Since P. R. China was founded in 1949, the main approach of training heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) engineers and technicians is by professional education in a few universities and two-year colleges and technical schools/polytechnics. After economic reform of the 80s, higher education in China has been well developed, and universities have become the main resource of educating HVAC engineers for design and R & D. Meanwhile, some universities are involved in higher vocational education of HVAC engineers and technicians who will be in charge of system operation and management. Some technical schools offering subject area of hotel services management also train HVAC technicians and skilled workers for hotel HVAC&R system installation, operation and maintenance. The Chinese higher education in the HVAC field started in the beginning of 50s. Following the education system and the subject setting of the former Soviet Union, the undergraduate program of 'Heating, ventilating and gas supplying' was first set up in 1952 in the following universities: Harbin Technical University, Tongji University, Northeast Institute of Technology, and Tsinghua University. These universities started admitting undergraduate students of HVAC subject since 1953, and the first two-year college students graduated in 1954. Until 1966, a total of eight Chinese universities have undergraduate courses in the HVAC subject, graduating about 500 students per year.
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