Beijing Institute of Technology, founded in Yan'an in 1940, is a key construction university of the "211 Project" and "985 Project", and a national defense industry college focusing on the cultivation of talents in national defense science and technology industry and the development of national defense weapons and equipment

Beijing Institute of Technology was founded in 1940, formerly known as Yan'an Academy of Natural Sciences, is the first science and engineering university founded by the Communist Party of China. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the university has been a batch of key universities in the country, and the first batch of universities to enter the national "211 Project" and "985 Project" construction ranks; In the QS "Top 500 World Universities" with extensive influence in the world, it ranked 15th among the selected universities in Chinese mainland. The school is now under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

In the face of wind and rain, Beijing Institute of Technology has been strong for a long time with the development of national education. In 1949, the school moved to Beijing; In 1952, the school was renamed Beijing Institute of Technology, becoming the first national defense industry college in New China. In 1988, the school was renamed Beijing Institute of Technology. The university now has 20 professional colleges, with 4 national key first-level disciplines, 5 national key second-level disciplines, 3 national key cultivation disciplines, 18 postdoctoral mobile stations, 24 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, and 32 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, among which engineering, materials, chemistry, physics, and mathematics have entered the top 1% of ESI international discipline rankings, forming a discipline and professional pattern of "strong land, Yangxin, and Tuotian" and a discipline and professional pattern that attaches equal importance to science and engineering, and coordinates the development of engineering, science, management, and literature. At present, the university has 3,342 faculty members, including 15 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 29 winners of the "Thousand Talents Program", 31 professors of the "Yangtze River Scholars Award Program", 31 winners of the "National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars", 14 leading talents of the "Ten Thousand Talents Program", 4 national famous teachers, 9 "Yangtze River Scholars" innovation teams and other high-level talents. It has 1 "2011 Plan" National Collaborative Innovation Center, 8 National Key Laboratories and Engineering Research Centers.

Cultivating people with virtue, Beijing Institute of Technology inherits civilization in comprehensively improving the quality of talent training. With the goal of cultivating talents with "lofty ideals, profound academics, strong physique, and beautiful state of mind", among the nearly 300,000 graduates since the establishment of the school, there are Li Peng, Zeng Qinghong, Ye Xuanping, and more than 120 party and government leaders and generals at or above the provincial and ministerial level. There are 40 academicians, including Wang Xiaomo, winner of the highest national science and technology award, and Peng Shilu, chief designer of China's first nuclear submarine; There are a large number of leaders and outstanding builders in various industries and at all levels, and it is known as the "cradle of red national defense engineers". The university has 28,174 full-time students, including 14,789 undergraduates, 8,031 master's students, 3,416 doctoral students, and 1,938 foreign students. The school has won a total of 20 national teaching achievement awards, 10 national excellent courses, 10 national excellent video open courses and 9 excellent resource sharing courses. In 2015, 804 students participated in subject knowledge competitions and scientific and technological innovation competitions and won international and national awards, and the employment rate of undergraduates reached 96.73% and 98.23% of graduate students. Facing the world, the university has signed university-level cooperation agreements with more than 240 universities in 66 countries and regions on 6 continents, and has set up student exchange programs with more than 50 partner universities such as Technical University of Munich, RWTH Aachen University in Germany, Bauman State Technical University in Russia, Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Illinois Institute of Technology in the United States, forming a global network of international talent training.

Committed to innovation, Beijing Institute of Technology has shown its responsibility in serving the national strategy and contributing to the world's scientific and technological development. The school has always breathed and shared the same destiny with the party and the country, and insisted on aiming at the major strategic needs of the country and the forefront of the world's scientific and technological development. The school has created a number of "firsts" in the history of science and technology in New China: the first television transmitting and receiving device, the first two-stage solid high-altitude detection rocket, the first light tank, the first low-altitude altimetry radar, the first 20-kilometer long-range camera, etc., which represents the national level in the field of national defense science and technology such as precision strike, efficient destruction, mobile penetration, remote suppression, military information system and confrontation, and has obvious advantages in dual-use technologies such as intelligent bionic robots, green energy, modern communications, and industrial process control. Among the 30 squares in the 60th anniversary of the National Day parade, the school participated in the equipment design and development of 22 squares, and among the 27 ground equipment teams and 10 air flight teams in the "9.3" military parade, the school participated in the equipment development of 17 ground teams and 8 air teams, ranking first in the number and depth of participation in colleges and universities in the country. In the process of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Shanghai World Expo, the Guangzhou Asian Games, the rendezvous and docking of "Shenzhou 8" and "Tiangong-1", a number of technologies developed by the school have performed excellently. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the total investment in science and technology of the school was nearly 10 billion yuan, and a total of 23 national science and technology awards were awarded, ranking 15th among universities in the country in terms of the total number of awards, ranking third in the number of special projects awarded in the national science and technology awards, and ranking first in the total number of national defense science and technology awards, authorized national defense patents and effective national defense patents.

The horn is excited, and Beijing Institute of Technology sets sail with glory and dreams. From 1940, it was born in Yan'an to serve the construction of the Anti-Japanese War, and to today in the 21st century, it has cultivated high-level talents for the construction of an innovative country; From open-air classrooms, eating and living in caves, to modern campuses and state key laboratories. Beijing Institute of Technology will establish "the ambition to lead, the perseverance to cultivate talents, and the determination to serve the country", "everything starts from improving the quality of teaching, everything starts from cultivating students' all-round development, and everything starts from dedicating to the great motherland", and continues to write a more brilliant chapter on the road of building a world-class university of technology!