Xi'an Polytechnic University is a college located in Xi'an

Xi'an

Xi'an is the capital of the Shaanxi province, and a sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China. One of the oldest cities in China, with more than 3,100 years of history, the city was known as Chang'an before the Ming Dynasty...

, in the Shaanxi

Shaanxi

' is a province in the central part of Mainland China, and it includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River in addition to the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of this province...

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Province (China)

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, China

China

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History

Xi'an Polytechnic University was founded in 1912 as the machine-weaving facility of the Beijing High Industry School. The school was approved in 1978 to set up the Northwest Textile Institute, one of the three national institutions controlled directly by the national Ministry of Textiles. In 1998, control transferred to the Shaanxi Province Ministry of Education, and the name of the school was changed to Xi'an Polytechnic University in 2001.

The engineering course is the leading major of the university. Other majors at the school include literature

Literature

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, management

Management

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, economics

Economics

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, science

Science

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, law

Law

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, and education

Education

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