Preface of special issue for the 70th anniversary of USTB

From 1952 to 2022, the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) has gone through an incredible journey of 70 years. From its beginning as the Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Technology,China’s first higher institute of mining and metallurgy disciplines, to its selection as one of China’s key universities of “Project 211”, and then as a national “Double First-Class”(the World First-Class University and First-Class Academic Discipline Construction) university, USTB has developed into a multidisciplinary research-orientated university with distinctive characteristics.