On June 12, 2018, Shanxi Province's National Defense Science and Technology Industry studying Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the party's 19th National Spiritual Training Course was held in the classroom 241 of the main building of Beijing Institute of Technology. Shi Guobing, deputy secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Defense Science and Technology Industry Party Committee, Ren Junping, deputy director of the Shanxi Provincial Defense Science and Technology Industry Party Members Education Center, and Yang Zhihong,  director of the Beijing Institute of Technology Inspection Committee, Yan ZhiJun, deputy dean of the School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, and assistant dean Chen Xiang, director of the professional degree education joint center, and the students from the military industry enterprises in various cities in Shanxi attended the opening ceremony. The ceremony was hosted by Yang Yan, deputy director of the Joint Degree Education Center and Director of the EDP Program at the School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology.