Harbin Engineering University, abbreviated as "Harbin Engineering", is a key research university focusing on engineering, science, engineering, management, literature, economics, law, education, art and other disciplines. Its historical origin can be traced back to the early fifties of the last century, and its predecessor was the Military Engineering College of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which is also known as the "Kazakh Military Industry".
[Historical starting point: the establishment of Kazakhstan's military industry]
The history of Harbin Engineering University began in 1953, when the State Council of the People's Republic of China approved the establishment of the Chinese Military Engineering College of the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China, referred to as "Harbin Military Industry", with General Chen Geng as the first dean. The establishment of Kazakhstan's military industry is a major strategic decision made by New China to strengthen its scientific and technological strength for national defense and to train high-level military engineering and technical personnel. With its strict militarized management and rigorous academic spirit, this military institution of higher learning has cultivated batches of outstanding military scientific and technological personnel, which played a decisive role in the development of national defense science and technology in the early days of New China.
[Development stage: from Harbin military industry to Harbin Institute of Shipbuilding Engineering]
In the sixties, with the changes in the situation at home and abroad, the Kazakh military industry withdrew from the army in 1966 and underwent reorganization and adjustment. Among them, the Harbin Institute of Shipbuilding Engineering was established on the same site with the Department of Naval Engineering as the main body, which continued to work intensively in the fields of ship and ocean engineering, weapons science and technology, and made outstanding contributions to the modernization of naval equipment and the development of marine science and technology on the mainland.
【Change and Growth: The Rise of Harbin Engineering University】
With the deepening of reform and opening up and the acceleration of higher education reform, Harbin Institute of Shipbuilding Engineering has made remarkable achievements in scientific research, teaching and talent training, and has gradually developed into a well-known engineering school in China. In 1994, with the approval of the national education administrative department, Harbin Institute of Shipbuilding Engineering was officially renamed Harbin Engineering University, marking that the school entered a new stage of development.
After the renaming, Harbin Engineering University not only inherited the fine tradition and profound heritage of Harbin Military Industry and Harbin Institute of Shipbuilding Engineering, but also realized the optimization and adjustment of the discipline structure and the integration and improvement of educational resources under the new historical conditions. At present, the university has become a national "double first-class" world-class discipline construction university, as well as a Chinese government scholarship for international students in China, and its many disciplines such as ship science and technology, underwater acoustic engineering, nuclear science and technology are at the leading level at home and even in the world.
To sum up, the predecessor of Harbin Engineering University, the Military Engineering College of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, is its unique historical imprint and the source of the school's profound cultural heritage. From Harbin Military Industry to Harbin Institute of Shipbuilding Engineering, and then to today's Harbin Engineering University, this series of changes has witnessed the glorious history of China's higher engineering education from serving the national strategy, focusing on military science and technology, to all-round development, openness and inclusiveness, and then to internationalization and modernization. Today, Harbin Engineering University is based in China and facing the world, with the goal of cultivating high-quality talents with international vision and innovation ability, and continues to forge ahead on the road of higher engineering education and scientific research.