Chongqing Jiaotong University

　　Founded in 1951, Chongqing Jiaotong University is a multi-disciplinary university offering a full range of programs in engineering, management, science, economics, and liberal arts, and featuring a comprehensive talent development system that includes bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees.

　　The university originated from the Southwest Communications Specialized School established in 1951 under the military and political committee led by [leader]. In 1960, the Civil Engineering Department of Chengdu Institute of Technology, the Hydraulic Engineering Department of Wuhan Water Transport Institute, and the Metallurgy Department of Sichuan Metallurgy Institute were merged to form Chongqing College of Communications. In 2006, it was renamed Chongqing Jiaotong University upon approval by the Ministry of Education.

　　Located on the banks of the Yangtze River in Nan’an District, Chongqing, the university covers an area of over 1,600 acres, with a building area of more than 600,000 square meters. It has teaching equipment worth over 130 million yuan, a library with more than 1.4 million volumes of printed books and over 700,000 electronic documents, and a modern campus broadband network.

　　The university currently enrolls over 20,000 full-time students at various levels.

　　The university began enrolling undergraduates in 1960, became a master’s degree-granting institution in 1985, and a doctoral degree-granting institution in 2006. It now offers three doctoral programs, four first-level master’s disciplines, 27 second-level master’s disciplines, six engineering master’s training fields, three higher education master’s programs, 44 regular undergraduate programs, and 28 vocational programs. It also has the authority to award master’s degrees to those with equivalent qualifications. The university has built one national quality education base, six qualified basic teaching laboratories for regular higher education institutions in Chongqing, and two experimental teaching demonstration centers in Chongqing. There are seven provincial and ministerial key disciplines, one Ministry of Education-funded engineering research center, one key laboratory of the Ministry of Transport, two Chongqing municipal engineering technology centers, two Chongqing municipal industry development research centers, and one Chongqing municipal humanities and social sciences key research base.

　　The university has 30 laboratories (centers), including nine jointly built by central and local governments. Six laboratories—mechanics, materials, surveying, electronics and electrical engineering, physics, and chemistry—are qualified basic teaching laboratories for regular higher education institutions in Chongqing. The Mechanics Experimental Center and Materials Experimental Center are experimental teaching demonstration centers in Chongqing. The university owns the “Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center for Mountain Bridge Structures and Materials,” which is under construction with funding from the Ministry of Education. It also hosts the “Key Laboratory of Hydraulic and Waterway Engineering,” jointly established by the Ministry of Education and Chongqing Municipality, the “Key Laboratory of Bridge Structure Engineering” of the Ministry of Transport, as well as the “Structural Engineering Laboratory,” “Transportation Engineering Laboratory,” and “Mountain Road Construction and Maintenance Technology Laboratory.”

　　There are also four Chongqing municipal key laboratories, including the “Key Laboratory of Hydraulic and Waterway Engineering,” two Chongqing municipal engineering technology centers—the “Chongqing Shipping Engineering Technology Research Center” and the “Chongqing Higher Education Institutions Hydraulic Structures Health Diagnosis Technology and Equipment Engineering Research Center”—two municipal research centers, including the “Chongqing Automobile and Motorcycle Parts Industry Development Research Center” and the “Chongqing Shipping Development Research Center,” and the Chongqing municipal humanities and social sciences base, the “Western Transportation and Economic and Social Development Research Center.” One national quality education base has been established.

　　The university boasts a strong faculty. It has over 1,700 staff members, including over 1,000 full-time teachers, more than 470 professors and associate professors, and over 60% of teachers holding doctoral or master’s degrees. Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering—Zheng Jielian, Han Qiwu, and Liang Yingchen—are specially appointed professors at the university. The university also has

　　six national-level candidates of the “National Program for Thousand Talents,”

　　two “National Experts with Outstanding Contributions,” over 120 provincial and ministerial-level experts including top-tier candidates of the Ministry of Transport’s “Ten-Hundred-Thousand Talents Program,” leading scientific and technological talents of the Ministry of Transport, the first batch of academic and technical leaders of Chongqing, and recipients of the State Council Special Allowance. The university has also hired over 150 renowned scholars and experts from China and abroad, including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering and foreign academicians, as part-time professors.

　　The university has strong research capabilities and has achieved significant results in serving local economic development, especially in areas such as arch bridge construction technology, inland waterway navigation, and port and channel construction. In the past five years, it has undertaken nearly 70 national-level research projects, including those under the National Science and Technology Key Projects, the National 863 Program, the National Major Basic Research Preparatory Projects, the National Natural Science Foundation, and the Major Projects of the Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, as well as over 300 provincial and ministerial-level research projects. In 2006, the research funding reached 92 million yuan, and in 2007, it approached 117 million yuan. Following the National Invention Award in 1996 and the Second and Third Class National Science and Technology Progress Awards in 1998, since 2000, the university has won one First Class and one Second Class National Science and Technology Progress Award, one Second Class National Teaching Achievement Award, a total of three awards, as well as over 120 provincial and ministerial-level research and teaching achievement awards. Twelve scientific and technological achievements have been listed as key national and provincial promotion projects. The university publishes three academic journals. The journal Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, edited by Academician Qian Weichang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and hosted by the university, is indexed by SCI and EI and is distributed worldwide in Chinese and English editions to over 50 countries and regions. The Journal of Chongqing Jiaotong University (Natural Science Edition) is a core journal of China’s science and technology.

　　The university maintains good teaching quality, and its graduates are in high demand. Its talent development system, centered around quality education, and its innovative practices in student party building, highlighted by the Party Member Reception Room, have promoted all-round development of students and earned widespread praise from society. Students have high comprehensive qualities and strong application skills, having won numerous awards such as the National Gold Award in the “Challenge Cup” for University Students and First Prizes in the National College Students Mathematical Modeling Competition. The initial employment rate of undergraduate graduates has exceeded 90% for ten consecutive years. In 2000, the university was awarded the title of “National Advanced Collective for Graduate Employment Work in Regular Higher Education Institutions.” In 2003, during the assessment of graduate employment work in Chongqing, the university received an “Excellent” rating and ranked first. Over the years of operation,

　　the university has trained over 50,000 graduates for the nation, including Chinese Academy of Engineering Academician Zheng Jielian, Liu Xiaofeng, Vice Governor of Sichuan Province, Zhou Zhewei, Executive Vice President of Shanghai University, Meng Fanchao, a National Survey and Design Master, and the first group of China’s “Top Ten Bridge Figures”—He Zhijun, Meng Fanchao, Xie Bangzhu, Liu Xianpeng, and Sun Yun. Most of them have grown into technical and managerial backbones in China’s economic and social development, especially in the transportation sector.

　　The university admits international students from various countries and conducts academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation with higher education institutions and research organizations in over 30 countries and regions, including the United States, Russia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, and Australia. It has established long-term friendly cooperative relationships with many overseas universities and research organizations.

　　The remarkable achievements of the university’s development have been fully recognized by the Party, government, and society. Leaders such as [leader], [leader], [leader], Chen Zhili, and Qian Weichang have visited the university. In recent years, the university has been awarded national honors including “National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization,” “Special Prize for Innovation in Ideological and Political Work by the Half-Month Talk,” “National Advanced Unit in Spiritual Civilization Construction,” “National Model Workers’ Home,” and “National Advanced Collective in the Educational System.”

　　Looking to the future, Chongqing Jiaotong University will continue to focus on talent cultivation, follow educational principles, adapt to societal needs, base itself in Chongqing, serve the western region, contribute to the local economy and transportation industry, actively engage in education, teaching, scientific research, and social services, and strive to build itself into a teaching and research-oriented university with engineering as its main focus and coordinated development across engineering, management, science, economics, and liberal arts.