The predecessor of Hebei University of Technology is called the Beiyang technology school established in 1903, which is the earliest university in China to cultivate industrial talents, and it founded the earliest university run factory in China.The University ranked among the first batch of key universities under the national “Project 211” in 1996. In 2014, it was jointly built by Hebei Province, Tianjin and the Ministry of education. In 2017, it was selected as a national “double first-class” University.

IEEE and DRAA, the Digital Resource Acquisition Alliance of Chinese Academic Libraries, have entered into an open access read and publish agreement. This agreement makes it more convenient for corresponding authors to publish open access articles with IEEE’s industry leading journals and magazines as eligible authors pay reduced article processing charges (APCs) and may have the opportunity to pay no APCs as some of these costs are waived under the agreement.