Hunan Institute of Engineering (HIE) () is located in

Xiangtan Xiangtan () is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hunan province, south-central China. The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, including Chairman Mao Zedong, President Liu Shaoqi, and Marshal Peng Dehuai, ...

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, China. It was founded in 1951 and is organized into 16 schools and departments. As of 2021, Hunan Institute of Engineering was ranked 371st in China and 768th globally by

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History

Approved by the Ministry of Education in June 2000, the official name of HNIE came into being as a result of the merger of Xiangtan Institute of Machinery () and Electricity Technology and Hunan Textile College (). Xiangtan Institute of Machinery and Electricity Technology, founded in 1951, affiliated with the former National Ministry of Machinery Industry, was appraised to be the national key construction modeling school of higher technical colleges of engineering. Hunan Textile College, founded in 1978, was attached to the Hunan Provincial Bureau of Textile Industry. HNIE is under the joint support of the central government and Hunan provincial government, the latter being mainly in charge of its administration.

Notable alumni

* Wen Huazhi ()

References

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