Harbin Institute of Technology was founded in 1920 and its headquarters is in Harbin. 195 1 Harbin institute of technology has been identified as one of the two model universities in China that draw lessons from foreign higher education. < br> from 65438 to 0954, the school entered the first batch of six key universities in China. 1996 entered the first batch of key construction universities in the national "2 1 1 project". 1999 was identified as one of the first nine universities in the "985 Project". In 2000, it merged with Harbin Jianzhu University to form the new Harbin Institute of Technology. 20 17 was selected into the list of "double first-class" A-level universities.