Tsinghua University is directly affiliated with Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and is ranked as "211 Project " and "985 Project". It is selected as " Mount Everest Plan ", "2011 Plan ", "111 Plan", " Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program ", " Excellent Legal Talent Education and Training Program ", " Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program ", and is a member of the C9 Alliance, East Asian Research University Association, Pacific Rim University Alliance, Tsinghua -Cambridge-MIT Low Carbon Energy University Alliance, and is a member of the Central Administration and is a deputy ministerial-level organization.
Tsinghua University is one of the most famous higher education institutions in China and even Asia. Two presidents of the Republic, 7 members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, 14 two bombs and one satellite winners, and more than 600 academicians came out from here. A large number of academic masters such as Wang Guowei , Liang Qichao , Chen Yinke , Zhao Yuanren and other a large number of academic masters have taught here. In the century-long history of running schools, Tsinghua University, which has "self-improvement and virtue carrying things" has deeply influenced China's modern and contemporary development process, and has made great contributions to social prosperity and national prosperity.
Tsinghua University's predecessor was Tsinghua School , which was founded in 1911. At that time, the Preparatory School for Studying in the United States was established by the part " Boxer Indemnity " "refunded" by the United States. In 1912, Tsinghua School was renamed Tsinghua School (because the university was originally the royal garden of the Qing Dynasty - " Tsinghua Park ". So the university name was named as the university). In 1925, the university department was established, and four-year college students were recruited and research institutes were opened. In 1928, it was renamed "National Tsinghua University" and has departments such as literature, law, science, and engineering.
1900, China's Boxer Rebellion caused military interference in the Eight-Nation Alliance. On the morning of September 7, 1901, the Qing court's plenipotentiary representative Yi Kuangli, Li Hongzhang, and representatives of 11 countries signed the final agreement and signed the " Xinchou Treaty " that pushed the Chinese nation into suffering. The sixth paragraph of the Xinchou Treaty agreed that the Qing government would compensate the eight countries of Russia, Germany, France, Britain, the United States, Japan, Italy, and Austria, as well as the military expenditure, loss expenses and other payments of the six "victimized countries" of Sweden and Sweden, and the six "victimized countries" of Norway, totaling 900 million taels of silver. From 1902 to 1940, it will be paid off in 39 years. The income from customs, concurrent customs and salt administration is mortgaged. According to the measures listed in the treaty and the exchange rate of , it is equivalent to the currencies of each country, which is the "Bontaine Indemnity". Among them, Russia sent troops to Manchuria, which required the most, so the income was the largest, which was more than 130.37 million taels. China had a population of about 450 million at that time, and each Chinese was given a tax of silver for the Boxer Indemnity. The Boxer Indemnity exceeded the total of all previous reparations, and at this point, China's finances and economy went bankrupt in full. In modern times, China paid a total of more than 1.6 billion taels of silver to imperialist countries. Of all countries that launched a war of aggression against China, Japan plundered China's most property. The "Xin Chou Treaty" signed in 1901 stipulated that the Qing government paid a total of 450 million taels of silver to the eight Western countries, and the United States should receive more than 32 million taels of silver, equivalent to more than 24 million US dollars. On March 6, 1906, American missionary Ming Enpu suggested to President Theodore Roosevelt in the White House to use the "Bontaine Indemnity" of the Qing government to promote education in China and support Chinese students to study in the United States. Under the promotion of Ming Enpu and others, President Roosevelt proposed a consultation paper to Congress on sponsoring Chinese education, which was adopted by Congress on May 25, 1908. In 1908, the United States officially announced the refund of half of the "Bontaine Indemnity", totaling more than 11.6 million US dollars to China for funding students studying in the United States. In order to carry out the work of sending students in the United States, the Qing government opened the Tsinghua Preparatory School for the United States in Beijing in 1911, and renamed it "Tsinghua University" in 1924.
is a local training of talents. The university department was established in 1925; in 1928, it was renamed "National Tsinghua University".After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, the school moved south to Changsha and jointly established the " National Changsha Temporary University " with Peking University and Nankai University ; it moved to Kunming in 1938 and renamed it " National Southwest United University "; it moved back to the original site of Tsinghua Park in Beijing in 1946.