School profile:
Northwestern Polytechnical University, referred to as Xigong University for short, is located in Xi City, the capital of Shaanxi Province, directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the only national key university in China with the characteristics of developing aviation, aerospace and navigation engineering education and scientific research at the same time, and ranks among the national "Class A World-class University Construction University", 985 Project and 2 1 1 Project. Selected into 20 1 1 plan,1plan, excellent engineer education and training plan, national innovative experiment plan for college students, and new engineering research and practice projects.
National Construction of High-level University Postgraduate Program and China Government Scholarship for Overseas Students; Leading member of University of Excellence Alliance, Sino-Russian Engineering University Alliance, Sino-Russian Jiaotong University Alliance, Sino-British Engineering Education and Research Alliance, and "Belt and Road" Aerospace Innovation Alliance, independent auditing unit for degree authorization, the sole sponsor of QB50 project in Asia, and the overall coordinating unit in Asia.
1938 the national Beiyang institute of technology, the national Peiping university institute of technology, the national northeastern university institute of technology and the private Jiaozuo institute of technology set up the national northwest institute of technology in Hanzhong, Shaanxi; 1946 moved to Xianyang, and 1950 was renamed Northwest Institute of Technology; 1952 east China aviation institute was established in Nanjing by the departments of aviation engineering of jiaotong university, Zhejiang university and Nanjing university.
1956 moved to Xi' an and changed its name to Xi' an Aviation Institute; 1957, Northwest Institute of Technology and Xi 'an Aviation Institute merged to form Northwestern Polytechnical University; 1970 Integration of the former Aviation Engineering Department of China People's Liberation Army Military Engineering College.