英文介紹
Chongqing UniversityFounded in 1929, Chongqing University had become a national comprehensive university consisting of six colleges in liberal arts, science, engineering, law science and medical science early in 1940s, thus earned a prestige both domestic and abroad then for its outstanding performance in schooling. A large number of famous scholars such as Li Siguang, Ma Yinchu, He Lu, etc., have dedicated to the establishment of a solid academic foundation as well as a religious schooling tradition of Chongqing University. In 1952, the nationwide restructuring of higher learning institutions turned Chongqing University into an engineering-orientated multi-disciplinary university under the State Ministry of Education. In 1960, Chongqing University was designated as one of the first key national universities. Since the implementation of reform and opening-up policy in China, Chongqing University has stressed the development of disciplines like humanities, business management, art, sports education, which further speeds up the process of developing itself into a comprehensive institution of higher learning. To suit the needs of higher education development in the 21st century, and to further promote the university's overall strength, in accordance with the State resolution on institutional reform of universities, Chongqing University merged with Chongqing Jianzhu University and Chongqing Architectural College on May 31 2000, forming a new Chongqing University. In maintaining its previous disciplinary advantage in mechanical and electrical engineering, energy, material science, information technology, bioengineering, business administration, the merger upgrades the new Chongqing University's academic status in China in the fields of architecture, civil engineering and environmental protection. For its further construction and development, and with the greater support of the State Ministry of Education and Chongqing Municipal Government in terms of capital investment, the new Chongqing University has readjusted its education philosophy, formulated its development scheme during the tenth "five-year plan" period. Correspondingly, the university has revised its talent-cultivation scheme and teaching program by laying stress on fostering students' innovation ability, improving students' allround quality. Thus, the university has carried out a series of new measures in its teaching reform, including: renowned professors giving lectures for undergraduate students, bilingual teaching project, innovative talent training program, the system for outstanding students to conduct a consecutive study of bachelor's degree and master's degree programs, etc. Besides, the university has perfected its credit system by adding and strengthening the major and minor specialty program, the flexible schooling system, the second-degree program, and the outstanding students training program, etc. The university has also reformed its standards and modes of choosing undergraduate students for conducting postgraduate programs without taking the entrance exam.
At present, Chongqing University runs 24 colleges or faculties, plus the Graduate school, the City College, the College of Continuing Education, the College of Networking Education. The University now has a total enrollment of 35, 455 students, of which 1481 are doctoral students, 5,414 are master degree candidates, 26,433 are undergraduate students, 2,045 are vocational students , and 82 are overseas students. The university owns 15 mobile workstations for postdoctoral study, 14 preliminary-level programs and 51 secondary-level programs for doctoral study, 111 programs for master's degree study as well as 4 specialized master's degree programs, namely MBA, EMBA,MPA, master of engineering, and 73 bachelor's degree programs, 7 associate degree programs. Currently, the university has a total number of 5,834 faculty and staff members, among which 2,623 are full-time teachers, 8 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and of the Chinese Academy of Science (including academicians engaged from other institutions), 5 members of the Subject Appraisal Team of the Degree Committee under the State Council, 15 titled the state-level middle-aged or young experts with distinguished contribution, 171 doctoral tutors, 301 experts awarded the governmental allowance, 1,519 full professors and associate professors.
Chongqing University covers a total area of 5,700 mu (about 380 hectares), with 1.39 million square meters of construction space. The university library is well equipped with modern facilities of large scale, with a collection of 2.79 million volumes, 6000 kinds of Chinese and foreign periodicals, and 140,000 volumes of E-books. In addition to electronic reading rooms, the China Education Research Network (CERNET) Chongqing Central Node is set up in the library. Chongqing University is in possession of 16 state level key subjects and key constructed subjects under the state "211 Project", 34 provincial or ministerial level key subjects. The university sets up 9 specially appointed professor posts under the "Yangtze River Scholar Award Program". It has established 2 national teaching bases for fundamental courses and a national quality education base for college students, 5 national key labs and ministerial key labs, 17 provincial key labs, and 93 labs of different specialties. Moreover, Chongqing University has constructed the distance education center, multi-media classrooms of large scale and interactive audio-visual classrooms, labs or training centers in cooperation with world famous enterprises such as Siemens, Microsoft, IBM, Rockwell, Omron, etc. The university has a national key publishing house, a national first-class architectural designing institute, and a first-class institute for planning and design. In 2001, Chongqing University Technology Park came into being, being one of the 22 state-level university technology parks in China. Now a unique school-running pattern has been formed in the university which is characterized by offering a wide category of disciplines, rationalizing its disciplinary structure, maintaining its prominent advantage in engineering disciplines, increasingly enriching science disciplines, and further developing such lisciplines as economics, management, and humanities and social sciences. In recent years, the university has undertaken over 100 national key scientific projects of different types, and won 13 National Awards for Invention, 40 Awards for Scientific and Technological Advancement, 4 Awards for Natural Science, 968 ministerial and provincial awards, 33 Awards for Teaching Achievement. Chongqing University attaches importance to international academic exchange and cooperation. It has established inter-school exchange links with 32 institutions of higher education in 13 countries such as the USA, England, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Holland, Japan, South Korea, Russia, etc. Since the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy, Chongqing University has sent nearly 3000 teachers abroad for further study, attending international academic conference, or for academic visit or inspection; and received over 7200 overseas scholars including some world famous scholars like Dr. Z. N. Yang, Dr. Z. D. Li, Dr. C. L. Tien, Dr. L. R. Klein. Besides, the university has forged cooperative relations with about 20 prestigious international corporations or institutions such as Siemens, Rockwell Automation, IBM, Microsoft, Lipo Group, New York Life Insurance, Omron, FUNUC and etc. Chongqing University is a university specified by the Ministry of Education to receive overseas students who are granted the Chinese Government Scholarship. Up to now, overseas students from over 20 countries including South Korea, Tailand, the U.S., Japan, Vietnam, Syria, Ghana, Mali, Iraq, etc. have come to Chongqing University for study. In 2003, there were 110 international students enrolled to Chongqing university, doing PhD degrees, or Master's degrees, or bachelor's degrees, or just studying Chinese language.
The growth of Chongqing University has received much attention and concern from the state leaders. Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, and Li Lanqing once inspected the university and fully affirmed its achievements. Graduates from Chongqing University are very much welcomed by employers for their high overall quality and strong capability. Every year there are a large number of well noted enterprises or organizations coming to the university for employing its graduates, which makes the university keep a good trend in the employment of its graduate students. Since its founding, Chongqing University has become an important education base as well as a research center, providing the country with more than 10,000 advanced professionals who have become the backbone in the nation's Economic construction. There are over 40 schoolfellows of the university who are now members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering or members of the Chinese Academy of Science. Famous schoolfellows who are engaged in social sciences include Yang Mingzhao (a famous poet), Yan Su (a famous lyricist) and Qian Rongkun ( a famous economist).
Looking on the future, catching the historical opportunity of the West Development and of the joint financial support from the state Ministry of Education and Chongqing Municipal government, Chongqing University is fully committed to implementing the strategy of "prospering the country and Chongqing city with science-and-technology and education", sticking to its education philosophy of "taking root in Chongqing, finding a foothold in the Southwest, facing the West, Serving the whole nation, stepping towards the world", carrying forward its excellent schooling tradition, striving for the realization of its goal of developing Chongqing University into a first-class comprehensive research university in China, with unique characteristics and international fame.
中文介紹
重慶大學是一所國家教育部直屬的、擁有研究生院，本科專業涵蓋了理、工、文、經、管、法、教育等學科門類的全國著名綜合性重點大學，也是國家“211工程”和“985工程”重點建設大學。
重慶大學創辦於1929年，早在二十世紀四十年代就成為一所擁有文、理、工、商、法、醫等六個學院的國立綜合性大學並聞名國內外。李四光、馬寅初、何魯、馮簡、柯召、吳宓、吳冠中等一大批著名學者曾在學校辛勤耕耘，為學校奠定了堅實的學術基礎，形成了嚴謹的治學傳統。經過1952年的全國院系調整，重慶大學成為了一所國家教育部直屬的、以工為主的多科性大學，1960年被國家確定為首批全國重點大學。改革開放以來重慶大學大力發展人文、經管、藝術、體育等學科專業，新學科專業的崛起進一步加速了重慶大學向綜合性大學發展的進程。為了適應二十一世紀高等教育發展的需要，進一步提高學校的綜合實力，根據國家有關高等教育管理體制改革的決定，重慶大學、重慶建築大學、重慶建築高等專科學校三校於2000年5月31日合併組建成新重慶大學，使得一直以機電、能源、材料、信息、生物、經管等學科優勢而著稱的重慶大學，在建築、土木、環保等學科方面也處於全國較高水平。為了建設好新重大，國家教育部和重慶市政府給予了較大的資金投入，學校重新調整了辦學指導思想，制定了“十五”發展規劃，同時將2001－2002年作為新重大教學質量年，確定了按照“厚基礎，寬口徑，強能力，高素質”的目標來調整人才培養方案和修訂教學計畫，在教學中加強創新能力培養，提高學生的綜合素質，學校實施了一系列教學改革新措施包括：名師上講台工程、中英文雙語教學工程、“創新人才培養”工程、本碩連讀制度等，進一步完善學分制管理制度包括主輔修制、彈性學制、第二學位制、優異生培養制度等，改革推免研究生選拔標準和方式。
重慶大學現有理、工、經、管、文、法、藝、教育等24個學院，以及研究生院、繼續教育學院、城市學院，網路教育學院。學校現有全日制在校學生50000餘人，其中博、碩及專業學位研究生12000餘人，本專科學生28000餘人，其餘為繼續教育和網路教育學生。學校擁有博士後流動站15個，一級學科博士學位授權點16個，二級學科博士學位授權點60個，碩士學位授權點182個，以及工程碩士、工商管理碩士（MBA）、高級管理人員工商管理碩士（EMBA）、公共管理碩士（MPA）、會計學（MPAcc）、高校教師 、風景園林碩士、建築學8個專業學位授權點，以及國務院學位辦備案的博士學位授權一級學科範圍內自主設定的學科專業28個，本科專業76個。在職教職工5776人，其中專任教師2615人，中國工程院院士及中國科學院院士10人（含外聘兩院院士），國務院學位委員會學科評議組成員5人，國家級有突出貢獻的中青年專家15人，“長江學者獎勵計畫”15人，博士生導師224人，享受政府特殊津貼專家301人，教授和副教授1400餘人。
重慶大學校園占地總面積5700畝，校舍建築面積141萬多平方米。學校擁有規模大設施先進館內藏書285多萬冊，中外期刊6000餘種，電子圖書20萬多冊，建有電子閱覽室，中國教育科研網路重慶中心節點站也設在本校。學校擁有國家重點建設科技創新平台8個，國家重點學科及國家“211工程”重點建設學科16個；省部級重點學科34個；建有國家基礎課程教學基地和國家大學生文化素質教育基地3個、國家重點實驗室、教育部重點實驗室5個，省級重點實驗室45個，其它各類專業實驗室93個；建有遠程教育中心、規模較大的多媒體教室和多媒體互動式語音教室、外國知名企業在學校設立的實驗室或培訓中心（如西門子、微軟、IBM、羅克韋爾、歐姆龍、法拉克等）；擁有國家甲級建築設計研究院和規劃設計研究院、國家重點出版社等，學校主編全國公開發行的專業刊物8種；建有重慶大學科技園（全國首批22個國家級大學科技園之一）。形成了學科門類比較齊全、結構趨於合理、工科優勢明顯、理科不斷充實、經濟、管理和人文社會學科不斷發展並各具特色的辦學格局。近年來學校承擔了國家自然科學重點基金項目、“九五”攻關項目、863項目、國防科研項目等100餘項，先後獲得國家發明獎13項，科技進步獎40項，自然科學獎4項，部省級獎1000多項，國家教學成果獎42項，省級教學成果獎133項。
重慶大學重視國際間的學術交流與合作。先後與美、英、法、德、意、加、澳、荷、日、韓、俄、波等13個國家的32所高校建立了校際交流關係。改革開放以來，重慶大學派出了近3000人次出國留學、參加國際學術會議或訪問考察等；接待了7200餘人次的外國客人來訪，其中包括楊振寧、李政道、田長霖、克萊茵等國際知名學者；先後與德國Siemens、美國Rockwell自動化、IBM、Microsoft、利寶集團、紐約人壽國際公司；日本OMRON、FUNUC、電裝株式會社；香港美視電力集團近20家境外公司或機構建立了交流與合作關係。重慶大學是教育部指定的接收中國政府獎學金生的院校，目前已接受來自韓國、泰國、美國、日本、越南、敘利亞、加納、馬里、伊拉克等20多個國家的留學生。2004年共有82名外國留學生在我校就讀漢語和文理工等專業，學生層次包括博士、碩士、本科和漢語進修生。
重慶大學的建設和發展一直得到黨和國家領導人的高度重視，江澤民、李鵬、李嵐清等曾到學校視察，對學校所取得的辦學成就給予了充分的肯定。重大的畢業生綜合素質高、套用能力強，深受用人單位的歡迎。每年全國各地的知名企事業單位均來學校招聘畢業生，使得我校畢業生的就業形勢一直保持著良好的趨勢，本科畢業生的一次性就業率均在90%以上。建校七十餘年來，重慶大學已成為國家人才培養的重要基地和科學研究中心，為國家輸送了十萬餘名高級專門人才，他們成為了國家經濟建設和社會發展各條戰線的中堅力量。其中當選為中國科學院、中國工程院院士的校友達40餘人，從事社會科學的知名人士有著名詩人楊明照、著名詞作家閆肅、著名經濟學家錢榮堃等。
面向未來，重慶大學抓住西部大開發以及教育部與重慶市共建重大的大好機遇，全面落實“科教興國、科教興渝”的戰略，堅持“紮根重慶、立足西南、面向西部、服務全國、走向世界”的辦學思路，發揚重慶大學的優良辦學傳統，團結拼博，勇於創新，為把重慶大學建設成為國內一流、國際知名、具有自身特色的研究型綜合性大學而努力奮鬥！
