National University of Defense Technology is a national key comprehensive university under the dual leadership of the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Education, which is listed in the national "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project". The school's predecessor was 1953, the Military Engineering College founded in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, referred to as "Harbin Military Industry". 1970 The school moved south to Changsha, renamed Changsha Institute of Technology, and 1978 was transformed into National University of Defense Technology. The school is located in Changsha City, Hunan Province, China, with a total area of 373 hectares.
After more than 50 years of construction and development, the school has become a comprehensive university covering science, engineering, military science, management, economics, philosophy, literature, education, law, history and other disciplines. The school has 10 colleges and more than 40 departments, institutes and laboratories, including 4 national key laboratories and/kloc-0 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education. Some disciplines represented by 10 national key disciplines are at the leading level in China. From 2007 to 2009, computer science and technology, information and communication engineering, system science, optical engineering, management science and engineering, and aerospace science and technology ranked in the top five in the overall level evaluation of national disciplines.