Northeastern University (NEU) was founded on April 26, 1923. In its history of over 90 years, the university has formed its unique spirit: “Striving constantly for improvement and behaving in conformity with truth”. It has gained a number of high-level scientific research achievements, such as the first analog computer, the first domestically produced CT, the first piece of super steel, the new technology of smelting vanadium titanium magnetite, the energy-saving theory and technology of steel industry, the controlled rolling and controlled cooling technique, and the mixed intelligent optimization control technology. By establishing the first university science park in China, it has established a series of high-tech enterprises, such as the Neusoft Corporation and the Neunn Technology Inc., and formed its unique characteristics in the areas of technological innovation, technological transfer and industry-university cooperation.
NEU has a unique comparative advantage in technological innovation and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. It has explored an effective way to combine the policy, production, education, research and application so that it has achieved a sound interactive development of academic disciplines, personnel cultivation, scientific research and industry development. Focusing on the new IT technology, new materials, bio-science, and other edge-cutting fields, the university established Cloud Computing Science and Technology Industrial Park, New Materials Industrial Park, and Health Industrial Park. These have greatly promoted the development of the cloud computing and big data industry, improved the innovation and upgrading of equipment manufacturing industry in Shenyang, and laid a new foundation to serve the national economic construction and the revitalization of the old industrial bases of Northeastern China.
Sticking to the principle of “cultivating outstanding personnel” and the path of “innovation, distinctiveness and openness”, NEU will stride forward unremittingly to build itself into a world-class university with Chinese characteristics, playing a leading role in the new industrialization progress in China.
