Northwestern Polytechnical University, referred to as "NWPI", is located in the ancient capital of Xi'an, is the People's Republic of China *** and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology directly under the Ministry of aviation, aerospace, marine engineering as the characteristics of the engineering, science-based, management, literature, economic and legal coordinated development of research-oriented, multidisciplinary, open national key universities, is the national "985 Project", "985 Project", "985 Project". It is a national key university under the "985 Project" and "211 Project", and has been selected for the "2011 Program", "111 Program", "Excellence Program", "Excellence in Engineering", "Excellence in Science and Technology" and "Excellence in Engineering". "It is a member of "Alliance of Excellent Universities" and "China-Russia Engineering University Alliance", and has a vice-ministerial establishment.
The school can be traced back to the National Northwest Institute of Technology (NNIT), which was founded in 1938 in Hanzhong by the National Beiyang Institute of Technology, the National College of Engineering of Beiping University, the National College of Engineering of Northeastern University, and the private Jiaozuo Institute of Technology; in 1946, NNIT moved to Xianyang, and was renamed Northwest Institute of Technology in 1950; in October 1957, NNIT merged with Xi'an College of Aeronautics to form the Northwest University of Technology; and in 1960, the Northwest University of Technology (NUTI) was founded by the National University of Technology. Northwestern Polytechnical University. 1960, the school was identified by the State Council as a national key university; in February 1970, Harbin Engineering Institute of Aeronautical Engineering Department as a whole and into today's Northwestern Polytechnical University superbly molded.