A Brief Introduction of North China Electric Power University (Beijing)

A close neighbor of Badaling highway, adjoining Olympic Park on the east and Zhongguancun high technology zone and Shangdi Information Industry base on the west, North China Electric Power University is located in Deshengmenwaizhuxinzhuang , Beijing. It is found in beautiful surroundings and fresh air.

As one of the key universities in China with a history of more than 40 years, this university has been fostering talents in the areas of engineering technology, management, economics and the social sciences. There are more than 8500 students with over 600 graduate students and doctor students.

It has the following departments: the Department of Electric Power Engineering, the Department of Thermal Power Engineering, the Department of Information Engineering, the Department of Automation, the Department of Computer Science and Technology, the School of Business Administration, the Department of Economics and Trade, the Department of Finance and Accounting, the Department of Law and Politics and the Department of Foreign Languages. There is one center for post-doctoral studies . The university offers one post-doctoral project program, 7 doctoral programs, 17 master’s degree programs and 24 bachelor’s degree programs. It has been authorized to admit overseas students. Covering a floor space of 11 thousand square meters, the library has a collection of over a one million volumes.

There are five key ministerial subjects, namely power system and its automation, power plant thermal power engineering, theoretical electric engineering, industrial automation and technological economics. Meanwhile there are three key ministerial laboratories called Power System Intelligence Protection and Control, Industrial Process Simulation and Control, State Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis in Electric Device.

Most of the teachers, half of whom are professors and associate professors, have got degrees of post-doctor, doctor and master respectively. One of the first members of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor Yang Qixun is the founder of the field of power system micro-computer protection and automation in China. Professor Yang Yihan and Song Zhiping are prominent supervisors for doctoral candidates in the field of electric power. The university has set up cooperative relations with universities and institutes in more than 20 countries and regions such as Britain, America, France, Japanese and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

It has undertaken thousands of scientific research programs particularly including those financed by the National Natural Science Funds, National Key Problem Projects, and international cooperative projects, among which nearly one hundred projects have been recognized with national and provincial and ministerial awards. Dozens of techniques have been transferred into production with an annual output of 550 million Yuan.