Henan Institute of Science and Technology(河南科技学院)

HIST is a well-developed provincial university. Founded in 1939, it was renamed Henan Institute of Science and Technology in May 2004 with the approval of the Ministry of Education.

The school is located in the national civilized city and national health city - Xinxiang City, Henan Province, covering an area of 2,176 acres, with a campus area of 640,000 square meters. Over the past 80 years since its establishment, the university has covered nine major disciplines, including agriculture, engineering, science, management, education, literature, economics, law and art, with 21 academic schools, consisting 67 undergraduate programs. There are 29,177 full-time students. The library has a total of 3.09 million volumes (types) of various literature resources and more than 1,500 Chinese and foreign language periodicals.

There are 137 professors and other senior professional and technical personnel, 443 associate professors and other associate senior professional and technical personnel, and more than 569 doctoral tutorandmaster tutors.

The school is Henan development organization of doctoral degree authorization project. It owns 12 first-level authorized disciplines of academic master degree and 7 authorized disciplines of professional master degree. The school is the first batch of "national key construction vocational education teacher training base" and "National higher technical and vocational teacher training base" identified by the Ministry of Education.

HIST focuses on promoting open education and it has actively carried out international academic exchanges and cooperation.HIST has established friendly and cooperative relations with over 20 universities in the most than 10 countries such as United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Ukraine etc. It has conducted cooperation in running schools with the University of South Australia, established Sino-Ukraine International Joint Graduate School with Sumy National Agrarian University, Ukraine. It is also in the process of collaboratively declare a project for an institution of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools as a non-independent legal entity. It co-constructed HIST-ECU Lab of Crop Genomics and Genetic Improvement with East Carolina University, built an automation lab with Rockwell Automation of the United States, and established Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Demonstration Center in Kyrgyzstan. Meanwhile, foreign experts from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, etc. are employed to teach throughout the year.