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Top Russian technical university campus in China’s Hainan island to focus on aviation and aerospace
- Project details for National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute’s Chinese campus follow President Xi Jinping’s trip to Russia
- The campus in Wenchang county, home to China’s fourth spaceport, aims to be up and running by September 2025
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One of Russia’s largest technical universities will start building a campus later this year in the southern Chinese island of Hainan – home to the country’s fourth spaceport.
The new National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI) campus will specialise in “aviation and aerospace teaching and research”, according to Chinese digital daily Thepaper.cn.
Work on the main building will begin in September, the report said, as project details were firmed up following Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to Russia.
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Construction of the 55-hectare (137-acre) campus in coastal Wenchang county – which hosts the Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre – is expected to be complete by June 2025, with undergraduate and postgraduate classes offered from that September.
This comes two weeks after Xi wrapped up a three-day visit to Moscow, where he and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin vowed to deepen their “comprehensive strategic partnership”, in a joint statement that also pledged to deepen science, technology and educational ties.
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Details of the planned MPEI campus follow close on the heels of an unprecedented agreement between the Hainan provincial government and Germany’s Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (FH Bielefeld).
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