What is the history of Beihang University?

I. Period of Beijing Aviation Institute (1952 ~ 1988)

195 1 1 In June, the China government delegation went to the Soviet Union, and when negotiating with the Soviet Union to help China establish its aviation industry, it took the development of aviation higher education in China and the hiring of Soviet experts as important contents. In March of the same year, colleges and universities all over the country began to carry out large-scale department adjustment, and initially adjusted the original departments of aviation engineering in domestic universities: Tsinghua University, Beiyang University, Northwest Institute of Technology and Xiamen University merged to form Tsinghua University Institute of Aviation Engineering; Yunnan University Aviation Department merged into Sichuan University Aviation Department; The former Aviation Department of Central University of Science and Technology and the Aviation Department of North China University merged to form the Aviation Department of Beijing Institute of Technology. 1952 in may, according to the instructions of premier Zhou Enlai on establishing a special aviation university and the decision on building an aviation academy in the resolution of the central military commission on the construction of aviation industry, the central Ministry of education formulated a national adjustment plan for colleges and universities, and further adjusted aviation academies. In June of the same year, the Central Ministry of Heavy Industry and the Central Ministry of Education decided to formally establish Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics with the approval of the State Financial and Economic Committee and the consent of the Central Military Commission.

1952,101On October 25th, based on the merger of Tsinghua University Institute of Aeronautical Technology, Sichuan University and Beijing Institute of Technology (Beijing Institute of Technology), Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the first university of aeronautics and astronautics in new China, was established.

1984, Beihang University was listed as a key institution of higher learning during the Seventh Five-Year Plan period 15, and became one of the first 22 universities in China approved by the State Council to set up graduate schools.

Second, Beihang period (after 1988)

1April 1988, with the approval of the State Education Commission, Beihang was renamed Beihang. 1989 Beihang university was listed as one of the national 14 key universities during the eighth five-year plan period.

1997, the school entered the national "2 1 1 project" to build colleges and universities.

200 1, the school entered the national "985 project" to build colleges and universities.

20 10 school has become a national "excellent engineer education and training plan" university.