weapons, cultivate more outstanding talents, accelerate the construction of first-class socialist universities with Chinese characteristics, take up the important role of the first school of aerospace in China, and strive to make new and greater contributions to achieve the second 100-year goal and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!

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