Taiyuan University of Technology is a national "double first-class" key construction university, which is formed by the merger of the former Taiyuan University of Technology and the former Shanxi Institute of Mining and Technology. After 116 years of inheritance and development, the school has been built into a work-oriented, integrated science and technology, multi-disciplinary and coordinated development of higher education institutions. It is the national "211 Project" key construction university, the first batch of "Excellent Engineer Education Training Plan" Pilot Universities of the Ministry of Education and the national "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Plan for College Students" implementation school; it has been evaluated as "undergraduate teaching work of ordinary colleges and universities". Excellent units, National Civilized Units and National Civilized Campus were selected as "the first batch of national demonstration universities to deepen innovation and entrepreneurship education reform", "National Innovative Talents Training Demonstration Base", "National University Practice and Education Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base". They were awarded "National May 1 Labor Award" and "National Advanced Grass-roots Party Organization".

The school is rooted in the land of Shanxi and has a vast platform for talents. At present, the school covers an area of more than 3,200 Mu and the building area of the school is 1.49 million square meters; there are 3,154 full-time undergraduates, 5,692 master students, 736 doctoral students and 507 foreign students; there are 81 undergraduate majors, 31 master's degree points of first-level disciplines, 15 doctoral points of first-level disciplines and 13 post-doctoral mobile stations; there are 3 national key disciplines and 4 national experimental teaching demonstrations. Fan Center, 5 national characteristic specialty construction points, 7 national "engineering practice education centers", 1 provincial and ministerial co-construction of national key laboratory cultivation base, 4 Ministry of education key laboratories, 1 Ministry of science and technology key area innovation team, 2 ministers of education Jiang scholars innovation team, engineering, materials science, chemistry three disciplines entered the top 1% of ESI global ranking; Among them, 2068 full-time teachers, 2 academicians of the Academy of Engineering, 185 doctoral tutors, 938 teachers with senior professional and technical titles.

The school has set up an innovative trend and achieved remarkable results in scientific and technological research and development. Taiyuan University of Technology has been the chief scientist for two consecutive times in undertaking the National Key Basic Research Development Plan (973 Plan) projects, with a total of 1174 national-level projects such as "863 Plan" and "National Key Research and Development Plan". It has won 483 national and provincial science and technology achievements awards, including 42 National Natural Science awards, technological invention awards and scientific and technological progress awards. Over the years, the advantages of scientific research and innovation ability have been continuously transformed into the realistic productivity of service industry and regional development. Achievements transformation and technology transfer have accumulated to create more than 10 billion yuan of economic benefits for enterprises, and have made outstanding contributions to national economic construction and social development.

The school abides by the mission of educating people and makes people fruitful. Over the years, the school has always adhered to the fundamental task of cultivating people by virtue, taking students as the center, and improving and optimizing the channels and ways of educating people. International engineering education professional certification has made breakthroughs; Career Navigation education program has an important impact; Innovative teams such as Mathematical Modeling, Overcalculation, Robot, Xiaoming Research Laboratory and Jinbao Team have made great achievements in domestic and foreign competitions; Ideological and political theme website "Qingze Xinyu" has been rated as "Top 100 Websites of National Colleges" for three consecutive years; and "Screw House" has been selected as the national academic mine. At the demonstration site of frontline activities, "Love Home" was awarded the honor of "the 4th Shanxi Moral Model". The school men's basketball team won the CUBA national championship twice, and the school men's football team won the CUFL national championship successfully. Our school became the only university that has won the national championship in both football and basketball events.

The school sets up a global vision and actively carries out foreign exchanges. In recent years, the university has vigorously implemented the international strategic project, continuously intensified international exchanges and cooperation, accelerated the process of internationalization and improved the level of international running schools. It has carried out multi-level and two-way cooperation in running schools and science and technology with more than 100 universities in the United States, Japan, Britain, Australia, Canada, Germany, Russia, France, Italy and other countries. With the international academic high-level contacts more closely, at home and abroad, the popularity and increasing day by day. At present, the school also hosts the Confucius Institute of Kabul University in Afghanistan and the Confucius Institute of Mona University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

Looking back on the past, the adults of science and technology worked hard and made brilliant achievements. Looking forward to tomorrow, the Century Academy will march forward with new hope. In the construction of "double first-class" and the new historical journey of the 13th Five-Year Plan, all teachers and students of Taiyuan University of Technology will conscientiously study and implement the spirit of the Nineteenth National Congress of the CPC under the guidance of Xi Jinping's socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, adhere to the principle of "upholding morality and cultivating people", adhere to quality first, adhere to discipline construction as the leader, student-centered, take the road of intensive development and use first-class people. Talent, first-class achievements, first-class grade and first-class spirit, to create a high level of international innovation-oriented University and unremitting struggle!