Editing Harbin Institute of Technology (section)

== History ==
[[File:Harbin Institute of Technology - Main Bldg.jpg|thumb|upright|The main building of Harbin Institute of Technology]]
Key honors include the following:<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Harbin Institute of Technology |url=http://en.hit.edu.cn/news/index/3004 |access-date=2022-09-26 |website=en.hit.edu.cn}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Harbin Institute of Technology |url=http://en.hit.edu.cn/about/history |access-date=2022-09-26 |website=en.hit.edu.cn}}</ref>
* In 1920, the Harbin Institute of Technology was originally established as the Harbin Sino-Russian School for Industry to educate railway engineers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=WelCome to Harbin Institute of Technology |url=http://en.hit.edu.cn/about/international.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505024505/http://en.hit.edu.cn/about/international.htm |archive-date=2008-05-05 |access-date=2008-10-01}}</ref> 
* In 1931, postgraduate students were enrolled from the spring of 1931.
* In 1935, during the Japanese invasion of China, the university fell under Japanese control.
* On January 1, 1938, the name Harbin Institute of Technology was reinstated, which it has retained until the present. 
* In 1945, after the Japanese defeated in World War II and evacuated, HIT was headed by the Zhongchang Railway Bureau and jointly managed by China and the Soviet Union.
* In 1949, Harbin Institute of technology recruited graduate students from all over the country. It is one of the earliest institutions to train postgraduates in China. 
* In 1951, HIT was approved by the central government to become one of the two institutions of higher learning to learn advanced techniques from the USSR. HIT enjoyed a reputation as the 'Cradle for Engineers'.
* In 1954, HIT was established as one of six [[National Key Universities|national key universities]] of China, the only one outside [[Beijing]].<ref name=":4" />
* In 1984, HIT became one of 15 national major investment universities of China. In 1984, HIT became one of the first 22 universities to establish a graduate school. 
* In 1996, HIT was established as a first-class university under [[Project 211]] (a project of [[National Key Universities]] initiated by the [[Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China]]).
* In 1998, HIT was among the first 9 universities to be invited to join the '''[[Project 985]] Club''' (a Chinese higher education system that provides funding priority to 39 leading research comprehensive universities).
* In 2000, Harbin Institute of Technology merged with Harbin University of Architecture, one of the famous eight old schools in China with the same roots, and formed a new Harbin Institute of Technology.
* In 2009, the Chinese [[C9 League]] was established by the Chinese central government, comprising a group of the top nine Chinese universities: [[Peking University]], [[Tsinghua University]], Harbin Institute of Technology, [[Fudan University]], [[Nanjing University]], [[Shanghai Jiao Tong University]], [[University of Science and Technology of China]], [[Xi'an Jiao Tong University]] and [[Zhejiang University]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-02-17 |title=Eastern stars: Universities of China's C9 League excel in select fields |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/eastern-stars-universities-of-chinas-c9-league-excel-in-select-fields/415193.article |access-date= |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref>
* In 2012, HIT was listed in the ''Universities and Colleges Innovation Promotion Plan'' ({{lang|zh-hans|高等学校创新能力提升计划}}), the most recent national advanced innovation alliance.
* In 2013, the results of the third round of discipline assessment were announced. The school has 16 first-level disciplines ranked in the top five in the country, and 25 disciplines rank among the top ten in the country; among them, the first-level discipline of mechanics ranks first in the nation. 
* In 2017, HIT was ranked as Class A (top tier) university in the [[Double First-Class Construction]], the most recent elite Chinese universities program.<ref name=":4" />

=== Weihai Campus ===
[[Weihai]] campus is located in Weihai's [[Weihai Torch Hi-Tech Science Park|Torch Hi-Tech Science Park]], a scenic seaside city on the [[Jiaodong Peninsula]].

The campus, along with the picturesque scenery and mild climate, adjoins the sea (Golden Beach) and is surrounded by mountains. It is ranked in the best 50 universities in satisfaction degree in China.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gaokao.chsi.com.cn/gkxx/ss/201306/20130617/433174530.html|script-title=zh:全国大学生满意度50强高校|access-date=15 September 2014|archive-date=6 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606191406/http://gaokao.chsi.com.cn/gkxx/ss/201306/20130617/433174530.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It now covers totally {{convert|1,560,000|m2}}, with a construction area of {{convert|383,000|m2|abbr=on}}.

HIT, Weihai now has 10 schools and 1 department, 10,466 undergraduate students, 542 master students, 110 Ph.D. candidates, 89 international students, and 861 staff members, including 97 professors and 219 associate professors. HIT, Weihai provides 37 bachelor programs and shares HIT's 22 master programs and 18 doctoral programs, with the same HIT educational standards. Complementing to the Harbin campus, HIT, Weihai has developed with the characteristic disciplines such as [[Marine Science]] and [[Ocean Engineering]], [[Automotive Engineering]], and the highlights in the domains of Advanced Manufacturing, [[Information Technology]] and [[Electric Engineering]], [[Computer Science]] and [[Software Engineering]], [[Material Science and Engineering]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.hitwh.edu.cn/information.asp?id=9&nid=25|title=About Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai|publisher=HIT Weihai Copyright|access-date=9 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815172228/http://en.hitwh.edu.cn/information.asp?id=9&nid=25|archive-date=2017-08-15|url-status=dead}}</ref>