HUTB Introduction

2024-10-18

Inheriting the millennium context and promoting the spirit of Huxiang, Hunan University of Technology and Business (HUTB), located in Changsha, a famous historical and cultural city, was founded in 1949 and enjoys the high reputation of the “Base of Economic Xiang Army and Cradle of Famous Enterprises”. HUTB is a financial and economic university led by academician with distinctive characteristics and mutually-supporting coordinately developing disciplines in management, economics, engineering, science, law, literature, art, inter-discipline and other disciplines. HUTB is a doctoral degree granting unit and one of the first-batch groups to enroll students in the province, has been appraised by the Ministry of Education as “Excellence” in the undergraduate teaching quality evaluation and is also awarded as an Applied University of National Industry-Education Integrated Development Project in the 13th Five-Year Plan, one of the national first-batch top 100 “Model Universities in Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform”, the “National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base of Practical Education” and Outstanding Achievement Award of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (one of the universities winning the Grand Slam in this award).

HUTB has a group of high-level talents represented by Chen Xiaohong, CAE Academician, including the convener of Management Science and Engineering Discipline Review Group of Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, the member of the plenary committee of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the deputy director of Teaching Steering Committee of Management Science and Engineering Specialties of the Ministry of Education, the deputy director of Management Department of Science and Technology Commission of the Ministry of Education, the director of National Center for Basic Science, the head of the national first-class key discipline “Management Science and Engineering” and the innovation research group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the chief professor of “Changjiang Scholars Innovation Team” of the Ministry of Education, leading talent of  the “National Ten Thousand Talents Program”, talent in the National Cultural Expert Program and the “Four First-Batch” Program, and the first level national candidate in the national “Ten Million Talent Project”; there are nearly 500 teachers with senior professional titles, nearly 800 teachers with doctoral degrees, 9 academicians introduced as international talents, 70 experts, scholars and outstanding entrepreneurs such as the “Distinguished Young Scholar” and “Changjiang Scholar”; the academician team was selected as “Huang Danian Teacher Team in National Universities”.

There are 120 national and provincial-level teaching and research platforms, including the National Basic Science Center and the National Key Laboratory (Cultivation) in HUTB. It takes the lead in building a major scientific deployment of the provincial party committee and the provincial government—the Xiangjiang Laboratory—and has established 34 key research institutes (centers) at the university level. In the past five years, the number of national-level research projects has been at the forefront among provincial universities, including 4 major projects (including the ones led by HUTB) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 3 major projects and 11 key projects from the National Social Science Fund, 9 projects (including the ones led by HUTB) from the Ministry of Science and Technology’s National Key R&D Program, and 9 major key consulting projects from the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Faculty members have won the second prize of National Science and Technology Award, the 2nd prize of National Teaching Achievement Award (3 items), the Hunan Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award, the Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, Fudan Prize for Eminent Contributions to Management Science, the Guangzhao Science and Technology Award, the first prize of the Ministry of Education’s Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) (2 items), the first prize of the Ministry of Education’s Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of the Hunan Science and Technology Progress Award, and the “Top Ten Golden Strategies” from the Huxiang Think Tank Research, among other awards. A number of think tank achievements have contributed to the decision-making of the Party and the state.

Currently, there are 23 schools, 77 undergraduate specialties (including 3 Sino-foreign cooperation undergraduate specialties), 19 national first-class specialties and 33 provincial first-class specialties. At present, there are nearly 30,000 graduate students and undergraduate students. Following the motto of “Sincerity and Credibility, Pragmatism and Innovation”, all the students have been forging ahead with enterprise and fortitude. In the past five years, they have won 900 national awards, such as the National “Challenge Cup” Competition Grand Prize and the “Progressive Innovation Gold Award”. The number of awards has ranked among the top 10 in the 2019-2023 ranking list of National Undergraduate Competition of Humanities and Social Sciences Universities. HUTB recruits students from 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of the whole country with employment rate ranking among the top universities in the province. We have delivered more than 200,000 outstanding talents for economic and social development.      

Tide rises in Xiangjiang River, and a great hawk spreads its wings. Adhering to the idea of integrated development of “new engineering + new business + new liberal arts ” and science, HUTB strives to form first-class concepts, goals, standards, quality and mechanisms, create a new HUTB of innovation, humanities, art, sports, digital intelligence, green, and happiness, and build a good garden for reading and seeking knowledge. Taking advantage of the east wind of higher education reform and advancement, HUTB is sailing towards the vision of an innovative first-class technological and business university.