Henan Polytechnic University is a university jointly established by Henan Province and the State Administration of Work Safety, a key construction institution of the National "Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in the Midwest", a pilot institution of the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, and an excellent school for undergraduate teaching evaluation of the Ministry of Education. Its predecessor was Jiaozuo Road and Mine School, which was founded by British Fortune Company on 1909. It is the first mining institution of higher learning in China and the earliest institution of higher learning in Henan Province. Henan Polytechnic University 1995 withdrew the name of Jiaozuo Institute of Technology and changed its name to Henan Polytechnic University in 2004.
In the first half of the 20th century, a large number of scholars studying in the United States, such as Cai Yuanpei, a famous educator, Weng, a geologist, and Sun, Sun, Ding and other famous industrial and mining experts, successively held leadership positions or professors. After the founding of New China, it has become an important talent training base in the coal industry and won the reputation of "Seeing Jiaozuo from inside the customs". Since 2002, it has been awarded the right to confer doctoral degrees and provincial key universities, and its educational level, level, strength, popularity and influence have been significantly improved.
School safety, distinctive geological and mineral characteristics, coordinated development of science, humanities and other disciplines, 75 undergraduate majors. There are 5 postdoctoral research stations, 4 doctoral programs in first-class disciplines, and 4 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, ranking among the top ten in China in 20 12 national discipline evaluation, 32 doctoral programs in two disciplines, 8 master programs in first-class disciplines, and 9 master programs in two disciplines.
The school has 54 national teaching quality projects, 96 provincial teaching quality projects, and 43 national and provincial key laboratories, engineering research centers, collaborative innovation centers and humanities and social science bases such as the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Land and Resources.