Chongqing Jiaotong University marks 70th anniversary with glorious past and promising future
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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
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