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What's Tsinghua University like?
Tsinghua University, referred to as "Tsinghua" for short, is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and directly under the central government. Ranked as "project 2 1 1", "project 985" and "world-class university and first-class discipline". He was selected as a member of Nine Major League, Song Lian League, China University Presidents Association, Asian University Alliance, Pacific Rim University Alliance and Tsinghua-Cambridge-MIT Low-carbon University Alliance, and was known as the "cradle of red engineers".

Tsinghua University's predecessor, Tsinghua School, was founded in 19 1 1. The school name "Tsinghua" originated from the school site "Tsinghua Campus", which was a preparatory school for studying in the United States founded by the Qing government. The funds for its establishment came from 1908, part of boxer indemnity returned by the United States. 19 12 was renamed Tsinghua school. 1928 changed its name to National Tsinghua University. 1937 after the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it moved south to Changsha and jointly established the National Temporary University of Changsha with the State Peking University and the private Nankai University. /kloc-moved to Kunming in 0/938 and changed its name to National Southwest Associated University. 1946 moved back to Tsinghua campus. People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded 1949, and Tsinghua University entered a new stage of development. From 65438 to 0952, China's universities were reorganized into multidisciplinary industrial universities. Starting from 1978, it gradually recovered and developed into a comprehensive research university.

Tsinghua, Shui Mu, Yu Xiu, Zhong Ling and Tsinghua University adhere to the school motto of "constantly striving for self-improvement, respecting virtue and doing good" and the school spirit of "actions speak louder than words", adhere to the school-running style of "integrating Chinese and Western, connecting ancient and modern times, infiltrating arts and sciences" and the training characteristics of "being red, specialized and all-round", and carry forward the tradition of "patriotic dedication, pursuing Excellence" and the spirit of "humanistic renewal". Just like the couplets in the I-shaped hall on the campus of Tsinghua-"The mountains outside the threshold are extraordinary after spring, summer, autumn and winter; Clouds in the window make things come and go, and it is Xianju. "