The school was founded in 1920, and its name is Harbin Sino-Russian Industrial School, 1928. The school was officially named Harbin Institute of Technology. 195 1 has been identified as one of the two demonstration universities in China to learn the mode of running foreign higher education, and 1954 has entered the first batch of six key universities in China. 1996 entered the first batch of key construction universities in the national "2 1 1 project". 1999, one of the first nine universities in the "985 Project". In 2000, it merged with Harbin Jianzhu University to form the new Harbin Institute of Technology.