China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) is one of the key national universities under the direct administration of the Chinas Ministry of Education. It is also one of the universities which host a graduate school with the approval of the Ministry of Education, and one of that in the national “211 project”, a government program designed to support and improve top-level institutions of higher learning in China. CUMT grew out of Jiaozuo School of Railroad and Mines, which was establishe