Introduction of extended information of Harbin Engineering University;
Harbin Engineering University, referred to as "Harbin Project" for short, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China and jointly established by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education, Heilongjiang Province and Harbin City. It is a world-class discipline construction university, "2 1 1 Engineering" and "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform". It has been selected into the program of introducing talents through discipline innovation in colleges and universities, the education and training program for outstanding engineers, the national innovation experiment program for college students, the national public graduate program for building high-level universities, the new engineering research and practice program, the scholarship receiving institution of China government for overseas students, the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, the national cultural quality education base for college students, the national demonstration base for training innovative talents and the national practical education and innovation and entrepreneurship base for colleges and universities. The University Alliance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the member units of CDIO Engineering Education Alliance, and the member units of Sino-Russian Engineering University Alliance were included in the "2 1 Century Talents Strengthening the Army Plan" by the Ministry of Education and the General Political Department.
The school originated from China People's Liberation Army Military Engineering College (Harbin Military Industry) founded by 1953; 1970, Harbin Institute of Shipbuilding Engineering, with the naval engineering department as the main body, was established in the original site of Harbin military industry; 198 1 became the first unit with the right to confer doctoral and master's degrees; 1994, renamed Harbin Engineering University.