Huazhong University of Science and Technology has established the Built Heritage Research Centre as a research platform and academic community based on the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. We are dedicated to building heritage and excellent traditional culture, and to achieving important results in the areas of research and interpretation, education and popularization, conservation and heritage transmission, innovation and development, and dissemination and exchange. It focuses on the built environment and development of villages, to achieve value gain and sustainable development of the countryside by making the past new. The working team serves national development strategies such as precise poverty alleviation, rural construction and the regeneration of historic districts.