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Xi'an University of Technology
西安理工大学
Former names	Beijing Institute of Machinery; Shaanxi University of Technology; Shaanxi Institute of Machinery
Motto	祖国、荣誉、责任
Motto in English	Motherland, Honor, Responsibility
Type	Public university
Established	May 1, 1949
President	Li Xiaolian
Communist Party Secretary	Liu De'an
Academic staff	1,672
Students	18,000
Location	Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Campus	Urban; 1,352,000 square metres (14,550,000 sq ft)
Colors	PurpleGold
Website	old.xaut.edu.cn/English/
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	西安理工大学
Traditional Chinese	西安理工大學
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Xī'ān Lǐgōng Dàxué

Xi'an University of Technology (Chinese: 西安理工大学; XUT) is a provincial public comprehensive university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. The university is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Shaanxi Provincial Government.

As of February 2019, the university has 3 campuses, a combined student body of 18,000 students and 1,672 faculty members. The university consists of 16 faculties and 1 department.^[2]

At present, the university has 32 national and provincial key scientific research bases, including 1 National Key Laboratory, 1 National Engineering Research Center, 2 Key Laboratories of the Ministry of education, 1 Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, 1 Promotion Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and 1 Key Laboratory of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.

History

The school traces its origins to the former Beijing Institute of Machinery (北京机械学院) and Shaanxi University of Technology (陕西工业大学), founded in 1949 and 1960, respectively, and would later become Shaanxi Institute of Machinery (陕西机械学院) in 1972. In January 1994, Shaanxi Institute of Machinery was officially renamed Xi'an University of Technology, which is still used today. In 2002, Xi'an Instrument Industry School (西安仪表工业学校) was merged into the university.

School Day

The school takes the National Beiping Senior Industrial Vocational School (国立北平高级工业职业学校）, the predecessor school of Beijing Institute of Machinery (北京机械学院), which was taken over by the People's Government in 1949, as the starting year of the school celebration, and May 1 is the day of the school celebration.

Campuses

Xi'an University of Technology Jinhua Campus

3 campuses: Jinhua campus, Lianhu campus and Qujiang campus.

Qujiang campus: Xi'an University of Technology Qujiang Campus is located at No. 58 Yanxiang Road, Xi'an, with a planned land of 10,010 mu and a building area of 354,000 square meters. The construction of Qujiang Campus was started in 2001 and put into use in 2002. Four teaching buildings, ten student apartments, three young teachers' apartments, Yifu Science and Technology Information Center, Student Activity Center, Plastic Track and Field, Engineering Training Center, Student Canteen, Swimming Pool, etc. have been built, which can satisfy the study and living requirements of more than 10,000 students.

Undergraduate and graduate students of the School of Electricity, the School of Management, the School of Science, the School of Humanities, the Department of Civics and Politics, the School of Arts, and first- and second-year students of other colleges study and live on the Qujiang Campus.^[2] Xi'an Metro Line 5 has a station at the Qujiang Campus of Polytechnic University on the southeast side of the campus.

Historical Remains

The Han tomb: In February 2004, a precious Han Dynasty tomb was discovered at the construction site of the Qujiang Campus of Xi'an University of Technology, with well-preserved, colorful and rich murals. These murals not only depict images related to the ascension of the tomb owner's soul to heaven, such as dragons, tigers, cranes, feathered men, the sun, the moon, and clouds, but also show scenes of secular life, such as traveling on carriages and horses, hunting, feasts and cockfights, which were popular during the Eastern Han period, and have greatly enriched the contents of the murals in Western Han tombs in Guanzhong region. However, due to the absence of epitaphs in the Han tombs, it is still impossible to determine the identity of the tomb owners of the Western Polytechnic University Han tombs.^[3]

Schools and Departments

Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty of Mechanical and Precision Instrument Engineering
Faculty of Automation and Information Engineering
Faculty of Water Resources and Hydroelectric Engineering
Faculty of Printing and Packaging Engineering
Faculty of Economics and Management
Faculty of Sciences
Faculty of Humanities and Foreign Languages
Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Faculty of Art and Design
Faculty of Further Education
Faculty of Higher Vacational and Technical Education

Library

As of May 2015, the library has collected more than 1.88 million volumes of paper documents, about 3.29 million volumes of electronic documents, more than 2,300 kinds of paper-based Chinese and foreign journals, and more than 10,000 kinds of full-text electronic journals.

Culture

Motto: Motherland, Honor, Responsibility
University newspaper: Journal of Xi'an University of Technology

Notable alumni

Shan Zhongde, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
Li Peicheng, Chinese agricultural soil and water engineering and water resources and environmental engineer, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Wei Minzhou, former Secretary of the Xi'an Municipal Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress.^[4]
Zhang Boxing, Served as Governor of Shaanxi Province and Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee.

References

^ 李孝廉任西安理工大学校长（图/简历）. people.com.cn (in Chinese). 9 March 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b 学校概况. xaut.edu.cn (in Chinese). 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
^ Xian wanbao (2009). "理工大汉墓——来自两千年前的祖先馈赠" [Han Tomb of Xi'an University of Science and Technology - Ancestral Gifts from 2,000 Years Ago].
^ "陕西省人大常委会原党组副书记、副主任魏民洲受贿案一审宣判" [Wei Minzhou, former deputy party secretary and deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress, was sentenced in the first trial for bribery.]. 新华网. 2018-11-20. Archived from the original on 2020-08-10.