Hebei University of Technology

The university vigorously implements the project of strengthening the university with talents and constantly improves the mechanism of introducing and training high-level talents. The university has more than 2,700 teaching staff, including more than 1,600 full-time teachers. In recent years, around the major national strategic needs of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei synergistic development and regional industrial transformation and upgrading development needs, the university relies on the platform jointly built by province and municipality and ministries, establish the "landing high" scientific research ideas, and gather regional resources. The university has built 54 national and provincial research platforms, including provincial and ministerial state key laboratories, national engineering technology research centres and national joint local engineering laboratories. The university has been awarded the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the Hou Debang Chemical Science and Technology Achievement Award and the Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the university hosted 21 major national key projects and more than 400 national natural science funds projects, granted more than 2,700 patents, and was approved as one of the first national pilot universities for intellectual property rights, ranking 70th among the top 100 universities in China for patents. The first "Yuanguang" small satellite was successfully flown by the Long March 8 launch vehicle and operated in orbit. The high-performance robot haptic sensing intelligence system was selected as one of the pioneering technologies in the "Science and Technology China" list in 2020. The university has spent 300 million yuan on science and technology annually, and more than 100 scientific research achievements have won national and provincial awards, making it the most awarded university in Hebei Province for outstanding contributions to science and technology, and one of the top ten outstanding invention and creation units in Hebei Province.