The campuses are located in Xiamen, Fujian and Quanzhou, the famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China.
The school is directly under the leadership of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. Huaqiao University is a national key comprehensive university.
Yanshan University is the Hebei Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,
National key universities established by the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense,
National first-class universities and world-class discipline construction universities supported by Hebei Province, and member of Beijing Hi-Tech University Alliance.
The school originated from Harbin Institute of Technology and was founded in 1920.