Profile of Chongqing University of Technology
Chongqing University of Technology (CQUT) is a key multidisciplinary university in Chongqing, the only institution of higher learning in Southwest China that grows and develops on the basis of ordnance industries.CQUT started in 1940 under the name of Shiji Public School, which was the 11th Technical School attached to Ministry of Ordnance Industry, National Government. In 1999, the local government took over the university from China Ordnance Industry Co., and it was renamed Chongqing College of Engineering. Chongqing Institution of Officials for Economic Management was incorporated CQUT in 2001. With the approval of Ministry of Education, the university was renamed Chongqing University of Technology in 2009, which marks a new chapter of its development.
Located in Chongqing, a southwestern municipality directly under the Central Government, CQUT is composed of 3 campuses (Huaxi, Liangjiang and Yangjiaping), covering an area of 150 hectare. The picturesque Huaxi Campus is situated in Chongqing’s southern district - Ba’nan, standing at the bank of Yangtze River and leaning against Nanshan Mountain. Liangjiang Campus sits at the Advanced Manufacturing Industry Belt of Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, China’s third national economic zone, with Yulin River eastwards, a branch of Yangtze River, and Shibi Mountain at back. The Yangjiaping-based campus is featured by the quaint complex with green clay roof tiles. Though located in buzzy commercial center, the campus keeps a tranquil atmosphere with Tech Building standing erect in pursuit of innovative breakthroughs. With the elegant campus landscape that blends perfectly the complex with mountain and water, CQUT is awarded the first prize of Excellence in Planning & Design by Ministry of Education and is also listed as the “Top Ten Garden Institutes of Chongqing”.
The university is committed to fostering character and civil virtue in education. Currently CQUT offers master degrees with 45 academic master programs and 15 professional master programs, including10 key disciplines at provincial/ministerial level, 2 first-class disciplines in Chongqing and 2 artificial intelligence + discipline cluster. There are 65 undergraduate programs with 1 program accredited by China Engineering Education Accreditation Association (CEEAA), 4 first-class programs at national level and 6 at provincial level, 4 programs with distinctive features, 2 pilot programs and 5 discipline clusters with distinctive features. It now accommodates nearly 30,000 full-time students who study engineering, technology, liberal arts, management, economics, law and medicine programs. CQUT is honored as the Top 50 National Employment Universities, graduating over 100,000 professionals in different fields.
CQUT upholds the strategy of building its strength in talent. With 4 ministerial and provincial platforms, namely Chongqing pilot center for Talent Management Reform, Chongqing postdoc research station, Chongqing academician station and Chongqing station for introducing overseas intellectuals, the university is home to 238 excellent intellectuals who have been listed in China’s outstanding mid-aged experts, Chongqing Elites, Chongqing Liangjiang Scholars, Bayu Scholars and Chongqing One Hundred Elite Scheme of Overseas Talents. CQUT is awarded such titles as “Chongqing’s Advanced Institution for Chinese Students abroad” and “Provincial Advanced Institution for Talent Work”.
CQUT has been constantly improving its scientific research capability. It offers 43 innovation platforms at ministerial/provincial level, including a collaborative innovation center jointly owned by Ministry of Education (MOE) and Chongqing, an MOE key laboratory, an MOE international joint research laboratory and an engineering research center. The university was one of the first centers approved by MOE for commercialization of technological research results and technology transfer, and member of national collaborative innovation center - Chongqing Self-owned Brand Automobile Collaborative Center, presiding over the establishment of “Chongqing Research Institute for Automobile Intelligent Manufacturing and Testing Technology”, one of the first 5 high-end R&D institutes. In recent years, CQUT has obtained funds from over 1300 resources such as National “863” High-New Tech Project, Natural Science Fund of China, Social Science Fund of China and major research projects of Chongqing. More than 12,000 papers were published on periodicals and academic conferences both home and abroad, among which about 2200 were included in SCI, EI and ISTP. Some 300 monographs and teaching materials were published. CQUT has obtained 5 international patent licensing, 1000 open patents, 4 State Science and Technology Advancement Awards, 1 State Technological Innovation Award, 1 China Patent Gold Award and Excellence Award respectively and 147 awards at ministerial and provincial level, ranking 38th among all the universities Patent Awards.
CQUT has been dedicated to international cooperation. We have entered into extensive and in-depth partnerships with universities and institutions from over 20 countries and regions including USA, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Poland, Czech, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam and China Taiwan, in the forms of scientific research, faculty and students exchange and joint educational programs. Research centers for vehicle engineering, for instance have been co-established with University of Wisconsin-Madison and Purdue University respectively for the purpose of global automobile talents. It has constantly intensified efforts in CQUT-KAIST International Programs in pursuit of high-level IT talents production. Domestically, we have entered into partnerships with cities, districts and counties from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hebei, Sichuan and Chongqing, as well as strategic partnerships with Beijing University of Technology, Chongqing University, Sichuan International Studies University and etc. CQUT maintains close connections with China’s well-known industries like China General Technology (Group), Chongqing Chang’an Automobile Co., Ltd, Linfan Technology and Chongqing Machinery and Electronics Holding (Group) Co., Ltd to achieve collaborative innovation by universities, research institutes and industries. Eight decades of strenuous efforts have paid off. With continued commitments of generations of CQUTers, the university has gained remarkable progress in education with better education quality and greater social impacts.
Upholding the motto of Sincerely Carrying out the Good Virtues and Constantly Striving to be Self-improvement, Chongqing University of Technology will endeavor to build itself into a top applied research university with distinctive features in Western China.
