Chongqing Jiaotong University

Chongqing Jiaotong University is an engineering-led multidisciplinary university with a distinctive transport focus. In 1951, following Chairman Mao’s instructions to build the Kangding-Tibet Highway and develop southwest China, the Southwest Military and Political Committee led by Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping established the Southwest Transportation College. Chongqing Jiaotong Institute was formed in 1960, with the subsequent incorporation of the Civil Engineering Department of Chengdu Institute of Technology, Metallurgy Department of Sichuan Institute of Metallurgy and Hydraulic Engineering Department of Wuhan Institute of Water Transport. It was renamed Chongqing Jiaotong University in 2006. In 2000, administration was transferred from the Ministry of Communications to Chongqing Municipality. It is now jointly supported by the Ministry of Transport and Chongqing.

Educational conditions continue to improve. Its Nan’an, Shuangfu and Daping campuses cover nearly 3000 mu, with more than 740000 square meters of buildings. Its library has 4.42 million printed and electronic documents, 1501 periodical titles and 101 Chinese and foreign databases. Teaching and research equipment is valued at RMB 447 million. It has 1 national and 5 municipal experimental teaching demonstration centers.

It has a high-quality faculty. Its 2023 faculty and staff include 1366 full-time teachers and 680 with senior professional titles. Staff have received more than 120 national, provincial or ministerial talent selections, including Chang Jiang distinguished professors, Thousand Talents Program and Ten Thousand Talents Plan science and technology innovation leaders, national Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project recipients, Ministry of Transport Ten-Hundred-Thousand Talent Project recipients, and Chongqing Bayu Scholars. It has appointed more than 150 distinguished or adjunct professors, including Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering members, prominent entrepreneurs and engineering masters.

Its disciplines and programs have a distinctive transport focus. It has 3 first-level doctoral degree authorization fields in Transportation Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, and Management Science and Engineering; 3 postdoctoral research stations in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Hydraulic Engineering; and 14 first-level master’s degree authorization fields, including Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Its 18 schools include Civil Engineering, River and Ocean Engineering, and Transportation. It has 61 regular undergraduate programs. Three nationally distinctive programs—Civil Engineering, Port, Waterway and Coastal Engineering, and Transportation—have passed engineering education accreditation. Seven programs, including Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, have been approved as pilots under the Ministry of Education’s Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program. It has 15 distinctive programs and 7 distinctive discipline and program clusters under Chongqing’s Three Distinctive Features Action Plan.

It continually deepens education and teaching reform, improves coordinated teaching mechanisms, innovates in education for life, expands practical platforms, emphasizes Transportation+ training, and develops new training models. It has created an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park and experimental classes including Mao Yisheng, Elite Talent, Excellent Engineer, Overseas Project Management Talent, CIMA, and Innovation and Entrepreneurship classes. It has 27757 full-time students, including 23846 regular undergraduates, and has trained more than 150000 people across categories and levels. Undergraduate initial employment has exceeded 90% for 19 consecutive years. It was among the first National Universities with Exemplary Graduate Employment Practices and first National Universities with Exemplary Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practices.

It has strong innovation capabilities, with 3 national platforms: the National Engineering Research Center for Inland Waterway Regulation, the cultivation base for the National Key Laboratory of Mountain Bridge and Tunnel Engineering, and the National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Materials in Transport Civil Engineering. Its 33 provincial or ministerial platforms include the transportation industry Key Laboratory of Bridge Structural Engineering, the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Hydraulic and Water Transport Engineering, and the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Mountainous Urban Transport Systems and Safety. It has more than 20 research and development institutions, including the Southwest Water Transport Research Institute and Institute of Desert Soilization. It has produced influential achievements in mountain bridges and tunnels, roadbeds and pavements, inland ports and waterways, monorail transit, and transport logistics. It has received 12 National Science and Technology Progress and National Invention Awards and over 300 provincial or ministerial science and technology awards. It publishes journals including Applied Mathematics and Mechanics and the Journal of Chongqing Jiaotong University, in natural sciences and social sciences editions.

International exchange and cooperation continue to progress. It initiated the Belt and Road Sino-Polish University Alliance, is a core member of the Sino-Russian Transport University Alliance, operates a Confucius Institute in Benin, and has Ministry of Education-registered centers for European Studies and Benin Studies. It cooperates with more than 50 overseas universities in Europe, the Americas and elsewhere. It offers an undergraduate program in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages and 5 fully English-taught programs. It is an institution entrusted to educate Chinese Government Scholarship students and recruits internationally.

Looking ahead, it upholds the motto “Illuminate Virtue and Go Far, Connect the World through Transport” and the tradition “Willing to Be a Paving Stone, Advancing Without End.” Rooted in western China and serving the nation, it pursues excellence and aims to become a distinctive, high-level engineering-led multidisciplinary university with strong advantages, national recognition and international influence, contributing to transport and local economic and social development.

Chongqing Jiaotong University

Address: 66 Xuefu Avenue, Nan’an District, Chongqing, China

Postal code: 400074

Campus telephone directory: (023)62651999

University Communications Service Department fax: (023)62650387

Party and Administration Office telephone: (023)62652333 62652334

Party and Administration Office fax: (023)62650561

Legal representative: Tang Boming

Website: http://www.cqjtu.edu.cn/

Chongqing ICP Registration No. 11007697-1