Chongqing University: The best university in Chongqing
In recent years, Chongqing, as China's largest municipality, a national central city, and a hub city of the "Belt and Road" and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, has become really popular. Whether it is the ubiquitous Internet celebrity attribute or the hard-core strength represented by automotive electronics, it has an irreplaceable position in the hearts of netizens across the country. But when it comes to education in Chongqing, many friends don't know that in fact, we also have top universities in Chongqing. For example, Chongqing University, founded in 1929, is a treasure university with a long history, many famous scholars, and many talents.
1. Long and profound school history
Chongqing University was founded in 1929. At the beginning of its establishment, it proposed the vision of building a "complete and profound university". By the 1940s, the school had developed into a comprehensive university with a full range of disciplines in liberal arts, science, business, and forensics. From 1937 to 1946, National Central University and National Shandong University also taught together on the campus of Chongqing University.
After the founding of New China, Chongqing University is one of the universities with the most complete disciplines and the strongest comprehensive strength in the country. In 1952, in order to support the development of national higher education, the five colleges of liberal arts, science, business, law, and medicine, as well as the civil engineering, chemical engineering, and radio departments of the School of Engineering were transferred out, and more than ten domestic brother colleges were established and supported, making great contributions to national higher education.
In the 95 years since the school was founded, Ma Yinchu, Li Siguang, He Lu, Feng Jian, Wu Mi, Wu Guanzhong... many national treasure-level teachers have taught, lived, and studied here, cultivating more than 500,000 students and cultivating pillars for all walks of life in the country, including Li Xiaohong, President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Ren Zhengfei, President of Huawei, and other outstanding talents in various fields.
2. Rapid development momentum
In 2000, the original Chongqing University, Chongqing Jianzhu University and Chongqing Jianzhu College merged to form the new Chongqing University. Today, Chongqing University has a total of 5 campuses, covering an area of 5,300 acres. It is not only a centrally-administered university and the best university in Chongqing, but also selected as a key construction university of the "211 Project", a key construction university of the national "985 Project", and a "Class A university for the construction of world-class universities". It is also one of the famous "Eight Old Schools of Architecture" and "Five Tigers of Electrical Engineering" in the country.
In recent years, the development momentum has been even more rapid, with 16 disciplines entering the top 1% of ESI globally, and three disciplines, engineering, materials science and chemistry, entering the top 1/1000 of ESI globally, among which engineering has entered the top 1/1000 of ESI globally, ranking 18th in the world.
It is reported that Chongqing University will also build a new Zhigu Campus in the High-tech Zone, mainly to build the Jialing River Laboratory, Chongqing Institute of Advanced Studies, ultra-transient large scientific facilities, chip laboratories, etc. The construction of the Medical Science and Technology Innovation Park in the Western Science City and the creation of the Jinfeng International Medical Center will give the school a broader development space and pattern in the future. The establishment of several major centers, coupled with the opportunities of the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle and the Western Development, will bring huge development potential in the future.
If the above description is still relatively general, then Yufan will list some of the achievements made by Chongqing University in the past 2023, which will definitely make people take notice:
High standards are being promoted to build the National Excellent Engineer College, and the establishment of an excellent engineer training consortium in the field of smart energy is initiated; the first prize and 7 second prizes of the national teaching achievement awards are won, and the "New Engineering Education" achievements jointly completed with brother universities won the special prize; the national energy storage technology industry-education integration innovation platform is approved, and it is selected as the first batch of universities in the "101 Plan" and the first batch of pilot universities in the "National Excellent Plan".
The number of newly added national high-level talents of various types has reached a new high. Professor Liu Hanlong was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor Jiang Xingliang's team was selected as the third batch of "National University Huang Danian-style Teacher Team", and Professor Li Baizhan was awarded the national "Outstanding Teaching Award".
Led the first prize of 2 Ministry of Education Science and Technology Awards and 10 Chongqing Science and Technology Awards; won 7 first prizes of Chongqing Social Science Outstanding Achievement Awards and 2 first prizes of Development Research Outstanding Achievement Awards. Published a paper in Science as the first completion unit and the first corresponding author unit.
The joint construction of Chongqing University Affiliated People's Hospital was officially signed and listed, and the number of affiliated hospitals reached 8. The "Southwest Theoretical Physics Center" of the National Natural Science Foundation of China was officially unveiled; speeded up the construction of public experimental platforms such as quantum matter and future chips, and planned to build the Jialing River Laboratory from a high starting point;
Continued to improve the construction and operation mechanism of 5 national key laboratories, and added 3 Ministry of Education innovation platforms such as the Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Analysis, Mathematics and Applications of the Ministry of Education; the main accelerator of the science center, engineering laboratory building, and ultra-transient experimental device is about to be completed; the main structure of the scientific research building of the ground experimental base of the space solar power station has been capped; the large-scale strong steady-state fusion neutron source device has started construction.
Successfully hosted the first national "Belt and Road" Science and Technology Exchange Conference President Roundtable Meeting, initiated the establishment of the "Belt and Road" Global University Science and Technology Cooperation Alliance; made every effort to build the Yangtze River Ecological Environment Joint Graduate School to help the green and high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt...
3. Poetic campus environment
University is a place for learning, and the library is an important indicator for measuring a school. The Chongqing University Library has 3 branches with rich collections, including 5.2 million physical collections and more than 13 million digital collections. It is one of the largest libraries in the west.
The Huxi Campus not only has a science branch and a local chronicles library, but also a unique community bookstore. Downstairs of the four major dormitory areas of Lanyuan, Zhuyuan, Meiyuan, and Songyuan, there are 4 high-value bookstores, where students can borrow books and study and read by themselves.
The dormitory environment of Chongqing University is beautiful, with green pines and bamboos, and a beautiful environment. Moreover, undergraduates are all 4-person rooms, with beds and desks. The dormitories are equipped with independent bathrooms, air conditioners, balconies, independent wardrobes and water dispensers, and have a good rest environment. Chongqing University