Introduction

Hebei GEO University (HGU), founded in 1953, is one of the five universities affiliated to the former Ministry of Geology and is a provincial key university jointly supported by the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Government of Hebei Province.

As the first educational institution affiliated to the former Ministry of Geology in New China setting up programs of Economics and Management, HGU has been adhering to the core mission of “providing talents and technology support to the sustainable development of resources and environment.”During the six decades, by upholding the motto of “cultivating universal perspectives and pursuing infinite knowledge”, and “advocating the traditional spirit of hard-working, truth-seeking and innovation”，HGU has gradually formed the schooling characteristics of highlighting the overall feature of resource & environment and economics & management, strengthening the coordinated development and the integration of various disciplines of Geo-science, Economic Management, Environmental Science, Land Surveying, Civil Engineering, Information Technology, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and fundamental science.

Up to now, HGU has an education in 7 category disciplines including Science, Engineering, Management, Economics, Law, Literature, and Art with 65 bachelor degree programs and 11 disciplines of Geology, Geological Resources and Engineering, Business Administration, Management Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Law, Applied Economics, Mathematics, Material Science and Technology and Public Administration, covering 51 master degree programs, and 7 professional master programs of Geological Engineering, MBA, MPACC, Finance, Art, Applied Statistics and Engineering Management. In 2016, HGU became the project construction unit of doctoral degree programs.

HGU now has about 18,000 full-time students from all over the country and over 900 academic staff, 50% of them with professorship or associate professorship, 92% with a doctor or master degree. Among them, over 70 have the titles of such as Government Special Allowance Experts, Provincial Excellent Experts, young and middle-aged experts with provincial outstanding contribution, Provincial young excellent experts in social science, provincial young top-notch talents and provincial excellent teachers. In recent years, HGU has brought in many talents, such as Liu Jialin, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Mao Jingwen, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), Ji Qiang, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and the winner of National Distinguished Young Scholar, and the famous expert Li Shaoliang. Besides, there are 187 part-time and visiting professors including 14 academicians.