PLA Naval Aviation University

The Naval Aviation University of the People's Liberation Army (MOE code: 91019) is an academic institution of the PLAN responsible for the education of the officers of the naval aviation corps. It is headquartered in Yantai City, Shandong Province, and is corps deputy grade. It is a higher military academy that focuses on training junior and middle-level command officers, flight officers, staff officers, air combat support officers, and aerospace engineering and technical officers for the naval aviation and coastal defense forces. It is also a major research center in the field of aerospace technology. History The university is the result of a merger of two major military academies, the Naval Aviation Academy (海军航空兵学院) and the Naval Aviation Engineering Academy (海军航空工程学院). The institutional lineage is roughly as follows: Naval Aviation Academy The Second Naval Aviation School: In 1950, the Naval Business School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was established. On 19 September 1950, the Naval Business School and the Third Corps of the Second Field Army Military and Political University merged to form the "Second Naval Aviation School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army", located in Qingdao, Shandong The First Naval Aviation School: On 1 August 1950, the Central Military Commission and the Navy Party Committee established the "First Naval Aviation School" at a small airport left by the Japanese in Cangkou, Qingdao. On 1 November 1950, with the help of 74 Soviet experts headed by Soviet adviser Yainov and more than 20 graduates recruited from Peking University, Tsinghua University and other universities, the aviation school officially opened. The first president was Zhao Huichuan and the first political commissar was Gui Shaobin. The school's personnel was assembled from the Second Branch of the General Logistics Department of the Fourth Field Army, the Second Corps of the North China Military and Political University, the Air Force Command of the East China Military Region, the Hebei Military Region, and the Navy Command. On 1 January 1951, Navy Command issued Order No. 3: The Second Naval Aviation School was merged with the First Naval Aviation School, and the CMC renamed the combination the "Naval Aviation School of the PLA". On 17 January 1951, the school was formally established and located in Cangkou. In March 1952, the Naval Aviation School moved from Cangkou to Weixian, Shandong. On 14 July 1952, the Naval Aviation School was re-divided into two schools: the First Naval Aviation School was established at Weixian Airport (responsible for bomber air service), and the Second Naval Aviation School was established at Cangkou Airport in Qingdao (responsible for bomber and fighter ground service, it later became the Naval Aviation Technical College). In June 1954, the First Naval Aviation School moved from Weixian to Jinxi County, Liaoning Province (now Huludao City). Between December 1969 and January 1970, the school moved from Jinxi, to Changzhi City, Shanxi Province. In 1978, the First Naval Aviation School was renamed the "Naval Aviation School of the PLA". In January 1987, the school was renamed the "Naval Flight Academy of the PLA". It was denominated a junior service training school. In July 1990, the academy moved back from Changzhi to Huludao. In the 2000s, the flight academy was transformed from academic education to comprehensive primary-level flight training. On 8 March 2012, the "Naval Aviation Academy" was established. It was formed by the merger of the Naval Flight Academy and two naval training bases. It was directly subordinate to the PLAN. It was mainly responsible for the training of naval aviation intermediate command officers, shore-based and ship-based flight officers, combat training staff officers, anti-submarine early warning, air combat support officers, and land and sea parachute training. The headquarters was located at No. 1 Jiefang Road, Lianshan District, Huludao City. Naval Aviation Engineering Academy (海军航空工程学院) In August 1950, the Sixth Artillery Division of the Northeast Military Region, the Sida Station of the Second Logistics Division of the Fourth Field Army, and the Tenth Artillery Regiment of the Special Column of the Southwest Military Region merged, and on 24 August 1950, the "Navy Coastal Artillery School" was established in Qingdao. Wang Xiaoming was appointed as the principal and Song Jinghua was appointed as the political commissar. The school opened on 9 October 1950. On March 2, 1951, the Central Military Commission decided to change the name of the school to the "Navy Artillery School". In September 1952, the school was moved to Yantai, Shandong. The original Qingdao campus was retained and later evolved into the Qingdao Branch and Training Base of the Naval Aviation Engineering College. In 1957, the Ordnance Department of the Naval Artillery School was separated and joined in the establishment of the Naval Technical School, which later became the University of Naval Engineering. In August 1959, the Naval Artillery School, the Naval Department of the 15th Air Force Aviation School, and the Naval Training Base Training Group were merged to form the "Naval Special Technical School" to train technical cadres for the missile force. On December 24, 1960, the Ministry of National Defense ordered the Naval Artillery School in Yantai to be rebuilt into the "Naval Senior Technical School". Sun Liangping was appointed as the principal and Yin Guohong as the political commissar. In addition to the original artillery command major, the school also opened various missile engineering and technical majors: missile engineering, which recruited high school graduates for a five-year course; missile technician major, which recruited junior high school graduates with a four-year course, plus other specialist officer courses such as missile command. At the same time, with the approval of the State Council, 67 professors, lecturers and engineers were selected from local colleges, factories and scientific research institutions to teach at the school. In 1961, the Naval Senior Technical School was upgraded to a corps grade unit, and the head of the school was promoted accordingly. In 1963, the National Defense Science and Technology Commission designated the academy as a key school. In January 1970, the school was moved to Nanjing, Jiangsu. In March 1970, it was reformed into the "Third Naval School"。 In September 1974, the school was moved to Jinxi, Liaoning. On 14 April 1975, the CMC changed the name to the "PLAN Second Artillery School" and raised it to corps grade. The name was officially changed in June 1975 On November 7, 1977, the Central Military Commission decided to raise the school into the "PLAN Second Artillery Academy". The name was officially changed in January 1978. In 1979, it was listed as a national key university by the State Council. In 1981, the Navy decided to expand their training and set up a training department, a political department, a school affairs department and an office, three academic departments, a soldier training brigade and various teaching and research offices in the PLAN Second Artillery Academy of the Navy. In 1985, the college started postgraduate education courses, and obtained the right to confer master's degrees in 1986. In June 1986, the Second Naval Artillery Academy was adjusted and merged with the First and Second Naval Aviation Maintenance Schools to form the "Naval Aviation Engineering Academy", relocated from Jinxi to Yantai, and the "Naval Aviation Technical College", located in Qingdao. In 1999, the Naval Aviation Technical College was merged with the Academy and became its Qingdao Branch. In 1999, the Naval Aviation Engineering Academy was granted the right to confer professional master's degrees in engineering. In 2000, it was granted the right to confer doctoral degrees. That same year, it participated in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of all military academies and won the first place. It was awarded the "Excellent Teaching Unit of All Military Academies" by the PLA Headquarters. It won again in 2010. In 2001, it began to recruit postdoctoral researchers. In 2003, a postdoctoral research mobile station was established. In the same year, it was listed as one of the 22 academic education institutions in the entire army. Naval Aviation University In 2017, in the process of deepening national defense and military reform, all military academies in China were reformed, and the Naval Aviation College and the Naval Aviation Engineering College were merged and reorganized to form the Naval Aviation University of the People's Liberation Army. The headquarters is located in Yantai, Shandong Province, with a satellite campus and training base in Qingdao, and flight training bases in Huludao, Changzhi, Qinhuangdao, and Jiyuan. Departments and Specialties At the time of its establishment in 2017, the Naval Aviation University had 23 undergraduate majors, 6 engineering master's programs, 50 master's programs, 12 master's first-level disciplines, 18 doctoral programs, 4 doctoral first-level disciplines, 6 postdoctoral research mobile stations, within the four general fields of engineering, military science, sciences & technology, and management. There are 7 Shandong provincial-level key construction disciplines, 11 All PLA-level key construction disciplines, 1 national-level key discipline; 1 Shandong provincial-level key laboratory, 2 All PLA-level key laboratories, 1 national-level virtual experimental teaching center, and 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center. In the 2017 invitation to application, the following specialties and directions (the associated positions with the specialties) were listed: Campuses The university has two main campuses, two training centers and six field stations (场站) for training. Main campus (Erma Lu 188, Zhifu district, Yantai, Shandong) Qingdao campus (Siliu Zhonglu 2, Licang district, Qingdao, Shandong) Qingdao training base Huludao field station (Originally the 1st Flight Training Base of the Naval Aviation Academy) Changzhi field station (originally the 2nd Flight Training Base of the Naval Aviation Academy) Xingcheng field station Jiyuan field station (originally the 1st Training Base of the Naval Aviation Academy) Handan field station Xingtai field station (originally 2nd Training Base of the Naval Aviation Academy) Simulated flight training center (模拟飞行训练中心) Beijing Leadership Naval Aviation Academy Naval Aviation Engineering Academy Naval Aviation University Notable alumni Wang Zhongcai, vice admiral in the People's Liberation Army Navy. See also People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force Academic institutions of the armed forces of China Naval University of Engineering Air Force Engineering University References External links Naval Aviation University (in Chinese)Archived 2020-09-25 at the Wayback Machine