History of Tsinghua University

The history of Tsinghua University spans over a century since it was founded in 1911. The school is located on the site of Tsinghua Garden in Beijing, the former residence of Yinzhi, the third son of the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty.

In 1909, the indemnity payment to the United States from the was reduced by US$10.8 million by Theodore Roosevelt's administration. The Qing imperial court used the difference to create the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Programme and established the China Institute along with a preparatory school. The school was later renamed Tsinghua School and expanded in 1925 with the addition of a college department. It was officially chartered as a national university by the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China in 1928. After the onset of Second Sino-Japanese War, Tsinghua was relocated to Changsha along with Peking University and Nankai University to form National Changsha Provisional University. The combined school was relocated to Kunming in 1938 and renamed as National Southwest Associated University.

In 1946, Tsinghua University was restored and resumed its operation after the school was relocated back to Tsinghua Garden. After a series of education policy reform beginning in 1952, Tsinghua transformed into the top institute dedicated to science and technology in National Key Universities. In the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, the school was elevated again through the introduction of Project 211 and Project 985 that aimed to improve the research standard of higher education in China.

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