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Chengdu University of Technology

Chengdu University of Technology was founded on March 15, 1956, approved by the State Council. On March 27, the Ministry of Higher Education and the Ministry of Geology jointly issued a document based on the engineering sections of the Geology Department of Chongqing University, Northwest University and Nanjing University. At the same time, some cadres and teachers of the Beijing Institute of Geology and the Northeast Institute of Geology were transferred to form the Chengdu Institute of Geological Prospecting, which began to recruit undergraduates in the year it was founded. After the establishment of the school, the former Petroleum Department, the second department and the third department of the former Beijing Institute of Geology moved in successively. Chengdu Institute of Geological Prospecting was renamed Chengdu Institute of Geology in 1958. In 1960, the school began to recruit graduate students. In 1981, the school became the first batch of universities to be granted the right to confer a master's degree after the country restored the degree system, and in 1984 it was granted the right to confer a doctoral degree. Chengdu Institute of Geology was renamed Chengdu Institute of Technology in 1993. In 2001, the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of Chengdu University of Technology (merging Sichuan Commercial College and Non-ferrous Metal Geology Workers College). The school was directly under the direct administration of the Ministry of Geology, the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, and the Ministry of Land and Resources. In 2000, it was transferred to the local government and became a provincial key university jointly established by the central and local governments and mainly managed by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government. On November 3, 2010, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the People's Government of Sichuan Province signed an agreement to build a Metropolitan University of Science and Technology. In September 2017, the school entered the ranks of national first-class discipline construction universities.


After more than 60 years of construction and development, the school has become dominated by science and engineering, with geology, energy, resource science, nuclear technology, environmental science as its advantages, and chemical engineering, materials, electronics, machinery, information science, management science and other disciplines. A characteristic multidisciplinary university with the right to grant bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees, and the right to approve the qualifications of professors and doctoral supervisors. In the long-term school-running practice, the school has formed the enterprising spirit of "unwilling to be the first, dare to be the first", the academic philosophy of "exhaustive study of reason and achievement in work" and the fine tradition of "hard work and hard work".


  The school is located in the urban area of Chengdu, with a superior geographical location. The campus covers an area of 2,887 mu with a construction area of 970,000 square meters. There are currently 35,579 full-time students, including 29,827 undergraduates and 4,847 full-time postgraduates. There are 17 teaching colleges, 1 sedimentary geology institute, 1 geological survey institute, and 1 independent institute (School of Engineering and Technology, Chengdu University of Technology).


The school has 92 undergraduate majors, including 8 national-level characteristic majors, 4 national-level comprehensive professional reform projects, 12 provincial-level characteristic majors, 13 provincial-level comprehensive professional reform pilot projects, and 2 provincial-level applied demonstration majors 7 pilot majors for the national "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" (including independent enrollment direction), 19 provincial pilot majors for the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program", 1 provincial pilot major for the "Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talents Education and Training Program", There is 1 pilot major for the provincial-level "Excellent Legal Talent Education and Training Plan", and 1 pilot major for the provincial-level "Excellent Journalism and Communication Talent Education and Training Plan". The school is the "Outstanding Engineer Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education.


The school has 7 first-level discipline doctorate authorization points, 41 second-level discipline doctorate authorization points (including independent establishment of doctorate authorization points), 20 first-level discipline master degree authorization points, and 130 second-level discipline master degree authorization points Points (including enrollment fields for master's professional degrees), disciplines covering 10 disciplines including science, engineering, liberal arts, management, economics, law, philosophy, agriculture, education, and art. There are 1 first-level national key discipline, 3 second-level national key disciplines, 1 national key (cultivation) discipline, 14 provincial key disciplines, and 1 provincial key (cultivation) discipline. One discipline (earth science) has entered the top 1% of the ESI global rankings, and the earth science discipline group has been selected into the national "double first-class" construction discipline group.


   There are 3466 faculty members in the school, including 277 professors (level) and 593 associate professors (level). As of March 2018, 2 people have won the title of "National Outstanding Technical Talents", 2 "National-level Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions", 4 "National Science Fund for Outstanding Youths", 5 "China Youth Science and Technology Awards", " 1 Specially-appointed Professor of the Yangtze River Scholars Award Program of the Ministry of Education, 1 Leading Talent of the National High-Level Talent Special Support Program of the "Ten Thousand Thousand Talents Program", 7 "National Candidates for the Hundred, Thousand, Thousand Talents Project", and 3 "Members of the State Council Disciplinary Appraisal Group" There were 13 people in the “Thousand Talents Program” of Sichuan Province, 101 experts enjoying the “Special Government Allowance of the State Council”, 34 people were awarded the title of “Outstanding Experts with Outstanding Contributions in Sichuan Province”, and 72 people were awarded the title of “Academic and Technological Leaders in Sichuan Province”. There are 133 reserve candidates for academic and technical leaders in Sichuan Province, 2 national outstanding teachers, 1 national teaching teacher, 7 Sichuan teaching famous teachers, 3 Sichuan outstanding teachers, 1 Sichuan outstanding educators, and Sichuan teachers 1 German model, 1 national teaching team, 1 National Natural Science Foundation innovation group, 1 Ministry of Education "Changjiang Scholars and Innovation Team Development Program" team, 8 Sichuan Science and Technology Innovation Teams, 16 Sichuan Education The department’s science and technology innovation team and 6 Sichuan teaching teams have won 5 national teaching achievement awards. In 2007, the school was rated as an excellent unit for undergraduate teaching by the Ministry of Education. The school has won the honorary title of "Advanced Collective for Employment of College Graduates in Sichuan Province" for 7 consecutive times, and was named as "National Colleges with Typical Employment Experience for Graduates in 2011-2012" (National Top 50). In 2017, the school was rated as a national model university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform. In 2018, the school was selected as one of the top 50 universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship in the country in 2018.


The school has 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, 3 provincial virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, 7 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 provincial engineering laboratory, and 3 National Engineering Practice Education Center, 2 provincial talent training model innovation experimental areas, 8 provincial undergraduate talent training bases, 2 national off-campus practice education bases for college students, 4 provincial off-campus practice education bases for college students, it is a national college student Innovative entrepreneurship plan implementation school. There are 2 national quality courses, 2 national quality resource sharing courses, 1 national quality video open class, 34 provincial quality courses, 15 provincial quality open courses, 17 provincial quality resource sharing courses, 9 provincial-level boutique online open courses, and 3 provincial-level innovation and entrepreneurship education demonstration courses.


The school is an important national high-level talent training and scientific research base. There are 2 national key laboratories (the State Key Laboratory of Geological Disaster Prevention and Geoenvironmental Protection, the State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Development Engineering), and 1 national Key Laboratory of Environmental Protection, 3 "Sichuan 2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers" led by our school, 2 key laboratories of Sichuan Province, 1 key laboratory jointly established by the Ministry of Education and Sichuan Province, 1 Sichuan Philosophy and Social Sciences Key research base, 1 social science popularization base in Sichuan Province, 2 key laboratories of the Ministry of Land and Resources, 5 field scientific observation research bases of the Ministry of Land and Resources, 1 key laboratory of universities in Sichuan Province, 1 key experiment of Sichuan Provincial Department of Environmental Protection Office, 4 post-doctoral research mobile stations and 1 Sichuan post-doctoral innovation practice base.


  The school has successively undertaken a large number of important projects such as the national major science and technology project, the national science and technology support plan, the national natural science foundation, the national "863" plan, the national "973" plan, the national social science fund, and the national geological survey plan. As of 2017, the school has won a total of 898 national, provincial and ministerial science and technology awards (times), including the national special prize for scientific and technological progress, the first prize for national scientific and technological progress, the China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award, the second prize for national natural sciences, and Chinese patents. Awarded prizes, the third prize of National Technology Invention Award, the first prize of Sichuan Science and Technology Progress Award, and the first prize of Sichuan Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award; more than 1,200 authorized patents have been obtained. The school is committed to serving the country, industry, and local development and construction, and actively participates in the West-East Electricity Transmission, West-East Gas Transmission, South-to-North Water Diversion, Qinghai-Tibet Railway, oil and gas geological exploration, energy development, large-scale hydropower, regional and urban environments, and large-scale transportation infrastructure. Construction.


  The school is a national cultural quality education base for college students, organizing students to actively participate in scientific, technological and cultural activities. As of March 2018, college students' social practice activities have been commended by the Central Propaganda Department and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League for 11 times; in the "Challenge Cup" national college students' extracurricular scientific and technological work competition, they have won 5 national second prizes, 8 third prizes, and science and technology progress awards. (Cross Innovation Award) 2 items, 15 provincial first prizes, 31 second prizes, and 28 third prizes; won 1 national silver medal and 4 bronze medals in the "Creating Youth" college student entrepreneurship plan competition. 13 provincial first prizes, 17 second prizes, and 34 third prizes; won 32 international Meritorious Winner prizes, 159 Honorable Mention prizes, and 139 Successful Participant prizes in mathematical modeling competitions, national first prizes 67 people, 117 second prizes, 207 provincial first prizes, 326 second prizes, and 391 third prizes; won 119 national awards (times) and 157 provincial awards in various college student sports events (Times); won 559 awards (times) in various college students' art professional competitions at the national, provincial and municipal levels.


   There are 4 teaching aid units in the school. Among them, there is a natural museum with a high reputation in the west and even the whole country, which is mainly based on geoscience collections. The collection is rich in specimens, including national and world-class boutiques and treasures, such as "Hechuan Mamenxilong" and "Dazhu Chongqing "Fish", "Longchang Iron Meteorite" and so on. The school has 2 libraries, with a collection of 2.37 million printed books and periodicals, 100 digital resource databases, 4.1 million e-books, and 49,000 e-journals, forming an advantage in geoscience, energy, environment and other disciplines. A multi-discipline document resource guarantee system featuring science and engineering document resources. The school archives has rich collections and standardized management, and it is a university archives that meets the "national first-level archive management of science and technology institutions" standards. The school sponsors 6 academic journals, including 2 CSCD core journals, 2 Chinese core journals, and 4 Chinese science and technology core journals.


  The school attaches great importance to foreign exchanges and cooperation. It has established long-term industry-university-research cooperation relations with large national enterprises and scientific research institutes in the fields of resources, energy, environment, construction, military industry, and high-tech. It has established exchanges and cooperation relationships with more than 60 universities and scientific research institutions in the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Italy and other countries. Currently, 5 Sino-foreign cooperative education projects are held with British Staffordshire University, Zhishan University, and Oxford Brookes University. More than 2,500 foreign experts and international students from more than 40 countries and regions have received lectures and study abroad, more than 600 visits, and more than 300 scientific research cooperations. The school has also hosted many international academic conferences.


   The school has so far sent more than 182,000 graduates to the society. A group of scholars and experts with a certain reputation at home and abroad emerged among them, including 3 academicians of the two academies (among them, Academician Duoji is the first Tibetan academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering), and 15 winners of the "National Science Fund for Outstanding Youth" , "Changjiang Scholars Award Program" 2 people, national science and technology progress special prize and national "May 1st Labor Medal" winners many people. A large number of graduates have made important contributions to my country's economic construction and social development in the central and local governments, departments, land and resources, surveying, geology, petroleum (energy) and other industries. Their outstanding performance is generally recognized by the society.


At present, the school fully implements the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and under the leadership of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, it is jointly promoting the construction of "double first-class" in the ministry, province, city, and school. On this platform, we will seize opportunities and overcome difficulties, with heroic enthusiasm and high morale, and strive to build a high-level university with outstanding advantages and characteristics!