brief introduction North China Electric Power University(NCEPU),founded in 1958and designated by the State Council as a key university in China in1978,is affiliated with the Ministry of Education and officially listed as one of the“211Project”universities.NCEPU is composed of two respective campuses in Beijing and in Baoding,with its main campus in Beijing.The Baoding campus covers an area of40 hectares and Beijing campus covers an area of53.33hectares.NCEPU holds school buildings of800,000square metersandfixed assets of2.1billion yuan,including0.3 billion yuan allocated to scientific and teaching facilities.The university library covers a collection of1.5million books.NCEPU possesses a high-quality teaching staff witha total number of1,600professional teachers,including287professors,490 associate professors,and four academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Being open to students from all over China,the university has,at present,more than 35,000full-time students,including20,002undergraduates and6,276post-graduates.For many years,NCEPU has enjoyed the graduates’employment rate of over96%.NCEPU has greatly improved its academic programs and a complete educational system for bachelor’s,master’s and Ph.D.students has been firmly established.Currently,NCEPU maintains54bachelor’s programs,52master’s programs,20Ph.D.programs,3first-level disciplines authorized to confer Ph.D. degrees,2mobile stations of post-doctoral scientific research,1post-doctoral project workstation,2key disciplines at the national level,13key disciplines at the provincial and ministerial level,10key laboratories at the provincial and ministerial level,1 research center for Beijing energy development,and some professional degree programs including Master’s Program of Business Administration and Master’s Program of Applied Engineering.Since the“Tenth Five-year Plan,”NCEPUhas undertaken542scientific projects at the national level from National Natural Science Fund,“863”Program and“973”Program.And57of these projects have won the Awards for Scientific and Technological Progress at the national,provincial and ministerial levels.In2007,the scientific funds reached240million yuan.In addition, the Science Park of NCEPU is designated as one of the National-level College Science Parks in China.Zealously promoting diverse international exchanges and cooperation such as2+2baccalaureate degree joint-education programs and continuous joint-education programs from bachelor to master degrees,NCEPU has established cooperative ties with more than60distinguished universities and scientific institutions in Europe,North America and other parts of the world.More than100international students are currently studying on campus.Based on the long-term educational experience in electric power engineering,NCEPU has established a close relationship with power industry.At present,NCEPU is jointly constructed by the Ministry of Education and the University Directorate,which is composed of State GridCorporation of China,China Southern Power Grid Co.,Ltd.,China Huaneng Group, China Datang Corporation,China Huadian Corporation,China Guodian Corporation and China Power Investment Corporation.Through a long-term educational exploration,NCEPU has gradually formed its own striking features.The school spirit “Perseverance,Solidarity,Devotion,Eminence”has been playing a key role in achieving the prosperity of NCEPU and shows the true quality and good behavior of the teachers,students and leaders at all levels in the dramatic process of running the university.Along with a series of distinctive and dominant disciplines,the academic discipline system to serve the power industry is firmly established.Facing the development of renewable energy in the world and focusing on new energy research, NCEPU is dedicated to setting up a new discipline system of“Extensive PowerConcept”in order to improve the service for power industry,based on dominant disciplines and supported by the disciplines of liberal arts and sciences.Featuring practice-and capability-oriented cultivation of professionals,NCEPU focuses its education on laying solid foundations,raising student capabilities,stressing innovation and comprehensive development,whose teaching system in engineering education is composed of four modules including basic experiment,intramural practice,simulation,and outside-campus engineering practice.As the cradle of senior electrical talents in China,NCEPU has fostered many outstanding graduates, some of whom have become the academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering,senior technical and managerial talents in the power industry.In the “Eleventh Five-year Plan”,NCEPU continues to carry out the idea of scientific development and the educational guideline,“Advancement through development of key disciplines,Improvement through talent recruitment,Revitalization through scientific research,and Prospering through highlighting strengths,”emphasizing quality-oriented cultivation of professionals and running a responsible university.By way of following the rules of education,meeting social demands,focusing on teaching characteristics,deepening the educational reform and implementing a leapfrog development,NCEPU will accomplish,within the following ten to fifteen years,the mission of building a state-of-the-art,multidisciplinary,internationalized and research-oriented university with international standing and distinctive characteristics.”。