Institute of Disaster Prevention-University of Emergency Management
Langfang, Hebei province

In January 2026, the inaugural ceremony for the University of Emergency Management was held, marking the formal merger of the North China Institute of Science and Technology and the Institute of Disaster Prevention to establish the university.

Situated in the eastern-central part of Hebei Province, Langfang City borders Beijing in the north, Tianjin in the east, Cangzhou in the south, and Baoding in the west. It is in the central area around Bohai Sea, and is regarded as a nexus linking Beijing and Tianjin.

Physical Features: The terrain of the city is low and flat. Depressions and dunes can both be found in this area. Its northern part is mainly comprised of hills and mountain areas. But the central and southern part of the city is alluvial plain which is much lower in altitude.

Autumn is the best season in which to visit there
    

                      Grand Epoch City                                            Nature Park

Special Local Products
Foods: pear, walnut, golden thread small jujube
Handicrafts: willow knitting of Gu'an County, cloisonné

 

Tourist Tips:
This city is only a 20 or 30 minute ride from Beijing and Tianjin respectively. There are buses and trains daily from this city to Beijing and Tianjin departing every 15 to 20 minutes. Many trains go to Beijing and Tianjin via the city, the trip taking about one hour.
Langfang New Century Walk Street is a good shopping destination which is located in the central downtown area. The European style architecture of the street truly provides a feast for the eye. In addition, the city has rich geothermal resources. It is a wonderful idea to have a spa in the Mingtang Hotspring in Bazhou City.

Introduction of the school

Institute of Disaster Prevention (IDP) was established by State Seismological Bureau (later China Seismological Bureau) in 1975. In 1985, it was promoted as the College of Seismology Techniques, and renamed IDP by the former State Education Committee in 1992. It is shortened to IDP in 2009.
Under the administration of China Earthquake Administration―(CEA, former China Seismological Bureau), IDP is now the only higher educational institute of disaster prevention and reduction in China.
IDP is located in Yanjiao economic development zone of Sanhe City, Hebei province, which is only 30 kilometers away from Tian’anmen Square in the center of Beijing. The campus with beautiful surroundings covers an area of 100 acres and a total floor space of 250,000 m2. There are fresh air and beautiful surroundings.

                                                        Main Gate

As of December 2024, the university covers an area of 912,900 square meters. As of July 2025, the university comprises 18 secondary colleges and offers a total of 77 undergraduate programs. As of July 2025, the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment at the university is 805 million yuan, and the university library houses over 2.6 million volumes. The university has a student enrollment of approximately 26,400 and a full-time teaching staff of over 1,500. 

 
                     School Library                                         No.6 Teaching Building

Revolving around national disaster prevention and reduction business, IDP dedicates to improving its personnel cultivation system via focusing on specialties construction in the field of disaster prevention and reduction.
Based on the field of disaster prevention and reduction and geared to the needs of economic and social development, IDP sticks to the principle of “Humanistic Administration, Characteristic Management, Strengthening School with Talents, Harmonious campus” and the idea of “Optimizing Structure, Deepening the Reform, Enhancing Features, Improving Quality”, and has developed a multi-level, multi-type and multi-form modern school system including postgraduate education, adult academic credentials education, vocational and technical training in order to cultivate high-quality specialists with innovation and practice ability to meet the need of the society.
 
For many years, IDP has been propelling the construction of disciplines and specialities, while focusing on the profession and aiming at serving the society. It has greatly improved its talents’ cultivating quality and enhanced its scientific research power and social service level and became the core base for cultivating basic personnels in national disaster prevention and reduction business. Motivated by the school motto, “Enhance virtue and wisdom, and relieve disasters and dangers.”, all faculty and students are devoting to building IDP into a talent cultivating base, a technology innovation center, a cultural radiation center and an information exchange center with moderate scale, reasonable structure, good quality, outstanding features, and concentration on specialities in disaster prevention and reduction.

 

Qualifications:
1. Minimum qualifications are a native English speakers
2. A Bachelor Degree plus a TEFL certificate
3. Teaching experience   

Overtime pay: 70 RMB per hour

Contract period: 1st Sep, 2026 - 31st Aug, 2027
                              1st Mar, 2027 - 29th Feb, 2028     
Literature teacher: 1

Business English teacher: 1

Education: Bachelor's Degree / Master's Degree / Ph.D Degree  

Major: English Literature 

          Business or Finance major

Course content: English Literature, British and American Culture, Business English courses, Conversational English

Monthly Salary: RMB13,600 for Bachelor degree, RMB18,400 for Master degree, PhD (Negotiable);  overtime pay: 70 RMB per hour

Teaching hours :12 hours per week 
Accommodation: A private furnished apartment with two bedrooms, one living room will be provided on school campus.
Airfare allowance:  round-trip airfare will be reimbursed no more than RMB10,000 on completion of the contract        

Medical care: university will buy insurance for the teacher.            
Vacation: All major Chinese holidays. Summer and winter holiday pay with 60% of monthly salary

Visas and work permit: university provides assistance in obtaining the proper visa, licenses and residence permit that permit the candidate to work in China.  

Closet Airport: Beijing Daxing International Airport