According to the policy of "focusing on cultivating talents and teachers for industrial construction, developing junior colleges and reorganizing and expanding comprehensive universities", the Ministry of Education has adjusted universities nationwide from 1952 to 1953. This major reform established an institution of higher learning focusing on science and engineering.

China's engineering colleges and universities have built a relatively complete professional department system through department adjustment, which has changed the backward situation that the old China could not train supporting engineering and technical personnel, fundamentally changed the original situation of chaotic university setting, interdisciplinary departments and teaching divorced from reality, and trained a large number of talents for the construction of new China.