Beijing Information Science and Technology University (BISTU), a merger of its two predecessors, Beijing Institute of Machinery (BIM, supervised by the former Ministry of Machinery Industry) and Beijing Institute of Information (BIT, supervised by the former Ministry of Electronic Industry), is an institution with a relatively complete system of academic disciplines in information science and technology and is principally supported and supervised by Beijing Municipality.

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