School introduction:
Hefei University of Technology, headquartered in Hefei, Anhui Province, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Anhui Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. It is a national "double first-class" construction university and a national "2 1 1 project" construction university. It has been selected into the national "985 Innovation Platform of Engineering Superiority Discipline", "20 1 1 plan", "kloc-0/1plan", outstanding engineer education and training plan, national college students' innovation experiment plan, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, national postgraduate plan for building high-level universities, and new engineering research and practice projects. The National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base for Practical Education in Colleges and Universities, the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, the national universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship, the scholarship receiving institution of China government for overseas students, and the member units of CDIO Engineering Education Alliance.
The school was founded in 1945 and has changed its name several times. 1958 was officially named Hefei university of technology, and 1960 was approved by the central government as a national key university. After the merger and reorganization with Anhui Institute of Technology and Anhui Institute of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, it successively belonged to the Ministry of Higher Education, the Ministry of Machinery Industry, the Ministry of Mechanical and Electronic Industry and the Ministry of Education.