Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology

Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology was founded in 1978. It is a general higher education institution with engineering as its main discipline, and with a multi-disciplinary penetration of engineering, science, management, economics, and liberal arts, and with distinctive engineering practice characteristics. The school developed from the Second Branch of Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology and Beijing Petrochemical College. It was renamed in 1992. In 2000, it was transferred from Sinopec Group to Beijing for management. It has successively cooperated with Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing University of Technology and other universities to train postgraduates throughout the whole process. In 2011, it became a master's degree postgraduate training unit relying on the "Service National Special Needs Talent Training Project". In 2018, it was approved as a Beijing doctoral degree awarding project construction unit. The school adheres to the school-running philosophy of "advocating practice, emphasizing both knowledge and practice", adheres to the school spirit of "unity, diligence, truth-seeking, and innovation", inherits the school-running characteristics of educating people through practice, and strives to create a cradle of engineers in the first-class district of the new era, and build a distinctive and high-level applied university.

The school has 11 teaching colleges (departments), with 6 first-level disciplines authorized to grant master's degrees, including materials science and engineering, control science and engineering, mechanical engineering, business administration, chemical engineering and technology, and environmental science and engineering, 7 master's professional degree authorization categories, including materials and chemical engineering, auditing, electronic information, machinery, resources and environment, energy and power, biology and pharmaceuticals, 38 undergraduate majors and 1 postdoctoral research workstation. There are 8,000 full-time students, including 780 master's students. There are 822 faculty and staff, including 549 full-time teachers, 63% of whom are doctoral teachers, and 32% of whom are "dual-qualified" teachers; in addition, 72 engineering and technical personnel from enterprises and research institutes are employed. There are 1 Yangtze River Scholar and National Outstanding Youth Fund winner, 1 National Natural Science Foundation Excellent Youth Science Fund winner, 2 National Overseas High-level Talents, 4 experts enjoying special government allowances, 3 New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education, 1 selected as one of the 100 leading talents of "Science and Technology Beijing", 3 overseas young high-level talents in Beijing, 8 Beijing Great Wall Scholars, 16 Beijing famous teachers and special teachers of ideological and political courses, 1 selected as "Beijing Talent Introduction Support Plan", 91 young top talents and middle-aged and young backbone teachers in Beijing, 5 Beijing excellent teaching teams, and 14 Beijing science and technology innovation teams.

The school insists on talent training as the core, constantly explores new models of talent training, deepens education and teaching reforms, improves the education system of comprehensive moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor training, and promotes full-staff, full-process and all-round education. The school is a pilot university for CDIO engineering education reform of the Ministry of Education, and joined the CDIO International Cooperation Organization in 2012; it is the first batch of pilot universities for the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, a demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform in Beijing, and a university with high-level athlete enrollment qualifications. Seven undergraduate majors have passed the national engineering education professional certification; there are 7 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 3 national characteristic major construction sites, 8 pilot majors of the Ministry of Education's "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program", 1 Ministry of Education's "Undergraduate Teaching Project" comprehensive reform pilot major, 3 Beijing key construction first-class undergraduate majors, 5 Beijing first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 5 Beijing characteristic major construction sites; in recent years, it has won 2 second prizes for national teaching achievements and 21 Beijing teaching achievement awards; it has 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, 2 national engineering practice education centers, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 1 national off-campus practice education base for college students, as well as 4 Beijing college experimental teaching demonstration centers, 8 Beijing off-campus talent training bases, 2 Beijing demonstration campus innovation practice bases, and 1 Beijing area college demonstration entrepreneurship center.

The school will carry out practical education throughout the entire process of talent training, adhere to the enterprise-oriented and front-line service, and always take the training of high-quality application-oriented talents as the training goal. It has successively built talent training bases with 181 enterprises and institutions such as Yanshan Petrochemical and Zhongguancun Software Park, and established a "cooperative win-win, long-term and stable" mechanism for education between government, industry, academia, research and application. The school is a national industry-university-research cooperative education experimental base and a Beijing-level college student quality education base construction unit. In recent years, students have participated in various national and Beijing discipline competitions and innovation and entrepreneurship competitions with high enthusiasm and wide participation, and have achieved excellent results in competitions such as "Internet+", "Challenge Cup", "Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction", electronic design, chemical design, and intelligent robots. The engineering practice ability of graduates has been widely praised by employers.

The school takes discipline construction as the leader, energy science and technology innovation and urban safe operation as the main line, and vigorously improves its scientific and technological innovation capabilities. There are currently 1 Beijing high-tech construction discipline, 4 Beijing key construction disciplines, 5 Beijing key laboratories, 1 Beijing Higher Education Engineering Research Center, 1 Beijing Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Base, 10 school-level key scientific research institutions, and the Capital Clean Energy (Oil and Gas) Supply and Use Safety Assurance Technology Collaborative Innovation Center, Zhongguancun Energy Engineering Intelligent Equipment Industry Technology Research Institute, and Beijing Safety Production Engineering Technology Research Institute. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the university has undertaken 75 new national-level projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Social Science Foundation, the National Science and Technology Support Plan, the National Science and Technology Major Project, and the National Key R&D Plan. It has also undertaken 88 new provincial and ministerial projects such as the Beijing Science and Technology Plan and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation. It has undertaken 795 new horizontal projects for enterprises, 26 new scientific research achievements awards at the provincial and ministerial level and industry associations, and 263 new national authorized invention patents.

The university has promoted open education in all aspects. Focusing on the construction and development of Beijing's high-tech industries and industries, it has pragmatically promoted cooperation with Daxing District, Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, Beijing Emergency Management Bureau, Biomedicine Base, and various parks, industries, and enterprises. It attaches importance to international exchanges and cooperation, and cooperates with more than 30 well-known foreign universities or research institutions. Every year, it organizes undergraduate "Top Ten Students" and "Top Ten Nominated Students" to exchange abroad; it has been approved for the "Beijing Higher Education Elite Scholarship" project, and every year a certain proportion of graduate students and undergraduates go to European and American universities for visiting studies. It has opened a "Sino-French Engineer Class" and implemented the "3+1+2" training model. The school is a national talent training base for the "Belt and Road" initiative in Beijing, and has received funding from multiple Beijing student scholarship programs.

The school has complete infrastructure and excellent school conditions. The three campuses of Qingyuan, Kangzhuang and Yanshan have a total area of ​​466 acres, a school building area of ​​264,000 square meters, a total value of 660 million yuan for teaching and scientific research equipment, 980,000 paper books, and 1.24 million electronic books.

Standing at the historical intersection of the "Two Centenary Goals", Beijing University of Chemical Technology adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly studies and implements the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Plenary Sessions of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, adheres to and strengthens the party's overall leadership over the school, comprehensively implements the party's education policy, adheres to the socialist direction of running schools, implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, unswervingly implements the new development concept, takes the development of the capital as the overall guide, adheres to the highest standards, and under the strong leadership of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, takes the road of intensive high-quality development, serves the construction of Beijing's "four centers" functions, and strives to build a cradle of engineers in the best district in the new era, and strives to build a distinctive and high-level applied university.