| Yanshan University
The origin of Yanshan University can be traced back to Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) founded in 1920. In 1958, the Department of Heavy Machinery of HIT and its related specialties moved to the strategic industrial town of Fulaerji, Qiqihar in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, there to be renamed the School of Heavy Machinery of HIT.
In 1960, the school became independent as the Northeast Heavy Machinery Institute, and in 1978, she was accredited as one of the eighty-eight national key institutions of higher learning. She began to relocate southward in the historic resort city of Qinhuangdao from 1985, and completed the process in 1997 when she was ratified by the former State Education Commission and adopted the present title of Yanshan University
(YSU). The YSU campus covers an area of 5,000 mu (or 330 hectares) with a total construction area of nearly 1,000,000 m2. At present, the university has 2,700 faculty and staff members, of whom 1,700 are teachers. Among the teachers are 309 full professors (including 101 doctoral supervisors) and 363 associate professors. The university has a student population of 34,000. |
