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