After the overthrow of the Manchu government and the establishment of the Republic in 1911, the new Republican government opened the Army Institute of Technology in the city of Hankow to train high school students for three years in science and technology related to national defense.
在軍事教育方面，民國成立以後，國民政府在漢陽成立陸軍理工學校，招收高中畢業學生，實施三年國防科技訓練。