The safety engineering major of Central South University was selected into the first batch of national first-class undergraduate construction major "Double Hundred Thousand Plan", which is a national key discipline and a first-class discipline with the right to award doctoral degrees. It is a national "double first-class" key construction discipline and a national specialty. This major has formed a teaching team with academicians of the two academies as the core, outstanding young and middle-aged professors and overseas doctors as the backbone, reasonable talent structure and complete professional fields. Including national, provincial and municipal safety experts, national registered safety engineers and safety evaluation teachers, it has formed a talent training mode that pays equal attention to teaching and scientific research and combines theory with practice. It has teaching and research platforms such as "National Safety Production Training Qualification" and "National Metal Mine Safety Science and Technology Research Center", with complete experimental facilities, advanced instruments and equipment and first-class school conditions.

The mineral processing engineering major of Central South University was founded in 1952, with a national teaching team represented by academicians and Guo Jieqing. Relying on the "double first-class" construction discipline of mining engineering and metallurgical engineering, it has discipline characteristics and industry advantages in the fields of mineral processing and metallurgical engineering, and the soft science ranks first in the world in 20 19 and 2020.