Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Founded in 1958, Beijing University of Chemical Technology was formerly known as Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology. It is a high-level university established by New China to "cultivate advanced chemical technology talents needed for cutting-edge scientific development". As a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, a key construction university of the national "211 Project" and "'985' Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform", and a national "first-class discipline" construction university, Beijing University of Chemical Technology shoulders the mission of cultivating high-level innovative talents and basic, forward-looking scientific research and original high-tech development.

After more than 60 years of construction, Beijing University of Chemical Technology has developed into a multidisciplinary key university with a solid foundation in science, strong strength in engineering, and distinctive disciplines such as management, economics, law, literature, education, philosophy, and medicine. It has formed a multi-level talent training pattern from undergraduate education to master's degree, doctoral degree, postdoctoral mobile station, and international student education. At present, the school has a total of 17 colleges, more than 15,400 full-time undergraduates, more than 8,500 graduate students (including more than 1,300 doctoral students), more than 2,200 students in correspondence, night school and other continuing education, and more than 360 academic students.

The school has a strong faculty team. The university has vigorously implemented the strategy of "strengthening the university with talents". It currently has more than 2,700 faculty members, including 13 academicians of the two academies (including 1 foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and 5 dual-appointed academicians), 5 other national academicians, 12 distinguished professors and 5 young scholars of the "Changjiang Scholars Program" of the Ministry of Education, 24 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 30 winners of the National Excellent Youth Science Fund, 8 "973" chief scientists, 11 national "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" science and technology innovation leaders, 3 national "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" teaching masters, 7 national "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" young top talents, and "National Level There are 5 winners of the "Outstanding Teacher Award for Higher Education Institutions", 9 national outstanding teachers, 1 national model teacher, 130 people enjoying special government allowances (including 30 on-the-job), 1 national outstanding professional and technical talent, 2 winners of the "China Young Women Scientist Award", 9 national candidates for the "Million Talents Project", 8 winners of the "China Youth Science and Technology Award", 5 winners of the "Capital Science and Technology Leading Talents", 31 winners of the "Beijing Municipal Outstanding Teacher Award for Higher Education Institutions", 1 outstanding undergraduate teaching management personnel in Beijing universities, 1 outstanding undergraduate education team in Beijing universities, and 65 outstanding talents across the (new) century of the Ministry of Education.

The school's disciplinary strength has steadily increased. Focusing on the "four aspects", we strive to build a discipline system of "strengthening engineering, thickening science, promoting literature and emphasizing cross-disciplinary studies". Two disciplines, chemistry and materials science, are ranked in the top 1‰ of the ESI ranking, and three disciplines, engineering, biology and biochemistry, and environmental ecology, are ranked in the top 1% of the ESI ranking. The "Green Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials" discipline group has been selected as a national first-class discipline construction. The school currently has 8 first-level doctoral programs, 21 first-level master's programs, 2 second-level master's programs, 1 doctoral professional degree authorization category, and 10 master's professional degree authorization categories; 1 first-level national key discipline (covering 5 second-level key disciplines), 2 second-level national key disciplines, 1 national key (cultivation) discipline, 3 first-level Beijing key disciplines (covering 14 second-level key disciplines), 2 Beijing cross-disciplinary key disciplines, and 3 second-level Beijing key disciplines; 56 undergraduate majors (including second bachelor's degree majors), 8 national characteristic major construction sites, 18 national first-class major construction sites, 14 Beijing characteristic major construction sites, 1 Beijing colleges and universities "key construction first-class major", 8 Beijing first-class major construction sites, 13 Ministry of Education comprehensive reform pilot majors, 6 Ministry of Education "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" pilot majors, and 9 Ministry of Education Engineering Education Professional Certification Majors; 2 national key laboratories, 1 national engineering technology research center, 1 national engineering laboratory, 14 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 15 provincial and ministerial engineering technology research centers, and 1 provincial and ministerial base for social sciences. 8 postdoctoral mobile stations.

The school's teaching reform results continue to emerge. There are 2 national teaching bases, 1 national quality education base, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 national virtual simulation teaching experimental centers, 12 national off-campus practical teaching bases for college students, 1 national talent training model innovation experimental zone, 1 national college practice education innovation and entrepreneurship base, 5 Beijing-level off-campus talent training bases, 7 Beijing-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 Beijing-level demonstration campus innovation practice bases, 1 Beijing-level quality education base; 15 national-level quality courses, 15 national-level quality resource sharing courses, 2 national-level quality video open courses, 1 national-level virtual simulation "gold course", 4 national-level quality courses in 100 online open courses, 6 national offline first-class courses, 2 national online and offline hybrid first-class courses, 2 national ideological and political demonstration courses, 37 Beijing-level quality courses, 8 Beijing-level quality undergraduate courses, 1 Beijing-level virtual simulation "golden course", 5 Beijing-level ideological and political demonstration courses, 2 Beijing-level "most beautiful classrooms" for teaching and educating people, 5 bilingual demonstration courses of the Ministry of Education; 1 Ministry of Education general higher education quality textbook, 14 "12th Five-Year Plan" general higher education undergraduate national planning textbooks, 10 Beijing higher education quality textbooks, 12 Beijing higher education quality undergraduate textbook courseware; 2 first prizes of national teaching achievement awards, 9 second prizes of national teaching achievement awards, 37 first prizes of Beijing teaching achievements, 47 second prizes of Beijing teaching achievements; 5 national teaching teams, 11 excellent teaching teams in Beijing.

The school's scientific research work has developed rapidly. The ability to undertake major projects and solve major needs of national economic and social development has been further enhanced. Since 2001, the school has 32 scientific research projects that have won the three national science and technology awards, 3 National Natural Science Foundation of China innovation research groups, 6 Ministry of Education Yangtze River Scholars innovation teams, and 1 Ministry of Science and Technology Innovation Talent Promotion Plan key field innovation team. A large number of scientific research results have been published in top international academic journals such as Nature and Science, and various scientific research results have been applied to the country's cutting-edge science and technology fields. In 2021, the school's science and technology funds received 840 million yuan, of which competitive scientific research funds increased by 42 million yuan compared with 2020, and 783 domestic patents and 24 foreign patents were authorized.

The school's ability to transform scientific and technological achievements has been continuously strengthened. The school regards industry-university integration and military-civilian integration as important development strategic opportunities, continuously enhances the "four services" capabilities, leads the transformation and upgrading of enterprises, and better contributes to the national economic and social development and the construction of the "four centers" in the capital. The school's science and technology park has been recognized as a "National University Science and Technology Park", "Beijing Small and Medium Enterprise Entrepreneurship Base" and the fourth batch of "National Technology Transfer Demonstration Institutions". The science and technology industry has nearly 20 science and technology industry entities that are closely integrated with teaching and scientific research. Relying on the school's advantages in science and technology and talents, and taking the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements as its business purpose, it has formed a high-tech industry with Beijing characteristics, and has formed a series of technologies and a variety of products in the fields of biochemical engineering, daily chemicals, fine chemicals, and new chemical materials. In recent years, in combination with the school's advantageous disciplines, local economic development strategies, and the needs of improving the scientific and technological innovation capabilities of enterprises, the school has also focused on the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Bohai Rim, and has successively established 4 local research institutes for school-local cooperation and 6 technology transfer centers.

The school's international exchanges and cooperation are becoming increasingly extensive. Adhering to the "global development" strategy, we will strive to improve the system and mechanism of international exchanges and cooperation, continuously optimize the global cooperation network system, and focus on promoting the construction of the "Belt and Road". The school has established partnerships with 156 universities and institutions in 48 countries (regions), including the United States, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and Italy. In 2021, 36 new (renewed) inter-school cooperation agreements were signed, and 11 new partners were added. There are 3 Beijing International Cooperation Joint Laboratories (Research Centers) and 3 Beijing International Science and Technology Cooperation Bases, and 5 Higher Education Discipline Innovation and Talent Introduction Bases ("111 Plan"); Adhere to the focus on the introduction of "high-end, sophisticated and scarce" talents, and 20 talent introduction projects have been approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology's national "High-end Foreign Expert Introduction Plan"; there are 18 foreign experts who have served in the school for a long time; actively promote international exchanges of students, and carry out more than 80 student study abroad programs with more than 60 universities and institutions in 19 countries (regions). Continue to promote the "Beijing Chemical-World Top 100 Universities Undergraduate, Master and Doctoral Elite Program", and 30 outstanding students are funded by the National Scholarship Council to study for a doctorate or joint doctoral training abroad.

The school attaches great importance to student employment. The whole school has made every effort to promote employment work, established a complete employment guidance and service system, attached importance to the whole process of employment guidance for students, and actively played the leading role of the school in the process of supply and demand meeting and two-way selection between graduates and employers. 25 teachers were selected into the "National 10,000 Outstanding Innovation and Entrepreneurship Mentor Talent Pool" of the Ministry of Education. For many years, the one-time employment rate of graduates has been among the best in the country. In 2021, affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, the employment rate of undergraduate graduates was 93%, and the employment rate of graduate students was 97%.

Today, Beijing University of Chemical Technology adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implements the Party's education policy, adheres to the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, continues to uphold the school motto of "great virtue and erudition, cultivating nature and craftsmanship" and the spirit of "unity, dedication, hard work, pragmatism, erudition and innovation", and deeply implements the four major strategies of "educating people first", "strengthening the school with talents", "global development" and "cross-cutting breakthroughs", and creates a more outstanding "education Beijing", "innovation Beijing", "open Beijing" and "happy Beijing". Taking the construction of "Double First-Class" as an opportunity, we will accelerate the pace of building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics and contribute to the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.