North China Electric Power University is a national key construction university under the "2 1 1 Project" directly under the Ministry of Education. It is also a national key university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the board of directors of seven super-large power enterprise groups, including State Grid Corporation. The school was founded in 1958, formerly known as Beijing Electric Power Institute, and moved to Hebei in 1969, and later renamed North China Electric Power Institute. 1978 was approved by the State Council as a national key university. 1In May 1995, with the approval of the former State Education Commission, North China Electric Power University and Beijing Institute of Electric Power Economics merged to form North China Electric Power University. In September 2005, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school was changed from Baoding to Beijing.