Beijing Technology and Business University Silk Road Scholarship

About the university

Beijing Technology and Business University (BTBU), abbreviated as Beigongshang or BTBU, is located at No. 33 Fucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing, and is under the administration of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission. It is a high-level research university key to Beijing's development and a member of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei University Business Collaborative Innovation Alliance. It is the first university in China whose Food Science and Engineering program has received dual international accreditation from the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST). The university was established in June 1999 through the merger of Beijing Institute of Light Industry, Beijing Business College, and Mechanical Industry Management Cadre College. Beijing Business College, formerly the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives Cadre School (founded in early 1950) and the Central Commercial Cadre School (founded in 1953), merged in 1958. In 1959, the Ministry of Commerce, with State Council approval, established the Central Business College, which was renamed Beijing Business College in 1960. It was among the first batch of institutions authorized by the State Council to confer master's degrees, and was successively under the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Internal Trade. Beijing Institute of Light Industry, founded in 1958, was one of the earliest higher education institutions for light industry in China, and was successively under the Ministry of Light Industry and the China National Light Industry Council. Mechanical Industry Management Cadre College, founded in 1982, was under the Ministry of Mechanical Industry. In May 2018, the university was authorized to confer doctoral degrees. As of January 2025, the university has two campuses, Fucheng Road and Liangxiang, with a total building area of 593,200 square meters. It comprises 4 faculties and offers 62 undergraduate programs. It has 5 postdoctoral research stations, 7 first-level doctoral degree authorization points, 19 first-level master's degree authorization points, and 22 professional master's degree authorization points. The university has 1,641 faculty and staff, including 1,120 full-time teachers, 53 postdoctoral researchers, and over 17,000 students in various degree programs. It has 5 national characteristic specialties and 8 Beijing characteristic specialty construction sites. Beijing Business College was successively under the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Internal Trade, with its predecessors being the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives Cadre School and the Central Commercial Cadre School. On November 30, 1949, the Central Cooperative Affairs Bureau submitted a request to the Financial and Economic Committee of the Government Administration Council to establish the Central Cooperative Affairs Bureau Cadre School; on December 6, the committee approved the request; on December 26, the school was established, with the director of the Central Cooperative Affairs Bureau, Meng Yongqian, serving concurrently as its principal. The school was located at No. 12 Hongluochang, Xisi North Street, Beijing. On July 27, 1950, it was renamed the All-China Federation of Cooperatives Cadre School. On July 25, 1954, it was renamed the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives Cadre School. In mid-February 1960, the Central Business College Admissions Committee issued the Spring Enrollment Brochure, temporarily offering a four-year undergraduate program in the Department of Business Economics and a two-year junior college program in the Normal Department, recruiting from within the national commercial system. That same year, it was renamed Beijing Business College, and the Central Commercial Cadre School merged into it. In August, Beijing Refrigeration College was incorporated into Beijing Business College as the Department of Refrigeration. On October 21, the Party Group of the Ministry of Commerce approved the establishment of the Party Committee and the Academic Affairs Committee of Beijing Business College.