Changchun University of Science and Technology, formerly known as Changchun College of Optics and Fine Mechanics, was founded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1958 and is the first institution of higher learning in New China to train optical professionals. After more than 60 years of construction and development, the school has now become a provincial key university with distinctive optoelectronic characteristics and national defense characteristics, and is a joint construction institution of Jilin Province, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and Changchun City, enjoying the reputation of "the cradle of China's optical talents".