Chongqing Jiaotong University

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Chongqing Jiaotong University

重庆交通大学
Motto	空谈误国，实干兴邦，明德笃学，求实创新
Type	Public university
Established	1951
President	Tang Boming
Students	24,000
Location	Chongqing , China
Campus	Suburban
Website	cqjtu.edu.cn

Chongqing Jiaotong University (CQJTU) is a municipal public university in Nan'an, Chongqing, China. It is affiliated with the City of Chongqing.

Chongqing Jiaotong University is authorized to confer three Ph.D. degree programs, 27 master's degree programs and 42 bachelor degree majors.^{[citation needed]} It is qualified to confer master's degrees to personnel of the same academic background and authority to confer engineering master's degrees in five fields.

The total enrollment of full-time students is over 16,000.^{[citation needed]}

The university has a staff of 1,700 including 1,000 academic faculty members among whom there are five State-level candidates of the State “hundreds and thousands talents project”, altogether over 390 professors and associate professors.^{[citation needed]} Three academics of the China Academy of Engineering — Zheng Jielian, Han Qiwei and Liang Yincheng — are specially engaged professors of the university.^{[citation needed]}

In addition, the university has 120 talents including top-level candidates of the “thousands and hundreds talents project” of the Ministry of Communications (MOC), scientific and technical talents of the MOC, top-class academic and technological leaders of the Chongqing Municipality and provincial-ministerial-level specialists and experts, all entitled to governmental special allowances of the State Council.^{[citation needed]}

The university has engaged over 140 part-time professors including academics of the China Academy, the China Academy of Engineering, foreign academics, experts and scholars both home and abroad.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, the university underwent a teaching level evaluation of normal college undergraduates given by the Ministry of Education and the evaluation result was “Fine”.^{[citation needed]} The graduate supply of the university falls short of demands and initial employment rate of normal college graduates has exceeded 90% for eight consecutive years. Over 50 years of operation, the university has cultivated over 40,000 graduates for the State including Zhemg Jielian, academic of the China Academy of Engineering, and Liu Xiaofeng, vice governor of Sichuan Province.^{[citation needed]}

In the last five years^[when?] the university has undertaken 40 scientific research programs of State grade, 250 scientific and research programs of provincial and ministerial grades and has published 100 academic works and 4,000 academic papers.^{[citation needed]}

The university has obtained 20 patents for inventions.^{[citation needed]}

It has issued three public academic journals among which Applied Mathematics and Mechanism (whose chief editor Qian Weichang is an academic of the China Academy of Science) is mainly operated by the university and included in SCI and EI.^{[citation needed]} The journal is published in Chinese and English versions to more than 50 states and districts all over the world. The Journal of Chongqing Jiaotong University (natural science edition) is a scientific and technological journal associated with the university.^{[citation needed]}

The university library has 1.4 million books and a broadband Internet network that covers the entire campus.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2000, after receiving State invention award in 1996 and the second and the third prizes of the State scientific and technological progress in 1998, the university has received another three State prizes: the State first prize and the second prize for scientific and technological progress, the State second prize for teaching fruit.^{[clarification needed][citation needed]}

Chongqing Jiaotong University has cooperative relationships with 30 foreign universities and scientific research units including the University of Texas in United States, University of Hannover in Germany, University of St. Petersburg in Russia, University of Burgos^[1] in Spain and University of Hanoi in Vietnam.^{[citation needed]} Since 2004, the university has started to enroll overseas students.^[2]

• Official website (in English)

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