Harbin University of science and technology Technology) is a University jointly built by the State Administration of science, technology and industry for national defense and the people's Government of Heilongjiang Province, a University of the national "basic capacity construction project of universities in central and Western China", a university undertaking the national "973" and "863" projects, a high-level University in Heilongjiang Province and a university constructing advantageous characteristic disciplines (double first-class in Heilongjiang Province). It has been selected into the excellent engineer education and training plan and the national construction high-level university It is a member of CDIO Engineering Education Alliance, including the public postgraduate program of Pinghua University, the national "characteristic key discipline program", the national innovative experiment program for college students, the national innovation and entrepreneurship training program for college students, the new engineering research and practice program, the receiving institutions of Chinese government scholarship for international students in China, the national typical experience universities for graduate employment.Harbin University of science and Technology (formerly Heilongjiang Institute of Technology), Harbin Institute of electrical engineering and Harbin Institute of technology, which are affiliated to the former Ministry of mechanical industry, were established in 1995. The former three universities were founded in the 1950s. They have national key disciplines, national first class specialty, national defense specialty, National University Science Park and National Science Park It includes the national experimental teaching demonstration center, the national engineering practice education center, the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of education, the National College Students' off campus practice education base, the national dual practice and dual industry base, the national local joint engineering laboratory, the national Internet of things technology application talent training base, and the national rural informatization talent training base.As of May 2017, the university has four school districts, including East, West and South districts in Harbin City, and Rongcheng campus of Harbin University of technology in Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. The school covers a total area of 2.0986 million square meters, teaching infrastructure area of 956 thousand square meters. The library has a collection of 2.56 million books and 1.122 million e-books. There are 2705 teaching staff, 33496 full-time students and nearly 200 international students.