North China Electric Power University, referred to as Huadian for short, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It is established by the board of directors of State Grid Corporation, China Electric Power Enterprise Federation and other 12 super-large power groups and the Ministry of Education. It is a national "double first-class" "265,438+065,438+0 Project" construction university, and was selected as "985 Project Advantage Discipline". The School of Energy Science of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization University, led by the Chinese side, is a member of the Global Energy Internet University Alliance, Beijing Hi-Tech University Alliance and CDIO Engineering Education Alliance. It is also the initiator of the China Electric Power University Alliance and the school-enterprise alliance for training outstanding engineers in the power industry. It has been selected into the national "11plan", the education and training plan for outstanding engineers of the Ministry of Education, the postgraduate project of national high-level universities and the national new engineering project.
The school 1958 was founded in Beijing, formerly known as Beijing Electric Power Institute, and has long been managed by the national electric power department. 1969 school moved to Handan, Hebei province, 1970 moved to Baoding, renamed Hebei Electric Power Institute. 1978 was approved by the State Council as a national key university, and was renamed as North China Electric Power Institute in the same year. 1995, North China Electric Power University and Beijing Institute of Electric Power Economics merged to form North China Electric Power University. In March 2003, the school was placed under the management of the Ministry of Education by the former State Power Company and officially became a university directly under the Ministry of Education. From June 5438 to October 2005 10, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school headquarters was moved from Baoding to Beijing, and the Baoding campus of North China Electric Power University was established separately, and the two places were managed in an integrated manner.
According to the information of official website in May 2023, the school covers an area of 1.600 mu and the building area is 1 10,000 square meters. There are 15 colleges (departments) and 67 undergraduate majors; There are more than 3,000 faculty members, 24,000 full-time undergraduates and 0/0.2 million graduate students. ?