Beijing Institute Of Fashion Technology | Chinese Universities

Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology is a fashion university with a profound history and distinctive school-running characteristics. The predecessor of the school was the Beijing Institute of Textile Technology, founded in February 1959. It was renamed Beijing Chemical Fiber Engineering College in July 1961. It was established by the former Ministry of Textile Industry and focused on chemical fiber higher education. In February 1987, the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology was rebuilt and expanded to meet the needs of the development of the times. It was the first public clothing college in my country.

The school adheres to the school motto of "walking with the United States", centering on clothing and apparel, with design as the leader, and gradually formed the school-running characteristics of "focusing on art, leading clothing, and integrating arts and crafts". Theoretical research and application in the fields of design, new clothing materials and high-performance clothing, product and digital media design have formed unique advantages. There are School of Fashion Art and Engineering, School of Fashion Art and Engineering, School of Material Design and Engineering, School of Art Design, School of Fashion Communication, School of Business, School of Fine Arts, School of Language and Culture. The professional setting covers the entire textile and apparel industry chain. The discipline and professional construction level of the field is leading domestically。

The school has 7,525 full-time undergraduates, masters, doctors, and Ph.D students, including 6,197 undergraduates, 1,328 masters and doctoral students, forming a "combination of art education with engineering education, management education, ethnic costume culture and modern design concepts, theoretical teaching The characteristic modern clothing fashion education and teaching system combined with practical teaching has nearly 300 national and Beijing-level off-campus talent training bases, and has built a national “top ten” characteristic museum—the National Costume Museum, which collects national costumes from all ethnic groups in China. More than 10,000 pieces of clothing, ornaments, fabrics, batik, embroidery, etc., integrating collection, display, restoration, scientific research, teaching and other functions. There is a national doctoral program for special needs of "Rescue inheritance and design innovation of Chinese traditional costume culture", a number of national characteristic professional construction sites, a national experimental teaching demonstration center, a national talent training model innovation experimental zone, and a key construction in Beijing Discipline has cultivated many outstanding talents for the textile and apparel, fashion and cultural and creative industries. Among them, 9 majors were approved as national-level first-class undergraduate majors under the "Double Ten Thousand Plan" of the Ministry of Education, and 6 majors were approved as provincial-level first-rate undergraduate majors under the "Double Ten Thousand Plan" of the Ministry of Education. More than 60 years after its establishment, the school has trained tens of thousands of graduates, with solid professional foundation, outstanding innovation ability, and strong sense of social responsibility. He has held senior management positions in many well-known enterprises and scientific research institutes in the industry, and many of them have become industry backbones and leading talents. The school has a strong atmosphere of innovation and entrepreneurship. The independent entrepreneurship rate of graduates has been above 5% for many years. There have been exceptions, Grace Chen, UOOYAA, Xishang and many other outstanding designer brands, which are representatives of innovative forces active in the forefront of the industry.

The school has a team of teachers who are politically firm, noble teachers, exquisite professional, skilled in teaching, and diligent in educating people. Many of them enjoy special government allowances from the State Council, and many are selected as national-level teaching team leaders, Beijing scholars, and Beijing Strategy Science and technology talents, municipal-level talents project, Great Wall Scholars Training Program, New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education, Beijing Famous Teaching Teachers, Beijing Excellent Teachers, including "China's Top Ten Fashion Designers" and "China's Top Ten Design Industry" Many leading talents and scholars in the fields of textile and apparel materials, clothing and apparel, and fashion communication, such as "Outstanding Youth" and "Master of Chinese Jewelry Design". Hire international high-end talents such as the former vice president of the University of the Arts London and former dean of Central Saint Martins School of Design, Professor Frances Corner, former vice president of the University of the Arts London and former dean of the London School of Fashion, as distinguished professors. Phoenix Satellite TV News The deputy director of the station and the famous host Wu Xiaoli served as the dean of the School of Fashion Communication, and the school has become a gathering place for high-level talents in the field of clothing.

The school has 1 R&D center of the Ministry of Education, 3 Beijing Key Laboratories, 2 Beijing Engineering Technology Research Centers, 1 Beijing Technology Transfer Center, 1 Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Research Base, and 1 Capital Science and Technology Condition Platform , High-level scientific research facilities are complete. Under the guidance of the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports, the Chinese Disabled Institutions such as the Uniform and Equipment R&D Laboratory for the Winter Paralympic Games are actively playing the role of think tanks. Based on the frontiers of disciplines, the Institute of Clothing Culture, Clothing Technology, Fashion, Lifestyle, and other institutions have been established to produce a large number of original scientific research results. Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", teachers have undertaken more than 1,100 national, provincial and ministerial-level and various scientific research projects, including 34 national social science fund projects, key research and development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and national natural science fund projects. There are 1 major project of science, 4 national key research and development plan projects, more than 200 authorized patents, and more than 40 scientific research achievement awards (including artistic works) at the provincial and ministerial level and above. The academic journal "Art Design Research" sponsored by our school has been continuously selected as the source journals of the Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI) since 2017; "Journal of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (Natural Edition)" has been continuously selected as "Overview of Chinese Core Journals" (Peking University Edition) ).

The school has actively served the country’s major needs and the construction of Beijing’s “four centers” for many years. It has undertaken the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Paralympics, and the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China in 2009. Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, 2014 APEC Leaders' Meeting, 2016 Rio Olympic Games, 2018 large-scale exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, Pyeongchang Winter Olympics "Beijing 8-minute performance", 2019 7th Military World Games, etc. Costume design, and related industry systems that have special requirements, such as a series of aerospace apparel and cabin shoes design for Shenzhou VII, Nine, Ten, and XI, and important design innovations such as the design and development of watches for the Antarctic and Arctic scientific expedition teams. Especially in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, the high-quality and successful completion of the mass parade phalanx, militia squadron and party activities and other related clothing and apparel design tasks have been highly recognized by all walks of life.

The school actively serves the textile and apparel industry and cultural and creative industries, and has built the Zhongguancun Clothing and Fashion Design Industry Innovation Park to develop in-depth strategies with industrial clusters and enterprises and institutions such as Xiongan Rongcheng, Zhejiang Haining, Jiangsu Kunshan, Shandong Qingdao, Liaoning Xingcheng, etc. The cooperation has established a number of industrial parks and school-enterprise R&D institutions, and has achieved exemplary and pioneering progress in the transformation of my country's fashion and design industry achievements. Actively develop cooperation with governments, associations, and enterprises, and sign strategic framework agreements with Beijing Chaoyang District, Shenzhen Longhua District, etc., to help the construction of Beijing's "International Consumer Center City" and the construction of fashion culture in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; co-sponsored with the China Designers Association "China International Fashion Week" serves people’s needs for a better life; cooperates with China Softball Association, China Figure Skating Association, etc. to promote cross-border integration and innovative development of the two parties; cooperates with Anta, Aimer, Dishang, China Silk, Nanshan, Migu, Jinhou, Hualian and other enterprises have carried out cooperation to deepen production, education and research, and jointly serve major national projects. Actively engaged in poverty alleviation and aid to Tibet and Xinjiang, etc., and received unanimous praise from the society.

The school actively promotes international schooling. Benchmarking international first-class fashion colleges and universities, and establishing cooperative relations with nearly 60 internationally renowned colleges and universities. Continuously approved by the China Scholarship Council "Excellent Undergraduate International Exchange Program", "Special Program for Art Talent Training", "International Construction of High-level University Public Postgraduate Program", promoted international joint curriculum cooperation, and promoted the internationalization of students through multiple channels Cultivate strength. Actively participate in platform activities such as the International Federation of Fashion Colleges (IFFTI) and the International Union of Art, Design and Media Colleges (CUMULUS), organize the annual conference of the International Federation of Fashion Colleges (IFFTI), initiate the International Jewelry Design College Union, and host the International Youth Design High-level international competitions, exhibitions and forums, such as IYDC and Beijing International Jewelry Biennale, will enhance the school’s international influence in an all-round way.

School Design was rated as B+ in the fourth round of subject evaluation by the Ministry of Education. It is the only municipal university in this subject that achieves B+ and above, and ranked sixth in the 2019 "Ranking of the Best Subjects in China". Ranked No. 1 in China on the list of the world's best fashion schools released by the world-renowned business magazine "CEOWORLD" in 2020.

Standing at a new historical node, the school adheres to Xi Jinping’s new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics as the guidance, adheres to the fundamental task of Lide to cultivate people, adheres to the "four services" direction of running the school, oriented to the textile and apparel, fashion and cultural and creative industries, and revolving around the country Development strategy, focusing on serving the construction of Beijing’s “four centers”, insisting on the coordinated development of art, engineering, economics, management, and liberal arts with multi-disciplinary development of art, engineering, economics, management, and literature, insisting on clothing guidance and integration of art and engineering, and accelerating the establishment of a high-level characteristic university. A fashion education highland with characteristics of the times, showing Chinese characteristics, and embodying world standards, and continuously cultivate socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical education, art, and labor, so as to achieve the "two centenary" goals and the greatness of the Chinese nation Strive unremittingly to revive the Chinese Dream.