Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) was founded in 1920 with full assistance of the country thereafter, and has been repeatedly been designated as one of the top nine key universities in China since 1999. Forging ahead towards a world-class university, HIT set up the Research Academy of Science and Technology (RAST) in 2005 as a way of exploring a new management system for scientific research.

　　Working closely with each discipline, RAST is established as a university-oriented, open and internationalized platform for scientific and technological research on a high plane, which comprises an information sharing platform, a laboratory facilities sharing platform and a talents flow and sharing platform, which allows RAST to offer its full assistance for interdisciplinery and cross-disciplinery researches, encourage and support a group of new interdisciplinery and integrated research fields, and cultivate and support a batch of research fields of marginal and newly-emerged disciplines. Further, RAST takes the initiative to apply and to promote a group of key scientific research programes for making a number of representative achievements, and makes all its efforts to nurture a batch of innovative research teams and outstanding talents and to establish a number of scientific and technological innovation research bases including national laboratories, national key laboratories and key laboratories for national defense and the like, thereby forging its way to achieve the goal of the leap-forward development of the scientific and technological researches in HIT.

　　1.Vacancies

　　Talents at home and abroad are wanted for the construction of the following scientific research platforms of RAST:

　　2.Qualification

　　3.Beneficial Treatments

　　1).Corresponding beneficial treatments after the approval by the university:

　　Other beneficial treatments:

　　→HIT provides temporary apartments, related office and experiments equipments for researchers returning from abroad

　　→Hit will set special funds from key construction funds for excellent projects or team recruitment for the laboratories construction

　　→Spouses of the introduced talents are offered with priority for jobs if they are qualified to the conditions of talents introduction, if not, HIT will provide a certain portion of job arrangement allowance. Detailed information is included in the Temporary Regulations in HIT for Granting Temporary Life Allowance for Spouses of the Introduced Talents

　　→Children of the introduced talents will enroll in the Affiliated Elementary School of HIT or the Affiliated High School of HIT, and they will enjoy preferential policies by Heilongjiang province for talents returning from abroad in their college and senior high school entrance examinations

　　→The demands and difficulties of the talents returning from abroad will be discussed and solved by HIT and related departments in Heilongjiang province

　　→The treatments of extraordinary talents can be decided after discussion by both parties

　　→Detailed information is included in the Temporary Regulations of HIT for The Employment of Personnel Returning from Abroad
　　 (http://www.hit.edu.cn/express/employ.htm)

　　2).Beneficial treatments for excellent Dr. graduates under 35

　　→Dr. graduates who have employment experiences since January 1st, 2001:

　　A lump sum of 100,000 RMB allowance including settlement allowance, housing subsidy and the first year post subsidy supported by HIT alone

　　→Dr. graduates who have already had employment experiences before January 1st, 2001:

　　A lump sum of 55,000 RMB allowance including settlement allowance and the first year post subsidy supported by HIT alone, and the housing subsidy will be granted according to the standards set by the Logistic Affairs Office of HIT

　　→Provision of temporary apartments

　　→Other policies are included in the Several Measures of HIT for Attracting Excellent Doctors (http://www.hit.edu.cn/express/employ.htm)

　　4.Ways of Application

　　1).researchers from other units please fill in the Contract Professors Application form (http://rsc.hit.edu.cn/rcyj/), and fresh Dr. graduates please fill in the Employment Application, Examination and Approval form (http://www.hit.edu.cn/express/employ.htm).

　　2).materials of the researchers will be submitted to the Human Resources Office of HIT after the approval of the primary examinations and interviews by the Professor Committee of RAST;

　　3).materials of the researchers will be submitted to the president’s office meeting of HIT after being discussed, examined and approved by the directors office meeting of the Human Resources Office of HIT;

　　4).Successful applicants who have been approved at the president’s office meeting will be required to register.

　　5.Required Materials

　　1).an application form;

　　2).copies of the R&D projects, certificates of prizes and patents listed in the application form;

　　3).complete articles of 5 important innovative papers and copies of the covers and catalogues of the journals the papers are collected in, and copies of the covers, catalogues and the first pages of other representative works;

　　4).SCI、EI、SSCI、CSSCI containing the papers listed in the application form and proof of quotations by other papers;

　　5).proof of important posts and working experiences at home and abroad of the applicants;

　　6).copies of the invitation letters or notifications of conferences reports and specially invited reports and proof of working experiences at international conferences;

　　7).two recommendation letters by two experts;

　　8).Copies of diplomas of the applicant from bachelor degree to the final degrees.

　　Notice: all the materials mentioned above can be e-mailed to the following e-mail box.

　　6.Contact

　　Address: Room 519, Building 2H, 2 Yikuang Str., Nangang Dist., Harbin, P.R. China, 150080
　　Tel: 86-451-86402559
　　Fax: 86-451-86402588
　　E-mail ：zhangyf607@163.com
　　http://rsc.hit.edu.cn/rcyj/

Research Academy of Science and Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology
2007-11-14