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China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
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Official website: http://www.cup.edu.cn/
Tel：010-89733245
Address：No. 18 Fuxue Road, Changping District, Beijing
China University of Petroleum (Beijing), formerly known as Beijing Petroleum Institute, was founded in 1953. It was based on the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Petroleum Engineering of Tsinghua University, and brought together some teachers from Tianjin University and Peking University. It is the first petroleum university in New China, laying the foundation for the exploration and development of petroleum higher education in my country. The university is located in two places. The Beijing campus is located in the scenic southern foot of Jundu Mountain in Changping District, Beijing, covering an area of more than 700 acres; the Karamay campus is located in Karamay City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, known as the "City of Oil", covering an area of more than 7,000 acres. Since its establishment, the university has been a leading university in the industry that is key to national construction. In the 1960s, the university became one of the 64 key universities in the country; since the restoration of the degree system in the 1980s, it has been one of the first universities to obtain the right to confer master's degrees; since the 1990s, it has successively entered the ranks of universities in the national "211 Project" and "Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" project construction; in 2017, it entered the ranks of national "Double First-Class" construction universities. The university has always insisted on running a university rooted in China, and has made important contributions to the development of my country's petroleum and petrochemical industry and the construction of an energy power. Since its establishment, it has trained more than 300,000 outstanding professionals for the country and is known as the "cradle of petroleum talents". In July 2020 and May 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping wrote back to the graduates of the Karamay campus and the Central Asian international students, reflecting the full affirmation of the school's pursuit, achievements and contributions. The disciplines are distinctive and strong. The school adheres to the discipline construction idea of "strengthening excellence, innovation, and creating first-class", builds a discipline system with distinctive energy characteristics, and forms a discipline ecology with first-class disciplines leading and backbone disciplines and basic disciplines developing in a coordinated manner. There are currently 2 national "double first-class" disciplines and 2 Beijing high-tech disciplines. It has formed obvious advantages in disciplines such as oil and gas science and engineering, and actively deployed clean and low-carbon intelligent discipline groups in the fields of carbon neutral engineering and technology, oil and gas artificial intelligence, etc. The ESI ranking of 8 disciplines in engineering, chemistry, earth science, materials science, computer science, environment and ecology, general social science, and mathematics is in the top 1% in the world, among which engineering, chemistry, and earth science are in the top 1‰. The school integrates industry and education and educates people in an all-round way. The school currently has more than 15,000 full-time undergraduate students (including more than 6,000 in Karamay Campus), more than 7,200 master's students, more than 2,100 doctoral students, and more than 650 degree-granting international students. The school adheres to the principle of moral education and has built a large education system for comprehensive cultivation of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. There are 21 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 20 provincial and ministerial first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 5 national engineering practice education centers, and 2 national virtual teaching and research room construction pilots. It has created a first-class discipline competition group in the energy field represented by the China Petroleum Engineering Design Competition, and pioneered the national science and technology innovation competition in the oil and gas field. It has been selected as the "National Demonstration Base for the Training of Innovative Talents" of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National College Practice Education Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base of the Ministry of Education. Relying on the advantages of industry-university-research cooperation in running schools, the university has formed a model of cultivating top-notch innovative talents with distinctive industry characteristics and high-level professional talents with full-sequence industry-education integration. It is one of the first batch of pilot universities for comprehensive reform of professional degree graduate education in the country, the first batch of national engineering master and doctoral training reform pilot universities, and the first national excellent engineer college construction university in the energy field. Three bases have been rated as national industry-education integration demonstration bases. Graduates are generally welcomed by the society and employers, and the employment rate of graduates continues to remain high. Talents strengthen the school and famous teachers gather. The school insists on taking talents as the first resource, deeply implementing the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, and has established a high-level teaching staff to form a talent highland in the field of oil and gas disciplines in China. There are more than 2,000 faculty and staff (including more than 600 in Karamay Campus), including more than 1,400 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, 62% have senior professional titles and 75% have doctoral degrees. The school has built a high-level faculty team with 5 academicians of the two academies as the backbone, 49 national leading talents as the main force, and 55 national young talents as the main force. The total number of high-level talents accounts for 10% of the total number of full-time teachers. There are currently 2 Huang Danian-style teacher teams in national universities, 2 National Natural Science Foundation innovation research groups, and 3 national teaching teams. Overcome difficulties and become self-reliant in science and technology. As a high-level research university, we insist on taking scientific and technological innovation as the first driving force for development and serving the country's major strategic needs as the highest pursuit. In accordance with the idea of "building a large platform, undertaking large projects, gathering a large team, achieving great results, and making great contributions", we will build a national strategic scientific and technological force to serve the construction of the national innovation system. The number of scientific research projects per capita, scientific research funds, and especially scientific research awards of the school are among the top universities in the country. There are 2 national key laboratories of oil and gas resources and engineering, and heavy oil, 11 national science and technology innovation platform branches, 28 provincial and ministerial science and technology innovation platforms such as the key laboratory of oil and gas production safety and emergency technology, and the joint laboratory of international cooperation in unconventional oil and gas, as well as 20 branches of key laboratories of CNPC. The research advantages in the field of oil and gas are outstanding, and major achievements have been continuously produced in the fields of unconventional, deep water, deep ground, clean energy, and pipeline safety. Rapid development has been achieved in emerging research fields such as oil and gas intelligence, hydrogen energy, energy storage, and CCUS, and it has been selected as a national energy storage technology industry-education integration innovation platform. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the school won 18 national science and technology awards, including 6 second prizes of the National Technological Invention Award as the first completing unit, ranking 8th among universities in the country. The brand journals "Petroleum Science" (English version of "Petroleum Science") and "Journal of Palaeogeography" (English version of "Journal of Palaeogeography") hosted by the school were selected as national leading journals and key journals respectively, and have been selected as China's most internationally influential academic journals for consecutive years. Open education, integration of China and foreign countries. The school adheres to the principle of open education, focuses on value and contribution, and continuously improves its ability to serve national strategies, industry development, regional and local economic construction, and integrate into the global innovation network. It has carried out comprehensive strategic cooperation with leading energy industry companies such as China National Petroleum Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, and the National Pipeline Network, and has built joint research institutes with many places to strengthen the precise connection between the innovation chain and the industrial chain. It actively integrates into the construction of the "four centers" in Beijing, cultivates and expands the "new industrial cluster", and the joint research institute built in the "Energy Valley" of Beijing Future Science and Technology City was selected as a typical case of the "Double Hundred Plan" for school-enterprise cooperation at the China Education Expo. It actively builds an international exchange and cooperation network and platform, advocates and initiates the establishment of the World Energy University Alliance, and 33 energy-related universities in 17 countries on five continents participate in it. It was elected as the leader of the "Belt and Road" Energy Cooperation Partnership Network University (Youth) Working Group, the world's first "Carbon Neutrality and Climate Change Driven Green Transformation" Chair, and the BRICS Youth Energy Summit and International Energy Youth Conference were written into the "Beijing Declaration of the 14th BRICS Leaders' Meeting". It was selected as one of the first batch of "Belt and Road" national talent training base projects in Beijing, and has become an active leader in global energy education cooperation. Culture educates people and passes on the torch. The school inherits the red gene, insists on integrating the spirit of Daqing and the iron man into the whole process of moral education, and demonstrates it in all aspects of school management, cultivates the value pursuit of energy power and energy serving the country in the new era, and promotes school development and serves social progress with distinctive university culture. The school spirit of "seeking truth from facts and hard work", the style of study of "diligence, rigor, truth-seeking, and innovation", the teaching style of "learning as a teacher, establishing morality and words", the school motto of "accumulating knowledge and making breakthroughs, opening up things and accomplishing tasks", the school song "I Dedicate Oil to the Motherland", and the spirit of "seeking truth from facts, hard work, patriotic dedication, pioneering and innovation" have become the bright cultural symbols of the school, and "going to the place where the motherland needs it most" has become the conscious action of teachers and students. Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", the school has won the first prize of the National Outstanding Party Building Achievements, the Beijing University Party Building and Ideological and Political Work Featured Project, the Capital University Students Ideological and Political Work Effectiveness Award, and 8 ideological and political work construction projects of the Ministry of Education, and has been awarded the title of "Capital Civilized Campus" for consecutive years. Based on the new era, shouldering new missions. Facing the "dual carbon" goals and the transformation and upgrading needs of the energy industry, the school has ushered in greater development opportunities. The school will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, fully implement the Party's education policy, implement the spirit of the 12th Party Congress of the school, implement the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, adhere to the integrated promotion of education, science and technology, and talents, and deeply implement the four major strategies of "characteristic development, innovation-driven, open integration, and talent-driven school". With "green empowerment, intelligent empowerment, and governance empowerment" as the three major driving forces, the school strides forward towards the grand goal of becoming a world-class research university with distinctive characteristics in the energy field, and contribute to the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation.