The roots of the University of Science and Technology in Beijing can be traced back to the establishment of the first mining and metallurgy discipline in China's modern history in 1895 at the Beiyang Western College. Over the past 70 years, the university has gradually developed a fine tradition of "rigorous learning style and respect for practice", training more than 260,000 talents of all kinds for society, many of whom have become pillars and pillars of national politics, economy, science and technology, education and other fields, especially metallurgy and material industry. Many of them have become pillars and pillars of the country's political, economic, scientific and educational fields, especially metallurgy and material industries.