Harbin Engineering University Harbin Engineering, for short, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of industry and information technology of the people's Republic of China and jointly built by the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of education, Heilongjiang Province and Harbin city. It is a world-class discipline construction university, "211 Project" and "985 project advantage discipline innovation platform". It has been selected into the discipline innovation talent introduction plan and excellent engineer education and training program of colleges and universities It is the first batch of national innovation and entrepreneurship education reform demonstration universities, the National University Students' cultural quality education base, the national innovative talent training demonstration base, and the National University practice education base The innovation and entrepreneurship base, a member unit of University Alliance of Ministry of industry and information technology, CDIO Engineering Education Alliance, and a member unit of Sino Russian Engineering University Alliance, has been listed in the "plan of strengthening the army with talents in the 21st century" by the Ministry of education and the General Political Department.The school originated from the Military Engineering College of the Chinese people's Liberation Army (Harbin Military Engineering), which was founded in 1953. In 1970, Harbin Institute of ship engineering was established in the original site of Harbin military engineering with the Department of naval engineering as the main body. In 1981, it became one of the first units with the right to confer doctor's and master's degrees. In 1994, it was even named Harbin Engineering University.As of September 2019, the University covers an area of 1.3835 million square meters and a building area of 1.0377 million square meters. The library has a total collection of 6.8231 million books. It has 17 Colleges (departments) and 38 undergraduate enrollment majors. It has 12 post doctoral research mobile stations, 2 post doctoral research workstations, 14 first-class discipline doctoral programs, 32 first-class discipline master programs, and 2 doctoral degree categories, There are 9 categories of master's degree, 2863 teaching staff and 29000 students.