China University of Geosciences (Beijing)

China University of Geosciences (Beijing) is located on Xueyuan Road in Haidian District, Beijing, where many famous universities gather. It is a famous university renowned both at home and abroad. The school is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and co-built with the Ministry of Natural Resources. In 2017, it entered the ranks of national "double first-class" universities.

China University of Geosciences (Beijing) was developed in 1952 from the Beijing Institute of Geology, which was established by merging the geological departments (disciplines) of Peking University, Tsinghua University, Tianjin University and Tangshan Railway Institute. It is a university with distinctive characteristics and profound cultural heritage. The school was relocated in 1970 and resumed operation at its original site in Beijing in 1978 under the direct care of Comrade Deng Xiaoping. China University of Geosciences was established in 1987. It is one of the first 33 universities in my country to pilot graduate schools and the first to enter the ranks of the national "211 Project" and the national "985" advantage discipline innovation platform construction. In February 2000, China University of Geosciences was transferred from the Ministry of Land and Resources to the Ministry of Education for management. In March 2005, the university headquarters was abolished and Beijing and Wuhan were independently run.

The school has always carried forward the fine tradition of serving the country through geology, shouldered the glorious mission of pioneering socialist construction, trained a large number of geological professionals urgently needed for economic construction, and made indelible contributions to the take-off of New China's industry and the development of geological undertakings. It has tempered a distinctive character of being stronger and stronger, strong and courageous, and formed the value pursuit of "loving the motherland, being able to endure hardships, being a pioneer, and daring to explore".

China University of Geosciences (Beijing) currently has 16 colleges, 41 undergraduate majors, 16 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 34 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, and 14 professional degree authorization categories. There are 16,898 full-time students, including 8,443 undergraduates, 6,464 postgraduates, 1,779 doctoral students, and 212 international students. The school covers an area of ​​525,843 square meters, and has internship bases in Zhoukoudian, Beidaihe, and Pingquan, Hebei.

China University of Geosciences (Beijing) is a research university with geology, resources, and environment as its main features, covering multiple disciplines such as science, engineering, liberal arts, management, economics, and law. Two disciplines, geology and geological resources and geological engineering, were selected as national "double first-class" construction disciplines, and two disciplines received A+ in the fourth round of discipline evaluation. Six disciplines, including earth science, engineering, environment/ecology, materials science, chemistry, and computer science, entered the top 1% of ESI in the world, among which earth science entered the top 1‰ of ESI in the world.

China University of Geosciences (Beijing) has a high-level faculty team, with 1,461 faculty members and 976 full-time teachers, including 276 professors, 357 associate professors, and 365 doctoral supervisors. The school has 10 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 8 national-level 100,000 Talents Project, 13 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 4 "Changjiang Scholars" Distinguished Professors, 1 winner of the National Teaching Master Award, 2 National Outstanding Teachers, 1 National "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" Teaching Master, 1 Huang Danian-style Teaching Team in National Universities, 1 National Outstanding Teaching Team, 12 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 3 "Changjiang Scholars" Young Scholars, 25 Beijing Teaching Masters, 3 Beijing Young Masters, and 15 postdoctoral research mobile stations.

China University of Geosciences (Beijing) has an outstanding reputation for talent training. The school has always taken moral education as its fundamental task, and has trained more than 200,000 outstanding talents for the country. A large number of elites represented by Comrade Wen Jiabao have emerged, 40 graduates have been elected as academicians of the two academies, and more than 200 people have become model workers at the provincial and ministerial levels or above. The school insists on cultivating high-quality innovative talents with "excellent moral character, solid foundation, extensive knowledge, and profound professional skills" as the training goal, adheres to the central position of talent training and the basic position of undergraduate education, and forms an education system that integrates "general education, professional education, and innovation and entrepreneurship education". The school has 10 majors selected as first-class undergraduate major construction points, 6 national first-class courses, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, and 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center. Students have excellent results in various subject competitions, volunteer services, social practices, innovation and entrepreneurship, and literary and sports competitions.

China University of Geosciences (Beijing) is an important base for national geoscience research. The school strengthens scientific layout and organizational planning, and has made remarkable achievements in scientific research projects, high-level academic achievements, scientific research awards, scientific research talent training, scientific research platform construction, intellectual property rights, and achievement transformation. Important results have been achieved in the geological evolution of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, unconventional isotope geochemistry, geological processes and mineralization, ultra-deep drilling and polar research, and many papers have been published in top international journals such as Nature, Science, and Nature Geoscience. In the past five years, the school has won 24 national and provincial science and technology awards as the first completing unit. The school has the State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, the National Rock and Mineral Fossil Specimen Resource Sharing Platform, and 19 key laboratories, engineering centers and provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Natural Resources. The school will promote the "five major" constructions of major disciplines, major scientific plans, major scientific facilities, major scientific projects, and major resource platforms, and promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional geosciences to earth system science.

China University of Geosciences (Beijing) has active international exchanges and cooperation. The school has signed cooperation agreements with a number of world-class universities and high-level research institutions, including the University of California, Los Angeles, Colorado School of Mines, University of Waterloo, University of Edinburgh, University of Birmingham, University of Hannover, Potsdam Geoscience Center, University of Sydney, Macquarie University, and has exchanges and cooperation with more than 200 colleges and scientific research institutions in more than 60 countries and regions. It has been approved for four higher education discipline innovation and intelligence introduction bases ("111 Plan"), and has implemented a number of national intelligence introduction projects. One foreign expert won the "Friendship Award" of the Chinese government. Relying on the "China-Africa University 20+20 Cooperation Plan", the school has established a Confucius Institute at the University of Namibia.

Entering a new era and striding forward on a new journey. China University of Geosciences (Beijing) adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, upholds the school motto of "hard work, simplicity, truth-seeking and pragmatism", implements the "three-stage" strategic concept facing the centenary of the founding of the university, insists on moral education, implements "landing actions", unswervingly follows the path of intensive development, concentrates on construction, seeks development wholeheartedly, and constantly creates a new situation in the construction of a world-class university in the field of earth sciences, and makes new and greater contributions to the realization of the "two centenary goals" and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!