Hebei United University (HEUT)

Hebei United University, located in Tangshan, the most promising city at the center of Bohai Bay Rim, is one of the ten key universities of Hebei Province. Hebei United University is a key university with a history of more than one hundred years in Hebei province. It is also a comprehensive university with multi-discipline and multi-level education programs. Its discipline covers engineering, medicine, sciences, economics, management, law and humanities. Education programs are provided for masters, bachelors, international students and adult students. It was built by the government of Hebei Province together with State Administration of Quality and Technical Supervision and SASTIND. It is a comprehensive university taking engineering and medicine as the backbone and pursuing a harmonious development of engineering, medicine, sciences, economics, management, law and humanities. Education programs are provided for masters, bachelors, international students and adult students.

The university has good teaching resources. It has 1651 teachers including 326 professors and 494 associate professors. 232 teachers hold doctoral degrees. 80 scholars are awarded honorary titles by the State, Province and Ministry of Education. 13 academicians are employed to work part-time. There are over 40,000 full-time students of all kinds, including 300 international students. The university has 8 campuses covering an area of 1,540,000 square meters, a floor area of 1,000,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and research equipment is 300 million RMB. It possesses first-class language labs, multimedia classrooms, E-reading rooms, CAD centers, computing centers, audio-visual centers and network centers. The A level university library has a possession of 2.18 million books and journals, 2.6 million kinds of E-books, and 30 large-scale databases. The university is the publisher of 6 journals in engineering, natural sciences, social sciences and medicine. The first-class affiliated hospital with outstanding professionals and advanced facilities has passed the ISO9001 authentication.

The university consists of 31 colleges, offering 76 undergraduate programs, 138 master programs including 4 professional degree programs and 12 masters of engineering programs. 10 specials are approved as state level characteristic specialties including MBBS; 12 disciplines are approved provincial key disciplines; Five key laboratories and research centers of Hebei Province are established in the university. The university also possesses Mine Medicare Center Training Base of State Administration of Work Safety, Injury Research Institute of Hebei Province, Philosophy Social Science Research Base of Hebei Province, Tangshan Scientific Development Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tangshan City and Countryside Integration Research Center, Tangshan Academician Workstation and over 10 key labs of Tangshan City.

The university has constantly paid high attention to international exchange and cooperation. Close links have been established between Hebei United University and more than 20 foreign universities such as University of Lincoln, University of Leeds, University of Northumbria, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Purdue University, Colorado Technical University, University of Pecs, Pacific State University, Tomsk State University, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Dresden University of Technology. Cooperation has been carried out in various ways, such as teacher and student exchange, joint education program, regular academic seminar, international summer school program, joint scientific research, etc.

Hebei United University is recognized by WHO and the graduates of MBBS program are eligible to take the Medical Licensing Examinations held by the medical councils in different countries such as MCI, USMLE, MMC, CCM, NMC etc.

Tangshan

Tangshan is a largely industrial prefecture-level city in northeastern Hebei province, People’s Republic of China. It has become known for the 1976 Tangshan earthquake which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale and killed at least 255,000 residents. The city has since been rebuilt and has become a tourist attraction.

The city of Tangshan is approximately 149 kilometers, 92 miles or 80 nautical miles east by south east of the country’s capital city of Beijing. It takes roughly 2 hours by road to get from Tangshan to Beijing.

Tangshan’s prefecture population was 7,577,284 at the 2010 census, with over 3 million in the 6 core districts.

Tourism

• Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty


• Jingzhong Mountain, a religious shrine for the believers of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism


• The Anti-seismic Monument, located in Anti-Seismic Square

Rail

• Beijing–Harbin Railway


• Tianjin–Shanhaiguan Railway

Roads

• China National Highway 102, in the south of Fengrun District


• China National Highway 112, ring road encircling Beijing, traversing the west side of Tangshan’s urban area


• China National Highway 205, which runs along the eastern and southern front of the urban area


• G1 Beijing–Harbin Expressway, on the northern side of the urban area


• G25 Changchun–Shenzhen Expressway, on the western side of the urban area

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