Tianjin Urban Construction University

Tianjin Chengjian University is a general college in Tianjin. It was founded in 1978. It was formerly the Fourth Branch of Tianjin University and provided undergraduate education based on Tianjin University. In 1979, it was renamed Tianjin University Architecture Branch. In 1987, it was renamed Tianjin Urban Construction College. In 2013, it was renamed Tianjin Chengjian University. In 1998, the school was approved as a master's degree awarding institution, achieving an improvement in the level of education. In 2007, it was approved as an engineering master training institution. In 1996, it passed the undergraduate teaching qualification evaluation of the Ministry of Education. In 2007, it passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education with "excellent" results. In 2018, it successfully passed the undergraduate teaching work review and evaluation of the Ministry of Education.

In the 43-year history of running schools, the school has been guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhered to and strengthened the party's overall leadership over school work, fully implemented the party's education policy, always adhered to the socialist direction of running schools, and took moral education as its fundamental task. It has taken "developing urban science and cultivating construction talents" as its purpose of running schools, adhering to the school-running philosophy of "relying on the industry, strengthening characteristics, quality-oriented, and pursuing excellence", and practicing the school motto of "valuing morality and ability, being good at learning and building". In the process of serving new urbanization and urban modernization, it has formed the school-running characteristics of "based on urban construction, close to the industry, combining morality and ability, and cultivating compound application talents who are suitable and dedicated". More than 74,000 outstanding graduates who are suitable and dedicated have been trained.

The education and teaching system is complete, and the quality of talent training has steadily improved. There are 15 colleges, 3 teaching departments (centers) and 1 continuing education college. The number of students on campus is more than 18,000. There are 57 undergraduate majors, including 9 national first-class professional construction sites, 7 Tianjin first-class professional construction sites, 3 new engineering majors, 1 national characteristic major, 1 national and 2 Tianjin comprehensive reform pilot majors, 7 Tianjin brand professional construction projects and 5 Tianjin strategic emerging industry related professional construction projects, 8 Tianjin advantage and characteristic majors and 12 Tianjin application-oriented majors, 6 majors have passed the undergraduate professional evaluation (certification) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and 32 majors have implemented the "large-category enrollment + professional diversion" reform. The school has 1 national first-class course, 24 Tianjin first-class construction courses, 1 first-batch ideological and political demonstration course of the Ministry of Education, 12 Tianjin quality courses, 7 Tianjin colleges and universities ideological and political demonstration courses, 2 Tianjin "Party History Special Course Ideological and Political Quality Courses", and 4 Tianjin English-taught brand courses for international students. It has been approved as the first batch of excellent ideological and political textbooks for colleges and universities in Tianjin, and 12 national and provincial and ministerial planning textbooks. It has 10 Tianjin Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers, 2 Tianjin Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center Construction Units, 1 Tianjin Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center, 9 Tianjin Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Construction Projects, 1 Tianjin First Batch of Virtual Teaching and Research Office Pilot Construction Projects, 1 Tianjin College Ideological and Political Theory Course Collaborative Innovation Center, and 1 Tianjin College Practice Education Demonstration Base. It has been approved for 3 "New Engineering" research and practice projects of the Ministry of Education, and 3 first batch of "New Liberal Arts" research and reform practice projects at the provincial and ministerial levels or above. It has won 18 Tianjin Teaching Achievement Awards, including 9 first prizes and 9 second prizes. The innovation and entrepreneurship work has achieved remarkable results. In 2021, it won more than 200 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, and won the "Champion Cup" Tianjin Division "Champion Cup"; 47 innovation and entrepreneurship training program projects were approved, including 16 national-level projects; 6 students won the Tianjin College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scholarship. In recent years, the employment rate of students has ranked among the top undergraduate colleges in the city. In 2021, it was rated as an excellent unit for the employment quality assessment and evaluation of the 2021 college graduates in Tianjin.

The disciplines have distinct characteristics, and the comprehensive strength of scientific research is constantly improving. The school has 7 major subject groups, including urban planning, urban construction, urban management, ecological city, smart city, urban economy, and urban culture, 14 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, and 11 professional master's degree authorization categories. There is 1 Tianjin first-class discipline (civil engineering), 1 Tianjin first-class (cultivation) discipline (environmental science and engineering), 4 Tianjin characteristic discipline groups, 4 Tianjin service industry characteristic discipline groups, and 6 Tianjin key disciplines. In the past five years, more than 70 national scientific research projects and more than 350 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects have been approved; 55 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards have been obtained; 87 academic works have been published; and more than 210 invention patents have been authorized. There are 25 provincial and ministerial science and technology platforms, including 1 national engineering center, 4 Tianjin key laboratories, 7 engineering centers of the Ministry of Education and Tianjin, 1 international joint research center, 1 humanities and social sciences base, 1 university think tank, 1 Tianjin Science and Technology Innovation Think Tank, 1 Tianjin Achievement Transformation Center, 2 collaborative innovation centers, 1 industrial technology innovation strategic alliance, 1 Tianjin Science Popularization Base, and 1 "Belt and Road" joint laboratory. In 2018, it was approved for the first time as a Tianjin "Belt and Road" science and technology innovation cooperation project, in 2019 it was approved for the first time as a "National Defense Science and Technology Innovation Special Zone Project" of the Science and Technology Commission of the Central Military Commission, and in 2020 it won the Tianjin Patent Award for the first time. The school's science and technology funding has continued to grow, with an average annual science and technology funding of over 100 million yuan in the past three years.

The construction of the faculty team has continued to strengthen, and high-level talents have increased significantly. The school currently has more than 1,400 faculty and staff, including more than 1,000 full-time teachers and more than 400 teachers with associate senior titles or above. The number of high-level talents continues to increase. 20 teachers have been awarded national talent titles, including 2 candidates for national engineering projects, 18 national young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, and experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council; 43 people have participated in various provincial and ministerial talent projects, including 1 candidate for provincial and ministerial talent engineering projects, 3 candidates for the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Support Program, 1 Tianjin Young Top Talent, 1 Tianjin Distinguished Professor, 3 young scholars, 8 first-level candidates for Tianjin's "131 Talent Project", 4 Tianjin Propaganda and Culture "Five Batches" talents, 3 young and middle-aged science and technology innovation leaders in Tianjin's Talent Promotion Plan, 3 outstanding young science and technology talents, 2 Tianjin Outstanding Youth Fund winners, and 14 Tianjin Teaching Masters. It has 15 Tianjin teaching teams, 6 Tianjin higher education innovation teams, 2 Tianjin talent promotion plan key field innovation teams, 1 Tianjin "project + team" innovation class B team, 1 Tianjin "131" innovative talent team, and 1 Tianjin college ideological and political teaching reform and innovation demonstration team.

International exchanges and cooperation are constantly expanding, and the process of education internationalization is significantly accelerated. It has signed cooperation framework agreements with 45 colleges and institutions in 20 countries, and carried out 30 international cooperation projects with 17 foreign universities (including 20 Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, 3 short-term student exchange projects, 2 teacher training projects, 1 overseas education project, 3 joint research center projects and 1 overseas practice base project). Among them, the undergraduate education program in engineering management jointly organized with VIA University in Denmark has enrolled eight classes; through the quality certification of higher education institutions studying in China, it can recruit undergraduate and master's level students to come to China, with a total of more than 1,100 long-term and short-term students, and 36 source countries. The university has been approved for two national-level foreign expert projects, 90 Tianjin foreign expert introduction projects, and Tianjin Municipal Education Commission special projects, and has been rated as a "Tianjin Foreign Expert Introduction Demonstration Unit". It has supported more than 500 teachers and students to go abroad for exchange and study, and a total of more than 120 students have obtained Chinese and foreign dual degrees, and 16 teachers and students have received EU scholarships. In 2019, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to establish the Sino-foreign cooperative institution "Tianjin Chengjian University International Engineering College", which offers undergraduate and master's education in 4 majors, with 447 undergraduate students and 52 master's students. It has jointly established the "Punjab Tianjin Technical University" in Pakistan with brother colleges. It has jointly established the "Joint Research Center for Infrastructure Protection and Environmental Biotechnology" with the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and has been approved as the third batch of international science and technology cooperation bases in Tianjin. It has cooperated with Swinburne University of Technology, Australia to establish the "China-Australia Joint Research Center for High-Performance Civil Engineering Materials and Intelligent Construction Technology", and has been approved as the 2020 Tianjin "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory (Research Center). More than 1,000 experts and scholars from well-known foreign universities were invited to the school for academic exchange activities, 13 international conferences were hosted and undertaken, and 18 international competition awards were won.

The school has excellent conditions and a beautiful and harmonious campus environment. The school covers an area of ​​595,400 square meters and a building area of ​​453,200 square meters. The library and reference room have a total of more than 1.38 million paper books, 2.83 million electronic books, 35,000 electronic journals, 12 million electronic degree theses, and 290,000 hours of audio and video. The campus network has 4 exits and 8.3Gbps bandwidth. 5,001 wireless information points are laid, and the campus wireless network covers key areas of teaching and office and student dormitories. The logistics service guarantee system is perfect, and the campus greening rate is 41%; the campus cultural activities are wonderful, the campus environment is civilized, orderly, harmonious and stable, and the school was awarded the "Tianjin Civilized Campus in 2018-2020".

In the future, Tianjin University of Urban Construction will focus on the fundamental issue of "what kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate them, and for whom to cultivate them", hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the previous plenary sessions of the 19th Central Committee, fully implement the Party's education policy, fully implement the spirit of the National Education Conference, bear in mind the original mission, consolidate and expand the results of party history learning and education, take moral education as the foundation, high-quality development as the theme, and first-class discipline construction as the guide. Adhere to the "study first", deepen reforms, expand opening up, comprehensively improve the quality of talent training, significantly improve the level of scientific and technological innovation, and solidly promote the construction of doctoral degree-granting institutions. Vigorously promote the in-depth development of comprehensive and strict party governance, write a new chapter in the high-quality and connotation-oriented development of the school's cause, and lay a solid foundation for building a high-level urban construction characteristic university. Welcome the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with outstanding results, and strive unswervingly to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.