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CHONGQING, China, Dec. 10, 2021 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

Located near the Daba Mountains and the Yangtze River, Chongqing Jiaotong

University (CQJTU), with virtues cultivating generations of talents and

expertise empowering transportation projects, marks its 70th anniversary on

December 12 with a celebration event as well as a summit on the transportation

development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle.

CQJTU is a distinctive, multi-disciplinary university with a primary focus in

transportation engineering. In 1951, in order to train talents for the building

of a road from Chengdu to Lhasa, the school, then named Southwest

Transportation Technological Academy, was established. In 1960, the School was

renamed Chongqing Institute of Communications by merging with the Civil

Engineering Department of Chengdu Technological College, the Metallurgical

Department of Sichuan Metallurgical College, and the Hydraulic Engineering

Department of Wuhan Institute of Water Transportation Engineering. In 1985, the

school became one of the third batch of postgraduate degree conferring

institutions. In 2006, it was again renamed Chongqing Jiaotong University, and

listed as a doctoral degree conferring institution.

Seven decades of development and deposits have made CQJTU a unique university.

The university has three campuses: Nan'an, Western (Chongqing) Science City and

Daping. Together, they occupy an area of nearly 200 hectares in total and over

820,000 square meters of school buildings. It has one national and six

municipal experimental teaching demonstration centers. It offers 16 doctoral

programs and three postdoctoral programs. With 19 schools (departments), the

university offers 13 national first-class undergraduate programs and 38

Chongqing first-class undergraduate programs.

Highlighting "Transportation+" education, the university pursues creative ways

to produce the best minds. Today, it's home to over 30,000 full-time students.

The initial employment rate for undergraduates has exceeded 90 percent for 23

years in a row. It is also listed in the first batch of the "Chinese Exemplary

University of Employment" and "Chinese Exemplary University of Innovation and

Entrepreneurship".

The university has seen improving technological innovation capabilities in the

past seven decades. It has formed a comprehensive scientific research platform

with three national key research platforms, including the State Key Laboratory

of Bridge and Tunnel Engineering in Mountainous Areas, the National Research

Center of Inland Waterway Regulation Engineering and Technology, and the

National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Transportation and Civil

Engineering Materials, 41 provincial and ministerial-level platforms and more

than 20 R&D institutions. A string of influential accomplishments in the field

of transportation infrastructure in mountainous areas, ecological waterways,

railway transport equipment, transportation and logistics, and green aviation

earned 16 titles in national science and technology progress awards and

national technological invention awards, and over 500 provincial and

ministerial level science and technology awards for the university.

CQJTU initiated the Sino-Polish University Consortium under the Belt and Road

Initiative and established two Confucius Institutes in Benin and the United

States respectively. It is a training institution authorized by the Chinese

Government Scholarship and the International Chinese Language Teachers

Scholarship, offering six joint programs cooperating with universities in the

UK and Australia, and three programs outside China cooperating with

universities and institutions in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Benin.

Looking forward, CQJTU will always follow the motto of "Virtues in Mind &

Transport Worldwide", and the tradition of "Paving Stone Spirit" to expand

influence beyond the western region and even China to establish an

internationally renowned distinctive university with a primary focus on

engineering, coordinating the development of multiple disciplines, and

contributing to the transportation industry, the local economy, and social

development.

Source: Chongqing Jiaotong University