Southwest Petroleum University

Southwest Petroleum University is the second petroleum undergraduate college established in New China. It is a university jointly built by the central and local governments and mainly managed by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government. In 2013, the school was selected into the "National Central and Western College Basic Capacity Construction Project" and became one of the 100 universities selected for the project. In September 2017, it was selected as one of the first batch of "Double First-Class" world-class discipline construction universities in the country.

In the mid-to-late 1950s, my country's petroleum industry was quite backward and far from meeting the needs of national construction, which attracted great attention from the Party and the country. Chairman Mao Zedong personally visited the Longchang Gas Mine in Sichuan, and Deng Xiaoping, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and General Secretary of the Central Secretariat, personally presided over the exploration and development of Sichuan oil and gas fields. In March 1958, three exploration wells in Dongguan, Nanchong, Wusheng, Guang'an, and Daying, Suining, gushed out high-yield oil flows, shocking the whole country. General Yu Qiuli, Minister of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry, was stationed in Nanchong and launched the Sichuan Central Petroleum Campaign. In order to accelerate the development of Sichuan's oil and gas resources and train technical cadres for the development of the oil and gas industry in the Southwest Cooperation Zone, the state decided to establish the second petroleum university, which was located in Nanchong, a major town in northern Sichuan, where the Sichuan Central Petroleum Campaign Command was located.

In August 1958, the Ministry of Petroleum Industry first recruited 643 first-term students in Chengdu, and then appointed Comrade Ma Zai, Director of the Infrastructure Department, to lead a group of young experts and cadres and workers to Nanchong to plan the establishment of the college. On September 20, the Ministry of Petroleum Industry, together with the Ministry of Education, reported to the State Council for approval and formally approved the establishment of Sichuan Petroleum College. From then on, the school began to break the routine of running schools with students first and then building schools, along with the construction and development of my country's oil and gas industry.

In July 1970, the school was renamed Southwest Petroleum College with the approval of the State Council. In March 2000, the university was transferred to Sichuan Province and jointly built by the central and local governments, with the Sichuan Provincial People's Government as the main management body. In 2003, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the university was upgraded to a university, and in December 2005 it was officially renamed Southwest Petroleum University. On November 1, 2018, the Sichuan Provincial People's Government, China National Petroleum Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation jointly signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to jointly build a world-class discipline construction university (Southwest Petroleum University).

The university began to recruit master's students in 1978, obtained the right to confer doctoral degrees in 1986, and in 1988, oil and gas field development engineering (joint petroleum machinery engineering) became the first batch of national key disciplines. In 1989, the National Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Development Engineering was approved for construction, and a postdoctoral research mobile station was established in 1991.

After more than 60 years of construction, the university has now developed into a university with engineering as the main focus, coordinated development of multiple disciplines, outstanding advantages in oil and gas, and distinctive characteristics. The main disciplines of petroleum are at the leading level in the country. The university currently has 19 teaching colleges (departments) and 1 engineering training center. Disciplines and majors cover 8 disciplines, including science, engineering, management, economics, literature, law, education, and art. There are 78 undergraduate majors with enrollment qualifications (including 72 undergraduate majors in 2021), 15 national first-class undergraduate majors, 8 national specialty majors, 7 engineering certification majors, 28 provincial first-class undergraduate majors, 16 Sichuan specialty majors, 1 national college student cultural quality education base and 11 Sichuan undergraduate talent training bases. Southwest Petroleum University is a national high-level university construction project university for government-sponsored graduate students. There are 5 first-level doctoral degree-granting disciplines, 29 second-level doctoral degree-granting disciplines, 22 first-level master's degree-granting disciplines, 89 second-level master's degree-granting disciplines, 1 master's interdisciplinary discipline, 14 master's professional degree categories (including electronic information, machinery, materials and chemical engineering, resources and environment, energy and power, civil engineering and water conservancy, Master of Business Administration, Master of Translation, Engineering Management, Master of Laws, Master of Social Work, Applied Statistics, Sports, Master of Arts) and 8 master's degree-granting disciplines for college teachers. There are 5 postdoctoral research stations, 1 national "double first-class" construction discipline, 2 Sichuan "double first-class" disciplines, 1 first-level national key discipline, 3 second-level national key disciplines, and 15 provincial and ministerial key disciplines. At present, the school has a total of 1,048 graduate supervisors, including 178 doctoral supervisors and 870 master's supervisors. There are 2 national teaching teams, 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, and 7 provincial teaching teams. There are 100 scientific and technological innovation teams at or above the school level, including: 2 innovation teams (including cultivation) supported by the "Yangtze River Scholars and Innovation Team Development Program" of the Ministry of Education, 16 innovation teams funded by the "Youth Science and Technology Innovation Research Team Funding Program" of Sichuan Province, 1 Sichuan Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Team, 1 Chongqing Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Team, 18 innovation teams funded by the "Provincial University Scientific Research Innovation Team Construction Program" of Sichuan Province, and 62 youth science and technology innovation teams (including cultivation) of Southwest Petroleum University. The first-level discipline of petroleum and natural gas engineering was rated A+ in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, ranking first in the country. The postdoctoral research station of petroleum and natural gas engineering was once again rated as a "national excellent postdoctoral research station" in 2020. There are 39,788 students on campus (including part-time master's students and part-time doctoral students), including 31,021 ordinary undergraduates, 7,219 master's students, 1,055 doctoral students, and 493 foreign students with academic qualifications. In addition, there are 1,287 postgraduate students pursuing a master's degree in the workplace. (Student data comes from the 2021 Higher Education Statistical Survey)

The school currently has 2,776 faculty members, 405 of whom hold senior professional and technical positions and 810 hold associate senior professional and technical positions. There are 2,080 full-time teachers, including 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 academician of the Ministry of Education's Science and Technology Committee, 3 members of the Ministry of Education's Teaching Steering Committee, 2 recipients of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 6 selected for the "Changjiang Scholars Program", 6 selected for the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", and 2 recipients of the National Natural Science Foundation's Outstanding Youth Fund. There are 13 national candidates for the "New Century Hundred Thousand Talents Project", 1 national cultural celebrity and "Four Batches" talent project candidate, 60 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 2 candidates for Sichuan Province's "Top of the Tower" talent training project, 4 winners of the Sun Yueqi Energy Award, 2 Tianfu Ten Thousand Outstanding Scientists, 1 Tianfu Master of the "Tianfu Qingcheng Plan", 57 Sichuan Province academic and technical leaders, 73 outstanding experts with outstanding contributions at the national and provincial and ministerial levels, 6 Tianfu Ten Thousand Science and Technology Innovation Leaders, 7 Tianfu Ten Thousand Science and Technology Elites, 2 Tianfu Ten Thousand Social Science Elites, 193 Sichuan Province Academic and Technical Leader Reserves, 7 selected for the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talent Support Program, and 165 doctoral supervisors ( Including tutors appointed outside the school), 6 national outstanding teachers, 1 national outstanding educator, 1 national model teacher, 1 national outstanding science and technology worker, 1 national advanced individual in teacher ethics, 1 national "May 1st" Labor Medal winner, 1 national model of professional ethics in the education system, 1 national outstanding chemical science and technology worker, 1 Sichuan Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award, 1 Provincial Outstanding Innovative Talent Award, 1 Sichuan Outstanding Talent Award, 9 provincial teaching masters, 9 provincial outstanding teachers, 1 provincial model of teacher ethics, 4 provincial "May 1st" Labor Medal winners, 1 provincial "Top Ten" young teacher, 11 winners of the Ho Ying-Tong Young Teacher Award and Young Teacher Fund, and 20 winners of the Sun Yueqi Science and Technology Education Fund Award.

The school currently has 268 scientific research bases (platforms) of various levels and types. Among them: 2 national key laboratories (National Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Development Engineering, Collaborative National Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate), 2 national "111 Plan" local university discipline innovation and talent introduction bases, 7 national engineering laboratories and R&D centers (collaborative), 1 national innovative talent training demonstration base, 1 national university science and technology park, 1 national technology transfer demonstration institution, 4 national industrial technology innovation strategic alliances; 6 international science and technology cooperation bases (platforms, centers, laboratories); 1 provincial and ministerial collaborative innovation center, 3 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education (engineering research centers), 1 Ministry of Education industry-education integration innovation platform, 1 China National Petroleum Corporation-Southwest Petroleum University Innovation Consortium, and the Ministry of Land and Resources Key Laboratory of 1 point laboratory (center), 1 key laboratory of the Petrochemical Industry Association; 24 key laboratories (research institutes, bases, centers, industry-university-research innovation alliances) of Sichuan Province; 4 collaborative innovation centers of the Sichuan Province "2011 Plan"; 1 Sichuan Science and Technology Resource Sharing Service Platform; 1 Chongqing Engineering Research Center; 1 Chongqing Key Laboratory; 14 CNPC (key) research rooms; 1 Sinopec (key) laboratory; 3 CNOOC (key) laboratories and research institutes; 2 industry and local industry alliances; 15 department-level (key) laboratories (research rooms); 11 school-level research institutes, 19 school-level and college-level research centers (institutes); 80 horizontal cooperation research bases; 60 horizontal cooperation strategic (framework) agreements.

Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, the university has undertaken 3,886 natural science vertical projects, including the National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund, the Excellent Young Scientist Fund, the Natural Science Foundation, the National "973" Program, the "863" Program, the Science and Technology Tackling (Support) Program, the Major Science and Technology Project, the Key R&D Program, the Ministry of Education's Key Projects, the New Century Excellent Talent Program, the Doctoral Program Fund, the Huo Yingdong Fund, and the Sichuan Province Outstanding Young Academic and Technical Leader Fund; 1,735 humanities and social science vertical projects, including the National Social Science Fund, the Ministry of Education, the Sichuan Provincial Planning, Science and Technology Department Soft Science, etc., and signed 7,918 horizontal cooperation projects with enterprises and institutions; and won 477 provincial and ministerial awards, including the National Science and Technology Progress Special Award, the National Science and Technology Progress First Prize, the National Technological Invention Second Prize, and the National Science and Technology Progress Second Prize ; 30,396 papers published, 510 books published; 6,891 patents authorized, including 3,019 invention patents and 3,872 utility model (including design) patents. In 2021, the school added 687 million yuan in project contract funds and 738 million yuan in actual scientific research funds.

The school has a national university science and technology park. The science and technology park is a national college student science and technology entrepreneurship internship base, a Sichuan postdoctoral innovation practice base, a Chengdu university student entrepreneurship demonstration base, and a Chengdu small and medium-sized enterprise incubation base. Relying on the school's scientific and technological resource advantages and the resource advantages of the western region, the science and technology park will gradually build a western region's first one that focuses on oil exploration and development technology research and development, oil equipment and petrochemical core technology product incubation, and integrates new energy, new materials, electronic information technology and office services. The university science and technology park with oil and gas as its feature.

In the evaluation of teaching achievements, the school has won 112 teaching achievement awards at the provincial and ministerial levels and above, including 9 national teaching achievement awards (including 3 first prizes, 5 second prizes, and 1 excellent award). There is 1 national-level quality course and 36 provincial-level quality courses. Since 2010, the school teachers have edited and published 200 textbooks of various types, including 1 national-level quality textbook, 21 textbooks listed as national-level "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" and "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" planning textbooks, and 24 textbooks listed as provincial-level "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" planning textbooks.

The school has two major campuses in Chengdu and Nanchong, with a total campus area of ​​more than 3,000 acres; 35,600 teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment (sets, pieces), with a total value of 705 million yuan; 2.163 million paper books and electronic books in the library 4.766 million copies. Together with Chengdu, we have created the "Energy Science and Technology Economic Circle around Southwest Petroleum University". We have built two special bases for field geological practice in Emei, Sichuan and Beibei, Chongqing. We have built a high-tech industrial base and student practice base covering nearly 100 acres in Nanchong, Sichuan. We have built a science and technology exchange center in Chengdu and a Tianfu New Energy Research Institute in Tianfu New District.

The school attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation, and has established close exchanges and cooperation with colleges and universities and related academic research institutions in more than 10 countries and regions such as the United States, Russia, Britain, Germany, Japan, France, and Canada.

The school has a glorious tradition of attaching great importance to party building and ideological and political work. It has been rated as an advanced grassroots party organization and advanced collective of party building and ideological and political work in Sichuan Province, and an advanced unit for the "four good" activities of the leadership team of Sichuan universities.

Since its establishment, the school has insisted on continuously improving the quality of education as the core, deepening the reform of the internal management system as the driving force, and distinctive party building and ideological and political work as the fundamental guarantee, and all work is thriving. The school has been awarded the titles of "Top 50 National College Graduate Employment", "National Excellent Academic Affairs Office of General Colleges and Universities", "National Advanced Collective for Degree and Postgraduate Education Management", "National Advanced Collective for Science and Technology Management of General Colleges and Universities", "National Excellent Postdoctoral Research Station", "National Advanced Collective for Graduate Employment of General Colleges and Universities", "National Model Workers' Home", "National Advanced Unit for Student Military Training", "National Excellent College for Implementing the "School Sports Work Regulations", "National Advanced Unit for Introducing Foreign Intelligence", "National Advanced Collective for Comprehensive Security Management in Schools and Surrounding Areas", "National Advanced Unit for Summer Social Practice Activities of College and Technical School Student Volunteers", "National Demonstration University for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform", "National College Practice Education Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base", and "Top 50 National Universities with Typical Experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship". In 2019, the School of Marxism of the school was selected as the second batch of key Marxist colleges in Sichuan Province. In 2010, "Journal of Southwest Petroleum University (Natural Science Edition)" won the "Ministry of Education China University Excellent Science and Technology Journal Award" (the third session). In 2001, the school accepted the random level evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education, and the conclusion was excellent. In 2008, the school accepted the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education and was rated as "excellent" again. In 2018, the school successfully completed the review and evaluation of the undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education, and was unanimously affirmed by the expert group and the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education.

The school's graduates have good ideological quality and strong team spirit. They are rooted in the grassroots, work hard, have a solid foundation, are innovative, learn quickly, have strong stamina, and have outstanding performance, and are widely praised by employers. Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 210,000 graduates for the country, among whom a large number of outstanding scientific and technological experts, professors, and scholars have emerged, as well as a large number of party and government leaders at all levels, outstanding entrepreneurs, and technical and management backbones on all fronts.

Today, Southwest Petroleum University will continue to uphold the fine tradition of "seeking truth from facts and hard work", carry forward the spirit of "cheer for the motherland and strive for the nation", practice the school motto of "enlightenment, perseverance, erudition and innovation", implement the secondary entrepreneurial development strategy of "quality-based school, talent-based school, academic-based school, highlighting characteristics, and scientific development", comprehensively deepen reforms, and lay a solid foundation for building a first-class energy university and a century-old prestigious school with engineering as the main discipline, world-class petroleum and natural gas and its supporting disciplines, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines.

And keep working hard!

Updated: March 29, 2022