The headquarters of Hunan University of Science and Technology is located in Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, one of the central cities of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration in the national "two-oriented society" construction experimental zone. The school is a provincial key university in Hunan Province, one of the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" universities of the Ministry of Education, and one of the top 50 universities in China with typical graduates' employment experience 20 12-20 13. In 2007, the Ministry of Education evaluated it as "excellent" university. As of June 20 1 1, the school has 1 national and local joint engineering laboratories for geospatial information technology, 8 provincial-level key research bases for social sciences such as industrial economics, 4 provincial-level key laboratories (engineering technology centers) for mechanical equipment health maintenance and coal mine safety mining technology, and 3 cooperative demonstration bases in Industry-University-Research. There are 79 teaching laboratories (centers), including 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 5 basic course demonstration laboratories in Hunan province, 3 basic laboratories 13 jointly built by the central and local governments, and1professional laboratories/0/0 jointly built by the central and local governments, with the central government supporting 15. Following the existence of five scientific and technological innovation teams in provincial universities on 20 13, the school established three scientific and technological innovation teams in the computer field on 20 14.