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About Chengdu University of Technology

Chengdu University of Technology was founded on March 15, 1956. In September 2017, the school entered the ranks of national first-class discipline construction universities. On December 26, 2019, our school became a “double first-class” construction university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and Sichuan Province.

The school has two campuses in Chengdu and Yibin. The school headquarters is located in the main urban area of Chengdu, with a superior geographical location, covering an area of 2,887 acres and a school building area of 970,000 square meters. Yibin campus is located in Sanjiang New District, Yibin City, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with a beautiful environment, covering an area of 1,000 acres and a planned building area of 430,000 square meters. The school currently has 36,388 full-time students, including 30,392 undergraduates, 5996 full-time postgraduates, and 119 part-time postgraduates. The school has a total of 20 teaching colleges, 1 sedimentary geology institute, and 1 geological survey institute. There is also an independent college (School of Engineering and Technology, Chengdu University of Technology).

The school has 74 undergraduate enrollment majors, including 15 national-level first-class majors, 8 national-level characteristic majors, 4 national-level comprehensive professional reform projects, 38 provincial-level first-class majors, 12 provincial-level characteristic majors, and comprehensive provincial-level majors. There are 13 reform pilot projects, 1 provincial-level “Curriculum Ideological and Political” demonstration major, and 4 provincial-level applied demonstration majors; the school is a university of the Ministry of Education “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program”, including the national “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program” 7 pilot majors (including independent enrollment direction), 19 pilot majors of the provincial “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program”, 1 pilot major of the provincial “Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talents Education and Training Program”, and provincial “Excellent Legal Talents Education and Training Program” 1 pilot major and 1 pilot major of the provincial “Excellent Journalism and Communication Talent Education and Training Plan”. The school has 4 national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 4 national-level virtual simulation experimental projects, 3 national-level engineering practice education centers, and 2 national off-campus practice education bases for college students. It is a national-level college student innovation and entrepreneurship plan implementation school. It has 11 national-level first-class courses and 114 provincial-level first-rate undergraduate courses.

The school has 7 first-level discipline doctorate authorization points and 22 first-level discipline master degree authorization points. The disciplines cover 10 disciplines including science, engineering, literature, management, economics, law, philosophy, agriculture, education, and art. There are 1 first-level national key discipline (geological resources and geological engineering), 3 second-level national key disciplines (geological engineering, mineral survey and exploration, earth exploration and information technology), and 1 national key (cultivation) discipline (mineralogy) , Petrology, mineral deposits), 14 provincial key disciplines (applied chemistry, environmental engineering, solid geophysics, geotechnical engineering, paleontology and stratigraphy (including paleoanthropology), signal and information processing, structural geology , Geochemistry, Oil and Gas Field Development Engineering, Quaternary Geology, Materials Science, Nuclear Technology and Application, Management Science and Engineering, Mineralogy, Petrology, Mineral Deposit Science), 1 provincial key (cultivation) discipline (applied mathematics) . Two disciplines (earth science, engineering) have entered the top 1% of ESI’s global rankings, and geology has entered the national “double first-class” construction disciplines. “Earth Science” and “Environmental Science and Ecology” have entered the ranks of “first-class disciplines” in Sichuan Province.

The school has 3,608 faculty members, including 442 professors (level) and 776 associate professors (level). Academician Liu Baojun of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was specially appointed as the honorary president. There are 58 high-end experts (academicians) in flexible intelligence introduction. As of March 2021, 152 people have won the title of national talent and the national talent plan, including 5 “National Outstanding Youth Fund winners”, 5 “national young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions”, and “State Council Discipline Review Group” “Members” 3 person-times, “China Youth Science and Technology Award” 5 person-times; 447 person-times won the provincial talent title and selected into the provincial talent plan, including 100 academic and technical leaders in Sichuan Province; 3 national outstanding teachers, national teaching teachers 1 person, 7 outstanding teachers in Sichuan Province, 3 outstanding teachers in Sichuan Province, 3 outstanding teachers in Sichuan Province for teaching and educating people, 1 outstanding educator in Sichuan Province, 1 pacesetter for teacher ethics in Sichuan Province; 1 national-level teaching team , 6 Sichuan province teaching teams, 1 Sichuan province “curriculum ideological and political” demonstration teaching team; won 5 national teaching achievement awards.

The school is an important national high-level talent training and scientific research base. There are 2 state key laboratories (the State Key Laboratory of Geological Disaster Prevention and Geological Environmental Protection, the State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Development Engineering), and 1 education Key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 1 subject innovation and intelligence introduction base of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Education, 2 key laboratories of the Ministry of Natural Resources, 1 National Key Laboratory of Environmental Protection, 2 Field Scientific Observation and Research Bases of the Ministry of Natural Resources, 1 Sichuan Province New-type think tanks, 1 China Think Tank Index (CTTI) source think tanks, 3 Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratories, 1 Sichuan Engineering Research Center, 1 Sichuan Engineering Laboratory, 1 Sichuan International Science and Technology Cooperation Base, 2 Sichuan Provincial Key Research Base for Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2 Sichuan Provincial Social Science Popularization Bases, 1 Sichuan Provincial University Key Laboratory, 1 Sichuan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Key Laboratory, 6 Postdoctoral Research Mobile Stations, and 1 Sichuan Postdoctoral Innovation Practice base, 3 “Sichuan 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center” led by our school. The school has 1 National Natural Science Foundation innovation group, 1 Ministry of Education “Changjiang Scholars and Innovation Team Development Program” team, 12 Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Team, 16 Sichuan Provincial Department of Education Science and Technology Innovation Team, and 1 Sichuan Provincial Social Science High-level research team.

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, 4 Sino-foreign cooperative education projects are held with the United Kingdom’s Staffordshire University and Oxford Brookes University. In 2019, the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of a Sino-foreign cooperative education institution, Oxford Brookes College, Chengdu University of Technology. It has received more than 2,800 foreign experts and international students from more than 40 countries and regions to give lectures and study abroad, more than 700 visits, more than 300 scientific research cooperations, and many international academic conferences.

The school has been awarded the honorary title of “Advanced Collective for Employment of College Graduates in Sichuan Province” and was selected as one of the top 50 universities in the country with typical employment experience for graduates in 2011-2012. In 2016, the school was approved as Sichuan Province Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Club and Sichuan Province Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform Demonstration University. 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 in the country with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship in 2018.

So far, the school has trained nearly 210,000 outstanding talents for the society. Among them, a group of scholars and experts with a certain reputation at home and abroad have emerged, including 4 academicians of the two academies (Academician Liu Baojun, Academician Duoji, Academician Wang Chengshan, Academician Cui Peng). 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, and their outstanding performance is generally recognized by the society.