The School of Resource Engineering of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology can be traced back to September 1958 when the major of mining engineering began to enroll students. It is the only department of metal mineral resources development that the former Ministry of Metallurgy set up in northwest China. In 1960, the Department of Mining Engineering was set up independently, with four majors of mining, mineral processing, mining construction and mining machinery. There were more than 800 students and more than 100 teachers in the school. It was one of the major departments of the school at that time. In 1972, the mining machinery discipline became an independent electromechanical department, and the mining construction discipline was incorporated into the mining discipline; In 1984, it was approved as a Master of Mining Engineering. In 1986, the...