China University of Petroleum (Beijing)

China University of Petroleum (Beijing) has two locations (Beijing and Karamay). The Beijing Changping Campus is located at the southern foot of the scenic Jundu Mountain. The Beijing Campus covers an area of ​​more than 700 acres; the Karamay Campus is located in Karamay City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and the campus covers an area of ​​more than 7,000 acres. The school is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education with distinctive petroleum characteristics, engineering-oriented, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. In 1997, the school was among the first batch of universities to enter the ranks of the national "211 Project" construction universities; in 2006, it became a national "Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" project construction university. In 2017, the school entered the ranks of national first-class discipline construction universities, and fully embarked on a new journey to build a world-class university with Chinese characteristics.

After 68 years of construction and development, the school has formed a discipline and professional layout with distinct petroleum characteristics, mainly engineering, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. Key disciplines such as petroleum and petrochemicals are in a leading position in China and have formed a certain influence internationally. According to the latest ESI data, the school has 6 disciplines in the top 1% of the ESI ranking, namely chemistry, engineering, materials science, earth science, computer science and environment/ecology. Among them, engineering has entered the top 1‰ of ESI globally, and environment/ecology has entered the top 1% of ESI globally for the first time in January 2021. Focusing on the petroleum and petrochemical industry structure, a discipline and professional layout with distinct petroleum characteristics has been constructed, consisting of the main disciplines of petroleum and petrochemicals, supporting disciplines, basic disciplines and emerging interdisciplinary disciplines. The "climbing plan", "enhancement plan" and "cultivation plan" have been implemented to build petroleum and petrochemical advantageous disciplines such as petroleum and natural gas engineering, geological resources and geological engineering, basic supporting disciplines such as chemistry, materials science and engineering, and emerging interdisciplinary disciplines such as new energy, new materials and artificial intelligence.

The school has always regarded talent cultivation as its fundamental task, adhered to the concept of "quality of talent cultivation is the lifeline of the school", and has trained more than 200,000 outstanding professionals for the country, laying a talent foundation for the development of the country's petroleum and petrochemical industry. It is known as the "cradle of petroleum talents". The school currently has 13,437 full-time undergraduates (including 4,696 full-time undergraduates in Karamay Campus), 6,889 postgraduates, 1,886 doctoral students, 637 international students, and a total of more than 20,000 students. Graduates are generally welcomed by the society and employers, and the employment rate of graduates continues to remain high.

The school insists on taking talents as the first resource, deeply implementing the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, and establishing a high-level teaching staff. There are 1,759 faculty and staff (including 286 faculty and staff in Karamay Campus), 296 professors, and 440 associate professors. There are 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. There are currently 2 National Natural Science Foundation Innovation Research Groups, 6 "Higher Education Discipline Innovation and Talent Introduction Program" of the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts, 4 Innovation Teams of the Ministry of Education's "Changjiang Scholars and Innovation Team Development Program", 3 national teaching teams, and 6 Beijing Excellent Teaching Teams. In 2018, 2 achievements won the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award for Higher Education. The school insists on combining introduction with training, and supports the rapid growth of outstanding young teachers through two rapid growth channels: the selection of young top talents and the young teacher growth project. A group of outstanding young teachers have emerged.

The school insists on taking scientific research as the way to strengthen the school, and in accordance with the idea of ​​"building a big platform, undertaking big projects, gathering a big team, achieving big results, and making big contributions", it continuously improves its scientific and technological innovation capabilities and comprehensive scientific research level. There are currently 2 national key laboratories, 11 national scientific research and innovation platform branches, 26 provincial and ministerial scientific research and innovation platforms of various types, and 18 key laboratory branches of China National Petroleum Corporation. The school has outstanding advantages in the field of petroleum and petrochemical research, and is at the leading level in China in many research fields. It has developed rapidly in emerging research fields such as unconventional oil and gas and new energy. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the school undertook 832 national scientific research projects, won 18 national three major science and technology awards, of which 6 were the first completion unit; won 397 provincial, ministerial and social science and technology awards, of which 240 were the first completion unit. The number of national awards ranked 7th among the general projects of national universities in 2017.

The school adheres to the path of combining "government, industry, academia and research". In October 2013, the Ministry of Education and the five major oil companies signed an agreement to jointly build a petroleum university. The school has signed comprehensive cooperation agreements with more than 140 provincial, municipal and district governments, enterprises and institutions, especially exploring and establishing new mechanisms and models for the joint training of talents by industry, academia and research. At present, nearly 76 petroleum and petrochemical enterprises have set up enterprise scholarships at the school; 13 petroleum and petrochemical enterprises have established talent training halls at the school; 40 enterprises have jointly recruited postdoctoral fellows with postdoctoral research workstations; 202 petroleum and petrochemical enterprises have established graduate workstations or joint training bases; 103 enterprises have established student internship bases; and 69 petroleum and petrochemical enterprises have established social practice bases. Actively explore the mechanism of collaborative education between government, industry, academia and research. The school jointly established Karamay Engineer College with Karamay City, and jointly established Beijing Engineer College with the three major oil companies in Beijing Research Institute. It focuses on implementing the undergraduate excellence plan and professional degree graduate training, and has taken new steps in the field of higher engineering education.

The school attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation. Through the implementation of the internationalization strategy, the scope and range of international exchanges and cooperation have been continuously broadened, and the international influence has been continuously expanded. The school has established multi-level, multi-field and multi-channel exchange and cooperation relations with 196 universities and many companies in developed countries such as the United States, France, Britain, Canada, and Japan. It has jointly built 10 international joint research institutions with foreign universities or companies, and jointly established a Confucius Institute with the University of San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador. In 2018, the school initiated the establishment of the World Energy University Alliance, a world energy university cooperation organization, whose members include 31 universities from 17 countries. The school actively participates in the construction of the "Belt and Road" and has established cooperative relations with more than 60 foreign universities, enterprises and institutions along the "Belt and Road". In 2017, the school was selected for the "Belt and Road" scholarship project for foreign students in Beijing; it was approved for the "Silk Road" Chinese government scholarship project; and it was selected for the first batch of Beijing's "Belt and Road" national talent training base projects. In 2019, it was the first batch of Chinese government scholarship universities nationwide to be approved for the "China-Africa Friendship" scholarship project and the "China-Africa Friendship" Chinese government scholarship training project for advanced students.

The school insists on strengthening and improving party building and ideological and political work as a strong guarantee for the school's sustained, rapid and healthy development, and adheres to the correct political direction throughout all aspects of the school's work and the entire process of talent training. Adhering to the petroleum cultural tradition, a campus cultural atmosphere with distinctive petroleum characteristics has been formed. 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", and the spirit of Zhongshi University of Petroleum of "seeking truth from facts, hard work, patriotic dedication, pioneering and innovation" are the essence of Zhongshi University of Petroleum culture.

Accumulating knowledge and making breakthroughs, opening up things and accomplishing tasks. Based on the new era, the school will fully implement the party's education policy, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and educating people, adhere to "strengthening excellence, pioneering innovation, and creating first-class", "focusing on teaching and strengthening scientific research", implement the four major strategies of "characteristic development, innovation-driven, open integration, and talent-driven school", and take "green empowerment, intelligent empowerment, and governance empowerment" as the three major driving forces to stride towards the grand goal of a world-class research university with distinctive characteristics in the energy field.