The predecessor of Beijing Institute of Technology was the Academy of Natural Sciences, which was born in Yan'an in 1940. It was the first specialized institution in the history of the Communist Party of China to carry out natural science teaching and research. Comrade Mao Zedong personally wrote the name of the school. Proletarian revolutionist Li Fuchun, proletarian revolutionist and educator Xu Teli, proletarian revolutionist, radio expert, and economic expert Li Qiang successively served as the main leaders of the school. In 1949, the school moved to Beijing; in 1952, it was named Beijing Institute of Technology, becoming the first national defense industrial college in New China; in 1988, it was renamed Beijing Institute of Technology. It is the first university of science and engineering founded by the Communist Party of China. It is one of the key universities built by the country since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It was the first batch to enter the national "211 Project" and "985 Project", and the first batch to enter the construction of "world-class universities". The ranks of the A-category of colleges and universities are now affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

The school has Zhongguancun Campus and Liangxiang Campus in Beijing. The "dual-core" campus has a total construction area of 1.8523 million square meters. There are 21 professional colleges, 9 academies, and 8 new teaching and research institutions such as the Frontier Interdisciplinary Science Research Institute. There are 28 grassroots party committees, 2 general party branches, and 1 directly affiliated party branch.

For more than 80 years since its establishment, Beijing Institute of Technology has insisted on educating people for the party and the country, and has always breathed the same breath and shared the fate with the party and the country. The "Road to Serve the Country by Strengthening the Army" with national defense characteristics and serving the national strategy, and the "Road to Innovative Development" that is bold in pioneering and innovative, open, inclusive and cooperative. The red gene of "Yan'an roots, the soul of military industry", the school motto of "morality and reason, learning with precision", the school spirit of "unity, diligence, truth-seeking, and innovation", and the "seeking truth from facts, not self-righteous" advocated by the old president Xu Teli The style of study has jointly created the unique spiritual temperament and cultural core of the school. Among the more than 300,000 graduates, there are party and national leaders such as Li Peng, Zeng Qinghong, Ye Xuanping, more than 120 party and government leaders and generals above the provincial and ministerial level, Wang Xiaomo, the winner of the highest national science and technology award, and my country's first More than 60 academicians including Peng Shilu, the chief designer of the nuclear submarine, and a large number of scientific and educational talents, pioneers of the times and pillars of governance. The school insists on aiming at the country's major strategic needs and the frontiers of the world's scientific and technological development. It has created many "firsts" in the history of new China's science and technology, such as the first two-level solid high-altitude detection rocket and the first large-scale planetarium. It has always been building a national strategy. Demonstrating responsibility in scientific and technological strength, it has made important contributions to scientific and technological innovation, national development and social civilization progress.

In the past five years, Beijing Institute of Technology has led the high-quality development of the school with high-quality party building, bravely shouldered the new mission of building a strong country, continued to accelerate the "double first-class" construction, carefully cultivated first-class talents, created first-class contributions with sincerity, and strived to build a first-class university. Gathering the strength of teachers and students, it was awarded the "National Civilized Campus", and the school-running business has achieved leapfrog development and entered a "new stage" of high-quality development.

Lide cultivates people, red gene soaks up first-class talents

The deepening of education and teaching reform has achieved remarkable results.The school insists on cultivating people by virtue, strengthens the "three comprehensive education", builds a trinity talent training model of "value shaping, knowledge development, and practical ability", promotes the "Huanyu+" ("SPACE+X") plan, and strives to build wisdom From the perspective of education, the holistic talent training system is committed to cultivating leading leaders with "great ambitions, moral integrity, innovation and tolerance, and responsibility for the times". The quality of talent training and social reputation continue to improve. To build the Future Seiko Institute of Technology, focus on cultivating top-notch leaders with critical, subversive and innovative thinking. The college football team was crowned the "Eleventh Champion" of the National College Football League. The overall quality of the school’s student resources ranks among the top in the country’s “Double First-Class” universities, and the employment competitiveness of graduates has always remained in the first echelon of universities in the country.

Optimize education resources and improve quality in multiple dimensions.The school currently has more than 30,000 full-time students, and has 77 undergraduate majors, which are comprehensive and first-class, including 48 national first-class majors, 6 national-level teaching teams, and 6 national-level experimental teaching centers. Initiated the establishment of the Yanhe University Talent Training Alliance. Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", it has won 6 national teaching achievement awards, 7 national excellent textbook awards, 39 national first-class courses, and 2 new national teaching teachers. There are 31 famous teaching teachers in Beijing, and 189 excellent dissertations have been awarded by the National Academy of Sciences.

The practice of dual innovation education sets a benchmark.BIT students have won consecutive championships in domestic and foreign innovation and entrepreneurship competitions, and the number and quality of awards are among the top universities in the country. Won the overall championship of the China International "Internet +" University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition twice, won the "Challenge Cup" of the Chinese University Student Business Plan Competition, and won the Abu Dhabi International Robot Challenge twice. Approved as the first batch of national innovation and entrepreneurship colleges and the first batch of leading construction units of the National Academy of Outstanding Engineers.

Committed to innovation, scientific and technological meritorious service interprets the responsibility of serving the country

Create a distinctive national strategic scientific and technological force.The school adheres to the scientific and technological innovation work policy of "anchor strategy, forward-looking layout, strengthening characteristics, innovation and transcendence", and continues to implement "planned, organized, and high-quality" scientific research. Strategic core fields such as mobility represent the national level, and have obvious advantages in fundamental frontier directions such as quantum information, integrated circuits, intelligent manufacturing, green energy, and special materials.

Be brave to be the vanguard of technological innovation.The school gives full play to the role of the main force of basic research and major scientific and technological breakthroughs, and deeply participates in major national scientific and technological tasks such as manned spaceflight, Beidou networking, Mars exploration, a new generation of artificial intelligence, carbon neutrality, social governance, and the Science and Technology Winter Olympics; comprehensive services Capacity development and construction in key national fields; created a number of "national heavy weapons" such as "China Compound Eye", undertook the construction of 21 national-level scientific and technological innovation platforms, led the construction of national key laboratories for independent intelligent unmanned systems, and national explosion science and safety protection A number of high-level scientific research platforms such as key laboratories.

High-level scientific and technological achievements continue to emerge.The school's annual average investment in science and technology has remained at more than 5 billion yuan, and the per capita scientific research funding ranks among the top in the country; since the "13th Five-Year Plan", major projects such as the national key research and development plan hosted by the school have been in the forefront of the country, and it has won 21 national science and technology awards. , the first prize of "Continuous Line" for three consecutive years; successively published high-level original achievements in top international journals such as "Science" and "Nature"; 6 typical cases appeared in the National "13th Five-Year" Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Exhibition, forming scientific and technological achievements Transform the "BIT Model".

Thick planting of fertile soil, team building brings together majestic strength

Create a highland of first-class talents with new mechanisms.The school fully implements the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, firmly establishes the concept of "talents are the first resource", and actively creates a good talent ecology of "attracting, standing, retaining, and growing well". Construct a long-term mechanism for the construction of teachers' ethics, implement a new model of "pre-specialization" teacher recruitment that is in line with international standards and has school characteristics, gather high-end innovative elements and intelligent resources, improve the system and mechanism of talent development, and create a "teacher effect" The new model of talent training and introduction represented by "head goose effect", "agglomeration effect" and "multiplication effect" has effectively promoted the introduction of talents by school, education by industry, and gathering talents by talents, and the quality of talent teams has been significantly improved.

The construction of high-level teaching staff has achieved outstanding results.The school implements the "'Three Fives' talent project" and creates a "54321" innovative talent pyramid. There are more than 5,800 faculty members, including more than 2,600 full-time teachers, and nearly 40 academicians of the two academies and more than 450 national talent plans. The proportion of high-level talents in full-time teachers is as high as 20%. In recent years, three consecutive academicians have been selected as "uninterrupted lines", and three high-level foreign teachers have won the Chinese Government Friendship Award, which has formed a new advantage in the construction of a talent team that is full of talents, outstanding in class, and sustainable development.

Distinctive features, vigorous development of disciplines

Discipline construction releases new vitality.The school adheres to the "four orientations", follows the construction policy of "top engineering, high-quality science, excellent liberal arts, and emerging medical engineering", takes into account "academic pursuit" and "industry leadership", continues to promote the characteristics of discipline development, and gradually forms advantages and characteristics , traditional and emerging, application and foundation, comprehensive and cross-promoted collaborative development pattern of engineering, management, literature and medicine.

The overall level of disciplines has improved rapidly.The school currently has 9 disciplines and 33 first-level disciplines, all of which are doctoral degree authorization points; 15 professional degree categories, including 4 engineering doctoral categories. Physics has been newly added to the list of "Double First-Class" construction disciplines. With the subject of Mount Everest as the mainstay, build a "6+7+2" characteristic discipline group, accelerate the in-depth interdisciplinary, integration and mutual promotion of disciplines, and promote the significant enhancement of personnel training and technological innovation capabilities. The influence at home and abroad continues to expand. A number of Everest disciplines such as weapon science and technology, information and communication engineering, and control science and engineering rank among the top universities in the country. .

Diversified and win-win, creating a new pattern of external cooperation

The international popularity and influence continue to increase.The school insists on win-win cooperation with global partners, connects the world extensively and deeply, and forms a higher-level international exchange and cooperation network. Signed school-level cooperation agreements with 382 colleges and universities in 77 countries and regions on 6 continents, and cooperated with Technical University of Munich, University of Bristol, Illinois Institute of Technology, Australian National University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Bauman State Technology, Russia More than 100 cooperative institutions such as universities have set up various student exchange programs. Co-establish Shenzhen BIT Moscow University with the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government and Lomonosov Moscow State University, build an international innovative organization college, and cultivate leading leaders with international competitiveness. To build the brand of "Study in BIT", the number of international students exceeds 2,700, and the countries of origin of students cover three-quarters of the world.

Industry-university-research cooperation has achieved a comprehensive leap.The school connects high-quality social resources with its advantageous disciplines, integrates innovative elements, and builds an innovation system integrating industry, education, research and application. The school-local cooperation institutions continue to produce first-class results, and the Chongqing Innovation Center, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute (Jiaxing), and the Frontier Technology Research Institute ( Jinan) and other comprehensive school-land cooperation innovation platforms.

On the new journey of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation, the school will be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, comprehensively implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the party's educational policy, and focus on implementing the fundamental task of cultivating people through moral education. Adhere to the correct political direction of running the school, adhere to the "four services", strive to build a high-level talent training system, maintain a clean atmosphere, unity and harmony, green and high-quality, and pursue excellence in learning and teaching ecology, and take root in China to build a world-class university , Make new and greater contributions to building a powerful education country!