RESEARCH FACILITIES

Recognitions and Achievements

Through 50 years of efforts, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication has exercised important influence in the printing, publishing, and related media industries, being a unit acting as Vice Chairman of the Education Ministry’s Printing and Packaging Academic Committee, Chairman of the Printing and Packaging Academic Supervising Committee for National Junior College Education, and Chairman of the SGAPP’s Coordinating Panel for the National Higher Learning Publishing Discipline Construction. At the university are the Beijing municipal key laboratory—the Printing and Packaging Material and Technology Laboratory, the China Research Center for Editing Materials, the China Periodical Research Institute, and the Beijing Municipal Research Base for the Publishing Industry and Culture. Its backbone faculty members assume a series of important posts in the academic and trade organizations of the printing, publishing and packaging industries, playing a significant leading role in the construction and development of the printing and publishing and related disciplines. BIGC has undertaken many national key programs and projects in the printing and publishing fields, exercising a great influence within these industries and eminently indicating its distinguished position in academic exchanges, knowledge innovation, service and consultation, and high-level professional training.

Beijing Municipal Printing and Packaging Key Laboratory

This laboratory consists of the Public Testing Center, the Information Recording Material Division, the Plasma Physics and Material Division, the Printing Material Division, and Packaging Material Division. It concentrates on its main research orientations: the printing and packaging material and related applied technologies, takes as its basis the  material and related problems faced with the current industrial development, the market needs, and the enterprise requirements, and engages in pioneer research that focuses on applied materials and related technologies in printing and packaging.

The Beijing Municipal Research Base for the Publishing Industry

This base is comprised of the Communication Theory Department, the Publishing Industry and Economy Department, the Printing and Publishing History Department, the China Research Center for Editing Materials, the China Periodical Research Institute, and the Experimental Technology Center. It takes as its main subjects the communication basic theories and framework, and the application and effect analysis of the printing media and digital media, and researches on publishing communication theories, the publishing industry and economy, digital media communication, printing and publishing history etc.

The University Key Laboratories

The Printing Technology Laboratory

This laboratory consists of the Color Technology Division, and the Printing Technology Division. It is mainly engaged in research on the technological control of the printing engineering flow process, the standardization, datumization and regularization of the printing process, and printing adaptability. 

The Printing Machine Laboratory

This laboratory consists of three research divisions—Mechatronic Engineering, Printing Machinery, and Measurement and Control Technology, mainly engaged in research in mechatronic engineering, printing machinery default and detection, measurement and control technology, and related areas.

The Research Center for Digital Media Arts

This center consists of three divisions: Multimedia Network Arts, Printing Design and Art, and Media Art Theory Studies. These divisions are mainly engaged in media design and art, digital image art and communication, printing media art design and application, conceptual design and application, and aesthetics and the art industries. 

The Signal and Information Processing Laboratory

This laboratory is comprised of four divisions: Signal Detection and Processing, Digital Image Processing, Digital Copyright Protection, and Visual and Color Encoding Technology. These divisions are mainly engaged in research related to signal detection and processing, digital image processing, digital copyright protection, and vision and color encoding techniques.

CAMPUS FACILITIES

BIGC has a variety of campus facilities to meet the needs of the diverse student population. From dining to working out, from studying to getting health care, numerous facilities attend to our students’ needs.

Our intent is to create a warm, welcoming atmosphere, so students feel campus truly is their home. By providing excellent care through our various facilities and services, we strive to fulfill every student's ideal college experience.

SIE building

The main venue where you live, study and socialize, this is the home to every foreign student. It is a nine-stored building, newly equipped and furnished, and opened in 2016.

Administration Building

This building is one of the most important stops for any student at BIGC. From the beginning to the end; from the start to graduation; and from orientation to career placement, the Administration building offers important services for each and every student.

Library

BIGC academic libraries continue to grow and change responding to technological innovations while preserving primary source materials to ensure scholarly access for future generations. The University Libraries foster excitement in the process of discovery and advance teaching, learning and research through quality resources and services including over one million items.

For detailed information, please visit the official website: https://elib.bigc.edu.cn/

Printing Museum

Few universities can enjoy the privilege of having a public museum on campus. BIGC can boast of being most blessed in terms of this. The Printing Museum of China is by far the largest museum dedicated to the history of printing in the world. 

From the twilight of civilization to the age of information, the museum parades before you the memory of every step that man made in the attempt to create our own history. Renovated and reopen in early 2016, it utilizes state-of-the-art technology and design to create an illuminating and fascinating experience.

For detailed information, please visit the official website: https://www.chnpm.org/

Canteen

It is a three-stored building next to SIE. The first and second floors host stalls which cater to all nourishment needs of our students. 

The Restaurant on the third floor is THE most popular place to hang out with friends for an enjoyable meal in a relaxed ambience and at a lower price.

You can grab a sandwich or pizza from the coffee shop on the first floor, where you may also sit down over your assignment with a freshening cup of espresso.

Convenience store

Our on-campus convenience store provides students with their day-to-day necessities. It is conveniently located outside the SIE building.

Auditorium

The venue of  all important large meetings and performances, the auditorium has a capacity of over 500 seats,. 

Art gallery

The art gallery affiliated to the School of Art Design supplements and enriches the educational needs and interests of our college community. Through its exhibitions of works by students, faculty members and outside artists, the gallery promotes the visual arts and encourage a diversity of educational non-art displays. 

Sports 

New sporting facilities dot the campus, ranging from outdoors courts and track and field, indoors gyms to a new comprehensive building at the back of the grand stand. Whatever your sport is, or if you just want to keep fit, there's something here for you.

Clinic

Our walk-in clinic is two stored structure that can handle common sicknesses and dispense subscribed drugs during the opening hours.