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North China Electric Power University is a key construction university of the national "211 Project" directly under the Ministry of Education and a key construction university of the national "985 Project Advantage Discipline Platform". The school’s headquarter is located in Beijing, with a Baoding campus. The school has more than 3,000 faculty members, more than 20,000 full-time undergraduates and 10,000 postgraduates. The school occupies an area of more than 1,600 acres, with a construction area of more than 1 million square meters.
School was founded in Beijing in 1958 and was originally named Beijing Electric Power University. In 1969, it moved from Beijing to Hebei and successively changed its names to Hebei Electric Power University and North China Electric Power University. In 1995, North China Electric Power University merged with Beijing Power Economics University (including the Beijing Graduate School of North China Electric Power University) to form North China Electric Power University. In 2003, in the reform of the national power system, the school was transferred from the State Power Company to the Ministry of Education. At the same time, the school was established by the State Grid Corporation of China, China Southern Power Grid Corporation, China Huaneng Group Corporation, China Datang Corporation, China Huadian Corporation, and China Huadian Corporation. The board of directors composed of China Guodian Corporation and China Power Investment Corporation and the Ministry of Education jointly established North China Electric Power University. In 2013, the board of directors of North China Electric Power University was renewed. The members of the board of directors include seven central electric power enterprises and nine units including the China Electricity Council and North China Electric Power University.
For more than half a century, the school has carried the historical mission of cultivating high-quality talents and advancing scientific and technological progress for the national energy and power industry. After entering the new century, the school has implemented the policy of "establishing a school with disciplines, strengthening the school with talents, rejuvenating the school with scientific research, and developing with characteristics", seizing opportunities, accelerating development, and achieving rapid development by leaps and bounds.
The school has School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Energy Power and Mechanical Engineering, School of Control and Computer Engineering, School of Economics and Management, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Renewable Energy, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering, School of Mathematics and Physics, Humanities and Society Ten colleges including the School of Science and the School of Foreign Languages have 57 undergraduate majors. The school has 2 national key disciplines, "Power System and Automation" and "Thermal Energy Engineering", and 25 provincial and ministerial key disciplines. The discipline of "Engineering" has entered the ranks of 1% of the ESI world; the school has 5 post-doctoral research mobile stations, There are 5 first-level disciplines, 30 second-level disciplines for doctoral degree authorization, 23 first-level disciplines, and 123 second-level disciplines for master's degree authorization. In addition, the school has the right to grant professional degrees in 7 categories, including MBA, Public Administration, and Engineering, and has formed a complete education system for cultivating undergraduates, masters, and doctors.
The school has a team of high-level teachers who are proactive, good-quality, and reasonably structured. There are 1822 full-time teachers, including 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 5 double-employed academicians, 7 national "Thousand Talents Program", 2 national "Thousand Talents Program for Youth" and 2 "National High-level Talent Special Support Program" , 5 "973" chief scientists, 1 national-level teaching teacher, 7 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 6 "Yangtze River Scholars", 8 national "Hundred, Thousand, Thousand, Thousand Talents Project", and 40 were selected by the Ministry of Education. "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program", 4 teams are included in the "Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Team Development Program" of the Ministry of Education.
The school takes talent training as the fundamental task, and has formed the talent training characteristics of “thick foundation, emphasis on practice, strong ability, and innovation”, and became the first batch of universities to implement the “Excellent Engineer Training Program” of the Ministry of Education. The school currently has 6 national-level quality open courses, 2 national-level teaching teams, 11 national-level characteristic majors, 3 national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 national-level engineering practice education centers, and 3 national-level virtual simulation experiments Teaching center, the school passed the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education with "excellent" results.
The school takes serving the country’s major development strategies as its mission and actively participates in the construction of the national innovation system. There are currently 3 national technology innovation platforms, 30 provincial and ministerial technology innovation platforms and research bases; , Smart grid, efficient and clean coal-fired power generation technology, nuclear power technology and other important fields have achieved great results. Since the "Tenth Five-Year Plan", it has undertaken more than 2,300 vertical projects such as major national science and technology projects, "973", "863", the National Science and Technology Support Program, and the National Natural Science Foundation, and has won 242 national, provincial and ministerial science and technology progress awards. Since the beginning of the new century, the school's scientific research funding has grown rapidly, and the three major international search rankings for scientific papers rank in the forefront of universities directly under the Ministry of Education.
As the vice-chairman unit of the China Electricity Council, the school also relies on the university council platform to continuously deepen industry-university-research cooperation. It has reached strategic partnerships with more than 30 large-scale high-tech enterprises in power, coal, telecommunications, and equipment manufacturing at home and abroad. Undertake major R&D projects, jointly build experimental centers, R&D centers, post-doctorate workstations, and postgraduate workstations, accelerate the development and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, and sign more than 760 scientific and technological projects with enterprises that are the main body of scientific and technological innovation every year. UHV AC (direct) flow test demonstration project special contribution unit" title; the school builds a multi-faceted school-local cooperation platform and expands cooperation channels. Local governments such as Beijing, Hebei, Jiangsu, Xinjiang, Guangdong, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Shandong have become strategic cooperation Partners, focusing on new energy, smart grid and other strategic emerging industries, deepen exchanges and cooperation in technological innovation, achievement transformation, talent training, etc., and have achieved remarkable results in promoting regional technological innovation and promoting local economic development; the school actively promotes Inter-university cooperation, as the main initiator, participates in the formation of the Beijing High-Tech University Alliance consisting of 11 industry-specific universities, to realize the sharing and complementation of advantageous resources between universities, and promote inter-university collaborative innovation.
The school has made every effort to promote the process of international schooling. It has carried out substantive exchanges and cooperation with more than 120 internationally renowned universities and research institutions in the United States, Britain, France, Russia, and Japan. It has achieved mutual recognition of relevant courses with many international educational institutions, and The Confucius Institute was founded in the United States. Five intelligence introduction bases are included in the "Higher Education Institutions' Disciplinary Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Program" ("111 Plan"); various modes of Sino-foreign cooperative education projects such as "4+0" and "2+2" are held, as well as foreign students coming to China from universities and colleges The "2+2" joint training program has continuously made new strides in international schooling.
Weiwei Academy, the light of electricity. Standing at a new historical starting point, the school carries the glory and dreams of the era of new energy and power, and actively undertakes the historical responsibility of cultivating high-level top-notch innovative talents for the country and society, creating high-level scientific research results, and providing first-class social services. Forge ahead with the goal of a multidisciplinary, research-oriented, international high-level university with distinctive characteristics! We warmly welcome outstanding students who are interested in the power industry of the motherland to apply for the North China Electric Power University!