The predecessor of North China University of Technology was the National Beiping Advanced Industrial Vocational School, which was founded in 1946. Later, it went through the development stages of Beijing Industrial Iron and Steel School, Beijing Metallurgy College, Shijingshan Metallurgy College, Beijing Iron and Steel School, Beijing Metallurgy Electromechanical College, and was renamed as North China University of Technology in 1985; It has been subordinated to the Central Ministry of Heavy Industry, the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry and China Nonferrous Metals Industry Corporation, and has been mainly managed by Beijing since September 1998.
North China University of Technology adheres to the school running purpose of "building a school with quality and running a school with characteristics", follows the school running philosophy of "educating people first, respecting teachers and loving students, academic priority, and coordinated development", and has formed the educational characteristics of "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, quality first, and comprehensive development".
North China University of Technology has formed a school spirit with "professionalism, humanistic spirit and enterprising spirit" as its main theme, with the motto of "encouraging learning, combining talent and morality" as well as the school spirit of "seriousness, strictness and preciseness". The university insists on taking talent cultivation, scientific research, social service and cultural inheritance and innovation as its own responsibility, and strives to build a high-level teaching and research university with important influence, distinctive characteristics and prominent advantages at home and abroad.
