Xiamen University is one of the earliest universities in the history of higher education in China to establish aviation education. In the 1940s, Xiamen University established the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, and formed the Engineering Department with the highest level of masters at that time and the most attractive to students; it was founded in 1972 in the Department of Automation of the Department of Computing Technology and Automatic Control In the 1980s, it worked closely with China's space science and technology field.