Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), known in Chinese as 北京化工大学, is a public research university in the Chaoyang district of Beijing, founded in 1958 as the Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology and directly administered by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.北京化工大学（英文 Beijing University of Chemical Technology，缩写 BUCT，中文原名北京化工学院）是位于北京市朝阳区的公立研究型大学，创办于 1958 年，现为中华人民共和国教育部直属高校。

It is a national key university built under the 211 Project and the 985 advantage discipline innovation platform, and since 2017 it has formed part of the Double First-Class construction, with chemical engineering and technology designated as its world-class discipline.学校是国家「211 工程」与「985 优势学科创新平台」重点建设院校，2017 年起进入国家「双一流」建设高校行列，化学工程与技术入选世界一流建设学科。

As of 2024 it enrolled more than 16,000 full-time undergraduates and about 9,800 postgraduates, among them 1,700 doctoral students, supported by a staff of more than 2,700, and the QS World University Rankings 2027 place it at 649th in the world.截至 2024 年，学校有全日制本科生 16,000 余人、研究生 9,800 余人（其中博士生 1,700 余人），教职工 2,700 余人；2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将其列为世界第 649 位。

History

• The university was established in 1958 as the Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology, a school created by the young People's Republic to train the senior chemical engineers needed by advanced science and industry.学校创办于 1958 年，初名北京化工学院，是新中国为「培养尖端科学发展所需的高级化工技术人才」而创建的高水平大学。

• In its first years the institute was placed under the Ministry of the Chemical Industry, and Li Su served as its first president from August 1958 to December 1960.建校初期学校隶属原化学工业部领导，李苏自 1958 年 8 月至 1960 年 12 月出任首任院长。

• Planners debated whether to place the campus with the other Beijing colleges in the north-western suburbs, and the site finally chosen was at Hepingjie Beikou beside the ministry offices, which is today's East campus on the North Third Ring Road.建校选址曾有争论，一度主张与北京其他学院同建在西北郊高校区，最终选定化工部办公大楼附近的和平街北口，即今北三环旁的东校区。

• When it opened the institute had three departments and twelve undergraduate programmes, about 3,150 students and roughly 90,000 square metres of buildings.建校初期学校设 3 个系、12 个本科专业，在校生规模约 3,150 人，校舍建筑面积约 9 万平方米。

• In October 1960 the central government named the Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology one of the country's national key universities, a status that shaped its later growth.1960 年 10 月，中共中央决定将北京化工学院列为全国重点大学，这一身份影响了学校此后的发展路径。

• During the Cultural Revolution the school was badly disrupted, classes stopped and admissions were suspended across the five years from 1966 to 1970.「文化大革命」期间学校遭到严重破坏，1966 年至 1970 年的五年间停课并中断招生。

• In October 1971 the institute merged with the Beijing Institute of Chemical Fibre Engineering, and the combined school carried out a sweeping readjustment of programmes, closing all its classified advanced specialities and setting up five departments with fourteen programmes.1971 年 10 月，学院与北京化纤工学院合并组建新的北京化工学院；这期间学校大幅调整专业，停办全部尖端绝密专业，改设 5 个系、14 个专业。

• Between 1971 and 1976 the institute admitted six cohorts of worker-peasant-soldier students, then the only route into higher education.1971 年至 1976 年，学院招收 6 届工农兵学员，这是当时进入高等教育的唯一通道。

• After the national college entrance examination was restored in October 1977 the institute resumed four-year undergraduate recruitment, and in 1978 it enrolled its first graduate students.1977 年 10 月恢复统一高考招生后，学院重新招收四年制本科生；1978 年招收首届研究生。

• In October 1978 the Beijing Institute of Chemical Fibre Engineering separated from the school again, ending the seven-year merger.1978 年 10 月，北京化纤工学院从学校分出，结束了长达七年的合并。

• The institute won the right to confer master's degrees in 1981 and doctoral degrees in 1984, and its first doctoral students graduated in 1987.学院于 1981 年获得硕士学位授予权、1984 年获得博士学位授予权，1987 年首届博士生毕业。

• In February 1994 the school was renamed Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and Jiang Zemin, then general secretary of the Communist Party of China, inscribed its name.1994 年 2 月，学校更名为北京化工大学，时任中共中央总书记江泽民为学校题写校名。

• In April 1996 the Beijing Institute of Chemical Engineering Management Cadre was merged into the university, forming what became its West campus in the Haidian district.1996 年 4 月，北京化工管理干部学院并入学校，成为后来位于海淀区的西校区。

• In September 1998 the university passed from the chemical industry ministry to direct administration by the Ministry of Education.1998 年 9 月，学校划转为教育部直属高校。

• In July 2001 the university passed the acceptance review of its 211 Project construction for the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, confirming its place in that national scheme.2001 年 7 月，学校通过国家「211 工程」「九五」期间建设项目验收，确立了在该工程中的位置。

• In 2008 the university entered the 985 Project advantage discipline innovation platform, an additional layer of national investment in its strongest fields.2008 年，学校进入「985 工程」优势学科创新平台建设高校行列，为国家在其优势学科上的又一层投入。

• Construction of the Changping campus in Nankou Town began on 12 June 2014, its first phase of buildings started in September 2015, and the campus officially opened on 2 September 2017.昌平南口镇新校区于 2014 年 6 月 12 日启动基础设施建设，2015 年 9 月启动一期单体项目，2017 年 9 月 2 日正式启用。

• In 2017 the university also entered the national Double First-Class construction, and in September 2024 ten of its subject areas stood among the top one per cent of the ESI rankings.2017 年学校同时入选国家「双一流」建设高校行列；2024 年 9 月，学校有 10 个学科进入 ESI 全球前 1%。

Academics

• The university is organised into eighteen colleges and departments that span chemical engineering, materials science, mechanical and electrical engineering, information science, life science, economics and management, chemistry, mathematics and physics, humanities and law, and art and design.学校现设 18 个院（系），涵盖化学工程、材料科学、机电工程、信息科学、生命科学、经济管理、化学、数理、文法以及艺术设计等门类。

• Its strongest field, chemical engineering and technology, was named a world-class discipline in the Double First-Class scheme, and the university reports notable A-class gains in the latest national discipline evaluation.学校的优势学科化学工程与技术入选「双一流」世界一流建设学科，校方称在最新一轮学科评估中 A 类学科取得显著突破。

• As of September 2024 ten subject areas ranked in the global top one per cent of the ESI index, namely chemistry, materials science, engineering, biology and biochemistry, ecology and environment, computer science, agricultural science, geosciences, physics, and pharmacology and toxicology.截至 2024 年 9 月，学校有化学、材料科学、工程学、生物学与生物化学、生态与环境学、计算机科学、农业科学、地球科学、物理学、药理学与毒理学共 10 个学科进入 ESI 全球前 1%。

• Three of those areas, chemistry, materials science and engineering, reached the global top one per mille, placing the university among the most cited institutions in those subjects.其中化学、材料科学、工程学 3 个领域进入 ESI 全球前 1‰，使学校跻身这些学科的高被引机构行列。

• The university offers eight first-level doctoral programmes, twenty-two first-level master's programmes, one second-level master's programme, two professional doctoral categories and eleven professional master's categories.学校设有 8 个一级学科博士点、22 个一级学科硕士点、1 个二级学科硕士点，以及 2 个博士专业学位授权类别和 11 个硕士专业学位授权类别。

• It runs sixty-six undergraduate programmes, of which twenty-two are national first-class undergraduate programme construction points and eight are national characteristic specialities, alongside eight postdoctoral research stations.学校开设 66 个本科专业，其中 22 个为国家级一流本科专业建设点、8 个为国家级特色专业建设点，并建有 8 个博士后流动站。

• The faculty numbers more than 2,700, including eight academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, five further national academicians, sixty-three national high-level talents and eighty-five national young talents.学校教职工 2,700 余人，其中两院院士 8 人（含中国科学院、中国工程院外籍院士各 1 名）、其他国家院士 5 人，另有国家级高层次人才 63 人次、国家级「四青」人才 85 人次。

• Student numbers include more than 16,000 full-time undergraduates, about 9,800 postgraduates of whom 1,700 are doctoral candidates, 2,700 continuing-education students and 360 international degree students.在校学生包括全日制本科生 16,000 余人、研究生约 9,800 人（其中博士生 1,700 余人）、继续教育学生 2,700 余人，以及学历留学生 360 余人。

• The university operates three national key laboratories, among them the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering and the State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, together with a national engineering research centre, a national engineering laboratory and fifteen provincial or ministerial key laboratories.学校建有 3 个国家重点实验室，包括化工资源有效利用国家重点实验室与有机无机复合材料国家重点实验室，另有 1 个国家工程研究中心、1 个国家工程实验室和 15 个省部级重点实验室。

• Research funding received in 2023 exceeded 1.2 billion yuan, and during the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan period the university's annual research budget grew by more than twelve per cent a year.2023 年学校科研经费到款突破 12 亿元，「十四五」时期科研经费年均增长率保持在 12% 以上。

• Since 2001 thirty-three research projects of the university have won national science and technology awards, and it holds four innovation research groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.2001 年以来，学校有 33 个科研项目获得国家科技三大奖，并拥有 4 个国家自然科学基金委员会创新研究群体。

• The university has partnerships with 163 universities and institutions in forty-eight countries and regions, and hosts five discipline innovation and talent introduction bases under the national 111 Plan.学校与 48 个国家和地区的 163 所大学和机构建立合作关系，并建有 5 个高等学校学科创新引智基地（「111 计划」）。

• Together with the University of Miskolc it runs a Confucius Institute in Miskolc, Hungary, established in August 2013 as the third such institute in the country and the first founded by two Chinese partners.学校与米什科尔茨大学在匈牙利米什科尔茨共建孔子学院，该院于 2013 年 8 月成立，是匈牙利第三所孔子学院，也是首所由两家中方伙伴共建的学院。

• Within the university the Hou Debang Engineer College and the Paris Curie Engineer College provide specialised engineering training modelled on the French and Chinese engineering schools.校内设有侯德榜工程师学院与巴黎居里工程师学院，参照中法工程教育模式开展专门的工程师培养。

• Teaching resources include fifteen national excellent courses, two national teaching bases and two national experimental teaching demonstration centres.学校建有 15 门国家级精品课程、2 个国家级教学基地和 2 个国家级实验教学示范中心。

• Every year the university admits students through the national college entrance examination, with its strongest chemical and materials programmes attracting scores well above the provincial average for engineering entrants.学校每年通过全国高考招生，其化学与材料类优势专业的录取分数明显高于工科考生的省平均线。

Campus

• The East campus at 15 Beisanhuan East Road in the Chaoyang district is the original campus founded in 1958 and now the institutional headquarters, serving senior undergraduates, master's students and doctoral candidates on a site of about 342 mu.位于朝阳区北三环东路 15 号的东校区是 1958 年建校时的原校区，也是学校本部所在，现主要承担高年级本科生、硕士与博士培养，占地约 342 亩。

• The West campus lies at 98 Zizhuyuan Road in the Haidian district, covers about 3.63 acres with 90,543 square metres of floor space, and focuses on research, international education and high-end training.西校区位于海淀区紫竹院路 98 号，占地约 3.63 英亩、建筑面积 90,543 平方米，主要承担科学研究、国际教育与高端培训功能。

• The North or Changping campus stands in Nankou Town in the Changping district, some forty kilometres from central Beijing, near the Huyu scenic area and the Badaling-Ming Tombs scenic zone, and is planned to accommodate 18,300 students and 1,500 staff.北校区（昌平校区）位于昌平区南口镇，距市中心约 40 公里，近临虎峪风景区与八达岭—十三陵风景名胜区，规划可容纳 18,300 名学生与 1,500 名教职员工。

• Phase one of the Changping campus covered 344,700 square metres of building space across ten structures, including the first teaching building, library, gymnasium, laboratories, engineering training centre, staff flats, student dormitories and canteen.昌平校区一期建筑总面积 34.47 万平方米，共 10 个单体建筑，包括第一教学楼、图书馆、体育馆、实验楼、工程训练中心、教师公寓、学生宿舍与食堂。

• The first teaching building houses a smart teaching system with 130 classrooms, 122 of them cloud-recorded multimedia rooms and eight fully automatic recorded rooms, in a design the university describes as the first of its kind in China.第一教学楼配置智慧教学系统，设 130 间教室（其中云录播多媒体教室 122 间、全自动录播教室 8 间），校方称这一「云端一体化」设计为国内首创。

• The campus gymnasium contains fourteen halls, including basketball, swimming and tennis facilities, and the outdoor sports grounds include twenty basketball courts, six volleyball courts and ten tennis courts.校区体育馆设有篮球馆、游泳馆、网球馆等 14 个馆室，室外场地包括篮球场 20 个、排球场 6 个、网球场 10 个。

• Three sculptures mark the East campus, a statue of Mao Zedong at the gate, a statue of the chemical engineer Hou Debang on the lawn before the science building, and the sculpture Light of the Alma Mater raised for the university's 45th anniversary.东校区立有三座典型雕塑：校门处的毛泽东雕像、科技大厦前草坪上的侯德榜雕像，以及为纪念建校 45 周年所立的「母校之光」雕塑。

• The East campus stands beside the North Third Ring Road, with its south-west corner near Heping Xiqiao station on subway lines 5 and 12, and it is close to the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and several other colleges.东校区紧邻北三环，西南角靠近地铁 5 号线与 12 号线的和平西桥站，东侧与中日友好医院、北京中医药大学相邻，周边还有多所高校。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place Beijing University of Chemical Technology at 649th in the world, the position under which this entry is catalogued.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将北京化工大学列为世界第 649 位，本条目即按此名次收录。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 put the university in the 551-600 band, after the 401-500 band it held the previous year.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把该校列入第 551-600 位，低于其上一年度的第 401-500 位。

• The US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 places the university 359th in the world.2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名将该校列为世界第 359 位。

• The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2026 places the university in the 201-300 band of its main list, its best showing among the four mainstream global tables.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜将该校列入第 201-300 位，这是它在四项主流全球榜单中的最好表现。

• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities the university's chemical engineering stood sixth in the world as of 2022, a subject position stronger than its overall world rank.在软科世界大学学术排名中，该校化学工程学科截至 2022 年位列世界第 6，其学科名次显著高于整体世界排名。

• Its domestic standing rests on the Double First-Class discipline of chemical engineering and technology and on earlier membership of the 211 Project and the 985 advantage discipline innovation platform.学校的国内地位建立在「双一流」建设学科化学工程与技术之上，并可上溯至此前的「211 工程」与「985 优势学科创新平台」。

• Ten of its subject areas rank in the global top one per cent by ESI and three of them in the top one per mille, a widely used measure of research concentration.学校 10 个学科领域进入 ESI 全球前 1%，其中 3 个进入前 1‰，这是衡量科研集中度的常用指标。

• OpenAlex records 55,126 works and 6,125,897 citations for the university, the machine-counted output behind its bibliometric profile.OpenAlex 记录该校成果数为 55,126 项、被引次数为 6,125,897 次，构成其文献计量画像的机器统计基础。

• No Nobel Prize, Turing Award or Fields Medal laureate is recorded among the university's faculty or alumni in the available material, so its reputation rests on its chemical engineering disciplines and its trained technical workforce.在现有材料中，该校教师与校友名录未记载诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其声誉因而建立在化工主干学科与其培养的技术人才之上。

Student life

• The university's motto is 宏德博学、化育天工, a couplet urging the cultivation of virtue and broad learning and the shaping of nature's work, and it is a defining mark of the institution.学校校训为「宏德博学、化育天工」，勉励师生宏扬德行、博学多闻，并以化工之学化育天工，是学校最具辨识度的精神标记。

• Its school spirit is expressed as 团结奉献、艰苦奋斗、务实力行、博学创新, a four-part formulation the university uses in its own accounts.学校校风表述为「团结奉献、艰苦奋斗、务实力行、博学创新」，这套四字短语见于校方自身的叙述。

• The university emblem takes the form of a traditional Chinese bronze bell, inscribed on its face with the first half of the motto and engraved at the base with the founding year 1958.学校标志以中国传统铜钟为主体，钟面镌刻校训上半句，钟底刻有建校年份「1958」。

• The university's anniversary day falls on 15 September, the date fixed in its charter for the annual celebration rather than the day of any founding decree.学校校庆日为 9 月 15 日，这是学校章程确定的年度庆祝日期，而非某一道创校文件颁布之日。

• The three campus sculptures form a small visual history, the Mao statue, the Hou Debang statue placed after his family donated his book collection to the university library, and the Light of the Alma Mater raised for the 45th anniversary.校内三座雕塑构成一段小型视觉校史：毛泽东雕像、因侯德榜家人将其藏书捐给学校图书馆而立起的侯德榜雕像，以及纪念建校 45 周年所立的「母校之光」。

• Engineering competitions are central to student culture, and the university's teams take part in national chemical engineering design contests and the national Challenge Cup of extracurricular academic works.工程竞赛是学生文化的核心，学校团队参加全国化工设计竞赛以及全国「挑战杯」课外学术科技作品竞赛。

• The Confucius Institute at Miskolc gives students a standing channel for Chinese-language teaching and cultural exchange in Hungary.米什科尔茨孔子学院为学生提供了在匈牙利开展中文教学与文化交流的常设渠道。

• The Changping campus supplies residential living for 18,300 students and 1,500 staff, with canteens, supermarkets, a bank, postal services and a campus clinic organised around the teaching buildings.昌平校区为 18,300 名学生与 1,500 名教职员工提供住宿生活，配套食堂、超市、银行、邮政与校医院等设施，围绕教学楼群布局。

Notable people

• Li Su served as the institute's first president from 1958 to 1960 and directed its founding years as it moved from a ministry plan to an operating school.李苏自 1958 年至 1960 年担任学院首任院长，主持了学校从部委筹办到正式办学的初创阶段。

• Ma Fangting led the school as both party secretary and president during the 1960s and again from 1979, steering it through the mergers and disruptions of that era.马芳庭在 20 世纪 60 年代及 1979 年后两度出任学校党委书记与院长，主持了学校在这一时期的合并与恢复。

• Zhou Xiaochuan, who studied at the Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology between 1972 and 1975, later served as governor of the People's Bank of China from 2002 to 2018.周小川于 1972 年至 1975 年在北京化工学院学习，其后于 2002 年至 2018 年出任中国人民银行行长。

• He Guoqiang, who graduated from the institute in 1966, rose to the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2007, one of the university's most senior political alumni.贺国强 1966 年毕业于该校，2007 年进入中共中央政治局常务委员会，是学校最具分量的政界校友之一。

• Cheng Wei, a graduate of the university, founded the ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing, now one of China's largest online transport platforms.该校毕业生程维创办了网约车企业滴滴出行，该公司现为中国规模最大的在线出行平台之一。

• Chen Zilin, another alumnus, founded the unmanned convenience-store chain Binguo Box, and Xu Dandan founded the recruitment platform Lagou.另一名校友陈子林创办了无人便利店连锁缤果盒子，许单单则创办了招聘平台拉勾网。

• Hou Debang (1890-1974), a pioneer of China's modern chemical industry and of the Hou process for soda production, is commemorated by the university through its Hou Debang Engineer College and a campus statue.侯德榜（1890—1974）是中国现代化学工业的先驱、侯氏制碱法的创立者，学校以其名设立侯德榜工程师学院并立有雕像纪念。

• Tan Tianwei, president of the university and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering elected in 2011, works on bioengineering and industrial biotechnology and leads the institution's present strategy.谭天伟为学校校长、2011 年当选的中国工程院院士，主要从事生物工程与工业生物技术研究，主持学校当前的发展战略。

• Duan Xue, a professor at the university and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences elected in 2007, works on intercalated layered functional materials.段雪为该校教授、2007 年当选的中国科学院院士，主要从事插层结构功能材料研究。

• Zhang Liqun, a vice-president of the university and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, researches rubber and elastomer materials and their industrial application.张立群为学校副校长、中国工程院院士，从事橡胶与弹性体材料及其工业应用研究。

• Gao Jinji, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering on the faculty, is known for research on mechanical failure diagnosis and equipment health monitoring.在校任教的高金吉为中国工程院院士，以机械故障诊断与装备健康监测研究著称。