Harbin Institute of Technology (hereinafter referred to as HIT) , as one of the key universities of the national project “211” and “985”, is administered by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China. Founded in 1920, HIT, with science, engineering and research as its core, encompassing management and liberal arts, has developed into an open, scientific research and multi-disciplinary nationally famous university.

Today, HIT is one of the top nine key universities in China. The HIT faculty has enormous potential numbering over 3,000, including 22 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and/or the Chinese Academy of Engineering and more than 500 doctoral supervisors. The full-time registered students at HIT numbers over 55,500 and each year we welcome more than 1400 international students to study at HIT.

Guizhou University is the only key university in Guizhou prioritized to develop itself in line with the criteria of the "211 Project" . Its predecessor, Guizhou Institute of Higher Learning, was founded in 1902. Later, it was turned into Provincial Guizhou University, National Guizhou College of Agriculture and Engineering, and National Guizhou University in the process of its development. In November 1951, Mao Zedong, then chairman of the country, inscribed in person the Chinese name of Guizhou University. In August 1997 it was merged with Guizhou Agricultural College, Guizhou Institute of Arts, and Guizhou Agricultural Cadre-Training School. Seven years later in August 2004, it was merged again and formed the current new Guizhou University with Guizhou University of Technology. In December of the same year, the Provincial Government signed an agreement with the Ministry of Education of the People’s Rebulic of China to co-build Guizhou University. One year later, in September 2005, it was approved to be one of the key "211 Project" universities