Tsinghua University (Tsinghua for short) is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It ranks among the national "Double-Class" A, "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project", and is selected into "201Plan", "Everest Plan" and "Everest Plan".

It is a member of Nine Schools Alliance (C9), Song Lian Alliance, China University Presidents Association, Asian University Alliance, Pacific Rim University Alliance and Tsinghua-Cambridge-MIT Low-carbon University Alliance. It is a high-level talent training and scientific and technological research base in China. Known as "the cradle of red engineers".

Tsinghua School, the predecessor of the school, was founded in 19 1 1. The name of "Tsinghua" originated from the place name of the school site "Tsinghua Campus", which was a preparatory school for studying in the United States founded by the government in the late Qing Dynasty. The funds for its establishment came from 1908, part of boxer indemnity returned by the United States. 19 12 was renamed Tsinghua school. 1928 changed its name to National Tsinghua University. 1937 after the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it moved south to Changsha.

National Changsha Temporary University was jointly established with National Peking University and private Nankai University. 1938 moved to Kunming and changed its name to National Southwest Associated University. 1946 moved back to Tsinghua campus. People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded 1949, and Tsinghua University entered a new stage of development. China University 1952 has become a multidisciplinary industrial university after adjustment. Starting from 1978, it gradually recovered and developed into a comprehensive research university.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tsinghua University