|     Hebei University of Science and Technology, situated at Shijiazhuang city,capital of | 
        
            | Hebei province, is one of the key multidiscipline universities of Hebei.It was founded in | 
        
            | 1996 by incorporating former Hebei Institute of Chemical Technology and Light Industry, | 
        
            | Hebei Institute of Mechano-Electric Engineering, Hebei Textile Staff & Workers University. | 
        
            |     Hebei University of Science and Technology covers an area of 3000 mu, of which 700,000  | 
        
            | square meters is the building section. Its fixed assets reach RMB 0.7 billion with 0.15 | 
        
            | billion for teaching and research instruments and equipments. Its library collects 1.9  | 
        
            | million books, 2,000 kinds of Chinese and foreign scientific magazines, and all kinds of journal databases and foreign science periodicals. | 
        
            | The total storage of digital information reaches 8T. The university now has 2500 staff members, including 1200 teachers and researchers, | 
        
            | 600 professors, 16 doctoral advisers and 340 MA tutors, etc. And it has a total enrollment of 35,000 students, including 20,000 full-time | 
        
            | undergraduates and associate-degree students, postgraduates and foreign students, and 15,000 students of adult education. | 
        
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                        |    The university is a provincial whole with the eight disciplines of engineering,sciences, |  
                        | arts, economics, management, law and medicine, almost covering Hebei traditional and hight- |  
                        | ech industries.At present, the university has 17 colleges; 59 specialties for undergradua-  |  
                        | tes;39 disciplines with the right to award MA;3 provincial key disciplines i.e.environment |  
                        | engineering,chemical technology and computer software and theory;2 provincial key developing |  
                        | disciplines i.e. fermentation engineering and textile engineering;7 state and provincial |  
                        | key laboratories and engineering technology research centers i.e. National Environment |  
                        | Protection Pollution Control Center for Pharmaceutical Waste Water, Hebei Laboratory for |  
                        | Bio-Technology and Pollution Control, Hebei Pharmaceutical Chemical Engineering Research  |  | 
        
            | Center,Hebei Production Process Automation Engineering Research Center, Hebei Contemporary Integrated Manufacturing Engineering Research  | 
        
            | Center,Hebei Fermentation Engineering Research Center, Hebei Textile&Garments Engineering Research Center and 3 provincial Demonstration  | 
        
            | Center of Experimental Teaching i.e. Life Science and Engineering Experimental Teaching Center, Basic Experimental Teaching Center for  | 
        
            | Chemical Pharmacy and Production Process Automation Experimental Teaching Center. Furthermore, Hebei Testing Center,Hebei Chemical Testing  | 
        
            | Base,National CAD Training Network Grade II Net and Hebei Engineering Graphics Society and some provincial associations are all set in Hebei  | 
        
            | University of Science and Technology. | 
        
            |     The university has been committed to the cultivation of innovative talents by practice and endeavored to cultivate advanced applicable  | 
        
            | talents with innovative ability and practical knowledge. In recent years, our students have had 300 scientific achievements, of which 76 won  | 
        
            | the provincial awards, coming out top in National Challenge Cup, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling and Undergraduate  | 
        
            | Electronic Design Contest. Our graduates are well received in the society and the employment rate has ranked Top Three in the past six years.  | 
        
            | In 2005, the university made a survey in 132 units for the graduates’performance. Of 819 graduates, 160 have been in senior management and  | 
        
            | 369 leading technicians. | 
        
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                        |     In recent years, the university’s conditions as well as teaching level and quality have |  
                        | been much improved. With the approval of Hebei Education Examination |  
                        | Academy, three majors of our university i.e.communication engineering, machinery design and  |  
                        | manufacture and automation and electronic engineering, have been listed in the first  |  
                        | enrollment of Hebei province, which symbolizes that our comprehensive strength and teaching  |  
                        | quality have reached a new high. |  
                        |     To satisfy the demand of local economic development, the university strengthens the  |  
                        | partnership of industry, university and research in undertaking many key projects jointly, a  |  | 
        
            | new pattern that focuses on applied and development researches as well as basic research. In the past few years, the university has assumed 40  | 
        
            | national research programs of 863 Program and NSFC, and hundreds of horizontal programs; its patent licenses ranked first in Hebei in  | 
        
            | successive four years, ranking 54th in universities of China; the university’s scientific research funds have also been growing, till 30  | 
        
            | million RMB in 2006. | 
        
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                        |     The university has positively carried out open-policy and constructed cooperation with  |  
                        | 46 universities and institute in America, England, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Korea and  |  
                        | Australia, etc, and developed material cooperation in such fields as credit mutually  |  
                        | admitted, students exchange cultivation, teachers exchange program, cooperation in  |  
                        | scientific research and academic exchange, etc. |  
                        |     At present, under the flagship of “Focus on man’s all-around development and serve  |  
                        | local economy and social progress”, the whole university has been upholdinging the spirit  |  
                        | of “Advance, cooperate and devote” to stand with the best universities in China. |  |