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Changzhou University
China

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Official website: http://www.cczu.edu.cn
Tel：0519-86334485,0519-86330566
Address：Science and Education City Campus: No. 21, Gehu Middle Road, Wujin District, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province; West Taihu Campus: No. 2468, Yanzheng West Avenue, Wujin District, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province
Changzhou University is located in Changzhou, Jiangsu, a famous historical and cultural city in the south of the Yangtze River with a prosperous economy and rich humanities. It is a provincial full-time undergraduate college jointly established by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province, China National Petroleum Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation and China National Offshore Oil Corporation, and a university under the Jiangsu High-level University Construction Peak Plan. The school was founded in 1978 and was formerly the Wuxi Branch and Changzhou Branch of Nanjing Institute of Chemical Technology. In 1981, with the approval of the State Council, the school was named Jiangsu Institute of Chemical Technology; in 1984, the joint school-running mechanism of the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and China Petrochemical Corporation was implemented; in 1992, it became a ministry-affiliated college managed by China Petrochemical Corporation (formerly China Petrochemical Corporation) and was renamed Jiangsu Petrochemical College; in 2000, a management system jointly built by the central and local governments and managed mainly by Jiangsu Province was implemented; in 2001, Jiangsu Commercial Technical School was merged into Jiangsu Petrochemical College; in 2002, the school was renamed Jiangsu Institute of Technology; in 2010, it was renamed Changzhou University with the approval of the Ministry of Education. After 46 years of development, the school has now established a complete bachelor-master-doctor talent training system and a multi-level scientific research and social service system. In 2020, the school ranked 129th in the country in the Soft Science China University Rankings. The school takes "responsibility" as its motto, adheres to the school spirit of "brave responsibility and pursuing excellence" and the school philosophy of "people-oriented, education-oriented, open schooling, and coordinated development". The three major school-running characteristics of petroleum and petrochemicals, innovation and entrepreneurship, and red culture are constantly highlighted, and actively cultivate high-quality innovative talents with ideals, beliefs, patriotism, scientific spirit, collaborative quality, and international vision to serve the country's economic and social development. The school has complete infrastructure and excellent school conditions. There are two campuses, Science and Education City and West Taihu, with a total of 29,126 students, including 23,532 full-time undergraduates, 4,990 doctoral and master's students (including 357 part-time master's students), and 604 international students. The school has a relatively complete range of disciplines and distinct disciplinary characteristics, covering ten major disciplines, including engineering, science, management, economics, literature, law, art, medicine, agriculture, and education. There are currently 2 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 15 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, and 19 professional master's degree authorization points. It has 3 provincial advantageous disciplines and 8 provincial "14th Five-Year Plan" key disciplines. It has 4 ESI top 1% disciplines: chemistry, materials science, engineering, and environmental ecology. Among them, chemistry and engineering are ranked in the top 3‰ of the global ESI disciplines, and materials science is ranked in the top 4‰ of the global ESI disciplines. In the 2022 Soft Science China Best Discipline Ranking, 10 disciplines including law, Marxist theory, chemistry, materials science and engineering, power engineering and engineering thermophysics, computer science and technology, chemical engineering and technology, environmental science and engineering, safety science and engineering, and business administration are on the list. The school has a sound talent training system and the quality of training is constantly improving. There are 68 undergraduate majors, including 3 national featured majors, 19 national first-class major construction sites, 2 Ministry of Education professional comprehensive reform pilot projects, and 15 China Engineering Education Certification majors; 19 national first-class courses, 1 national quality textbook, and 10 planning textbooks; 1 national modern industrial college approved; 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, 2 national virtual simulation experimental teaching projects, 1 national innovation and entrepreneurship college, and 1 national off-campus practical education base for college students; 2 first prizes and 1 second prize for national teaching achievements in higher education. The school is a national demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, the first batch of national innovation and entrepreneurship college construction units, and the first batch of innovation and entrepreneurship practice education centers for college students in Jiangsu Province. The school won 7 gold medals, 7 silver medals, and 13 bronze medals in the China International College Student Innovation Competition (formerly the "Internet +" Competition); won 4 special prizes, 5 first prizes, 9 second prizes, and 15 third prizes in the "Challenge Cup" National College Student Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, and won the "Champion Cup" in 2017; won 6 gold medals, 5 silver medals, and 8 bronze medals in the "Challenge Cup" China College Student Entrepreneurship Plan Competition, achieving "five consecutive gold medals" in the national competition, and won the "Champion Cup" in 2020 and 2023. The school has a reasonable faculty structure and excellent teacher quality. There are 2,567 faculty members and 1,893 full-time teachers. 810 full-time teachers hold middle and senior professional and technical positions, and full-time teachers with doctoral degrees account for 75.7%. The university has 1 academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering, 1 academician of the European Academy of Natural Sciences, 2 winners of the National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund, 3 national candidates of the "Million Talents Project", 2 candidates of the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education, 11 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 2 national teaching masters; 1 Huang Danian-style teacher team in national universities; the school currently has more than 390 provincial talents such as Jiangsu Province's "Double Innovation Talents", "333 Project", "Distinguished Professors", "Qinglan Project", etc.; 16 teams including the provincial "Double Innovation Team", "Qinglan Project" science and technology innovation and teaching team, and "Six Talent Peaks" innovation talent team. The school has been rated as "Advanced University for Teacher Team Construction in Jiangsu Province" and "Advanced Unit for Education Talent Work in Jiangsu Province" for many consecutive years. The school emphasizes independent innovation and comprehensively promotes effective scientific research. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the school has won 1 second prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 second prize in the National Technological Invention Award, 1 China Patent Silver Award, 2 China Patent Excellence Awards, 1 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Award, 1 first prize in the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements Award for Higher Education Institutions (Science and Technology), 6 second prizes, and 193 provincial, ministerial and industry scientific research achievement awards; 1 second prize, 2 third prizes, and 1 Youth Achievement Award in the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements Award for Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences), and 1 project was selected into the National Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Library; obtained 502 national scientific research projects, including 25 major and key projects; more than 5,800 academic papers have been included in SCI, EI, CPCI, CSSCI, etc., and nearly 3,000 invention patents have been authorized. The school has 1 national-local joint engineering research center, 1 national key laboratory (cultivation point), 19 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 2 provincial collaborative innovation centers, 15 provincial humanities and social sciences research bases, 1 national university science and technology park, 1 provincial science and technology enterprise incubator, 1 university student innovation and entrepreneurship park, and 2 provincial maker spaces. The school has established an innovation consortium with China National Petroleum Corporation, and has established comprehensive cooperative relations with more than 50 large petroleum and petrochemical enterprises and more than 70 county-level governments and above. It has jointly built 38 provincial engineering technology centers, 56 school-enterprise joint R&D centers, 550 industry-university-research bases, and 480 school-enterprise alliances with enterprises. In 2016 and 2021, the school won the "China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Award". The school adheres to open education and continuously promotes high-quality international cooperation. Focusing on student exchanges, academic exchanges, and scientific research cooperation, it has established close cooperative relations with more than 60 universities in more than 30 countries and regions. It has jointly organized five Sino-foreign cooperative education projects with Maynooth University in Ireland, St. Xavier University in Canada, and Kharkiv University of Arts and Crafts in Ukraine, including electronic information engineering, pharmaceutical engineering, computer science and technology, information management and information systems, and art design (master). It has completed one high-level demonstration construction project for Sino-foreign cooperative education in provincial universities, two provincial international talent training brand professional construction projects, and two provincial international cooperation joint laboratories. The school has passed the quality certification of universities studying in China, and is a Chinese language education base of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. There are currently foreign students from more than 40 countries studying at the school. It has co-built the first Confucius Institute in Venezuela with the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, and co-built the largest Confucius classroom in Europe with the Andalusian Department of Education Development and Vocational Training in Spain. It has think tank platforms such as the Thailand Research Center, the Latin American Research Center, and the Israel Cultural Research Center to help cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. The school has been awarded the honorary titles of "National Model Workers' Home", "National May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee", "Jiangsu Civilized Campus", "Jiangsu Advanced Unit for Educational Talent Work", "Advanced Collective of Ideological and Political Education Work in Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province", "Advanced Colleges and Universities in Science and Technology in Jiangsu Province", "Excellent Unit for Informatization Construction of Higher Education Institutions in Jiangsu Province", "Advanced Collective of University Libraries in Jiangsu Province", "Jiangsu High-quality and Safe Campus Construction Colleges and Universities", and "Jiangsu Garden-style Campus". At present, Changzhou University is in a critical period of fully promoting the construction of high-level universities in Jiangsu Province and fully completing the goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan". The school leads high-quality development with high-quality party building, focuses on moral education and strengthens connotation construction through strategic cooperation and interaction based on local areas, serving the industry, facing the international community, and integrating prosperity with it. All teachers, students and staff work together to innovate and strive to build a high-level local leading university with distinctive characteristics.