The Chinese people's Liberation Army (PLA), located at the Lugou Bridge in southwest Beijing, belongs to the Chinese people's Liberation Army army. It is one of the national key engineering colleges, the military "2110" key construction institutions and one of the 16 educational institutions of the whole army. It is the supreme institution of Chinese people's Liberation Army armour. It has been known as "the land war" The cradle of the king, "the beautiful name."

The predecessor of the college can be traced back to the armored Engineering Department of the Military Engineering College ("Harbin army"), which was established in 1953; in 1961, the armored Engineering Department of the "Harbin army" armored corps moved from Harbin to Xi'an and established the The Academy of Armored Forces Engineering; in 1969, the College moved to Beijing from Xi'an.

By May 2015, the total area of the college was more than 6700 mu, with a total area of 650 thousand square meters. More than 85% of the teaching and research personnel had doctoral and master's degrees; there were 7 undergraduate majors.