Zhongbei University is a multi-disciplinary teaching and research university co-founded by the Shanxi Provincial People's Government and the National Bureau of Defense Science, Technology and Industry and managed by the Shanxi Provincial People's Government. The school's predecessor was Taihang Institute of Technology, the first military engineering school of our party and army founded by the General Command of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Anti-Japanese Base in 1941. It has gone through Taiyuan Institute of Machinery and North China Institute of Technology, and was renamed Zhongbei University in June 2004 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. Zhongbei University is located in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, a famous historical and cultural city in China, and has a campus in Shuozhou City. The school covers a total area of 25.51 mu, with a construction area of nearly 1.01 million square meters, a total value of fixed assets of nearly 2.2 billion yuan, and a total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment of 610 million yuan. It can utilize 2.92 million copies of books in Chinese and foreign languages, and has perfect teaching and public service facilities. The school currently has 13 professional colleges, and has graduate schools, reserve officer education institutes, International Education Institutes (preparatory) and other teaching institutions. There are 1 national key disciplines (cultivation), 10 key disciplines in Shanxi Province, 5 key disciplines with advantageous characteristics in Shanxi Province, and 4 national defense characteristic disciplines (orientations) in the 13th Five-Year Plan. There are 6 postdoctoral mobile stations, 5 first-level disciplines, 23 doctoral disciplines, 20 first-level disciplines, 63 master's disciplines and 80 undergraduate disciplines, covering eight disciplines of engineering, science, literature, economics, management, law, teaching and art. Postgraduate candidates are eligible for exemption from examinations, incumbents are entitled to apply for the grant of master's degree with equal academic qualifications, and three categories of grant of master's professional degree.