China University of Petroleum, Beijing

China University of Petroleum (Beijing), known in Chinese as 中国石油大学（北京）and commonly abbreviated CUPB, is a public university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, founded in 1953 as the Beijing Petroleum Institute and regarded as the first institution of higher petroleum education in the People's Republic of China.中国石油大学（北京）（英文 China University of Petroleum (Beijing)，缩写 CUPB）是中华人民共和国教育部直属的公立高校，前身北京石油学院创办于 1953 年，被视为新中国第一所石油高等学府。

The university operates as one institution in two places, with its main campus at the southern foot of the Jundu Mountains in the Changping district of Beijing and a second campus, opened in 2015, in the oil city of Karamay in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.学校实行一校两地办学：北京校本部坐落在昌平区军都山南麓，另一校区于 2015 年启用，位于新疆维吾尔自治区被誉为「石油之城」的克拉玛依市。

It enrols roughly 9,300 full-time undergraduates, 8,000 master's students and 2,000 doctoral students on the Beijing campus, with about 9,000 more undergraduates and 1,000 master's students at Karamay, and it is placed at 600th in the QS World University Rankings 2027.北京校本部有全日制本科生约 9,300 人、硕士生约 8,000 人、博士生约 2,000 人；克拉玛依校区另有本科生约 9,000 人与硕士生约 1,000 人。学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 600 位。

History

• The idea of a petroleum college took shape at the first national conference on higher engineering institutions held in Beijing in November 1951, when representatives of the fuel industry ministry argued that China needed its own higher petroleum schools rather than relying on technical secondary training alone.创办石油学院的设想成形于 1951 年 11 月在北京召开的第一次全国高等工业院校会议，当时燃料工业部代表主张中国需要自己的石油高等学府，而不能只靠中等技术培训。

• During 1952 the country's petroleum teaching resources were gathered together, and on 24 September 1952 the Petroleum Engineering Department of Tsinghua University was created from the petroleum groups of Tsinghua, Tianjin University, Peking University and Yenching University.1952 年，全国石油教学资源开始集中：9 月 24 日，以清华大学、天津大学、北京大学与燕京大学的石油相关专业为基础，组建了清华大学石油工程系。

• In November 1952 the Cultural and Education Committee of the Government Administration Council formally approved the establishment of the Beijing Petroleum Institute, and the 1953 national restructuring plan confirmed that Tsinghua's petroleum engineering department should become an independent institute.1952 年 11 月，政务院文化教育委员会正式批准建立北京石油学院；1953 年的全国院系调整计划进一步明确「清华大学石油工程系独立为北京石油学院」。

• The new institute was built on open farmland in the Jiujianfang area of the Haidian district, east of Tsinghua University, in a belt of single-discipline colleges that became known as the Eight Colleges of Beijing.新学院校址选在海淀区九间房村一带的开阔农田上，位于清华大学以东，此后这里逐渐形成被称作北京「八大学院」的单科性高校带。

• More than a thousand students and staff gathered on 1 October 1953 for the institute's first opening ceremony, held on a campus that was still part construction site and part fields, and that date has since served as the university's anniversary day.1953 年 10 月 1 日，一千余名师生在半是工地半是田野的校园里举行了北京石油学院历史上第一次开学典礼，这一天此后被定为学校的校庆日。

• The institute's teaching staff was assembled from the petroleum department of Tsinghua, part of the chemical engineering faculty of Dalian Institute of Technology, groups from Northwestern Institute of Technology, and staff and students drawn from Beijing Institute of Geology, Beijing Institute of Finance and Economics and Renmin University of China.建校师资来自清华大学石油系、大连工学院化工系部分师生、西北工学院相关专业，以及北京地质学院、北京财经学院与中国人民大学调入的部分师生与干部。

• By 1960 the institute had grown to twenty-one specialities with 5,686 students and 1,705 staff, including 548 teachers, sixty-three laboratories and a library of 250,000 volumes.到 1960 年，学院已设有 21 个专业，在校生 5,686 人、教职工 1,705 人（含教师 548 人），有实验室 63 个、图书资料 25 万册。

• On 22 October 1960 the central government raised the number of national key universities to sixty-four, and the Beijing Petroleum Institute entered that list in the second batch of forty-four, making it a nationally designated key institution.1960 年 10 月 22 日，中央把全国重点高校增加到 64 所，北京石油学院作为第二批 44 所之一跻身其中，成为全国重点大学。

• Following the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations, the ministry of the petroleum industry ordered the institute to relocate to Dongying in Shandong province on 21 October 1969, and between 27 October and 7 November more than 4,200 people were moved in three special trains.中苏关系恶化后，石油部军管会于 1969 年 10 月 21 日下令学院迁往山东东营；10 月 27 日至 11 月 7 日，四千二百余人分三批乘专列迁出。

• The relocation weakened the institution badly, cutting teaching fixed assets from eight million yuan to four million, books from 300,000 to 200,000 volumes, and causing the loss of more than 300 teachers.迁校使学校元气大伤：教学固定资产由 800 万元降至 400 万元，图书由 30 万册减至 20 万册，教师流失 300 余人。

• On 19 March 1970 the Shandong revolutionary committee and the military control committee of the petroleum ministry issued a joint document renaming the Beijing Petroleum Institute the East China Petroleum Institute, under the leadership of Shandong province.1970 年 3 月 19 日，山东省革命委员会与石油部军管会联合发文，将北京石油学院改名为华东石油学院，划归山东省领导。

• When the national college entrance examination was restored in 1977, the East China Petroleum Institute admitted 1,665 undergraduates and twenty graduate students across the classes of 1977 and 1978, and in February 1978 it was again named a national key university among eighty-eight institutions.1977 年恢复高考后，华东石油学院在 77 级与 78 级中招收本科生 1,665 人、研究生 20 人；1978 年 2 月又被列入全国 88 所重点高校。

• On 22 June 1981 the petroleum ministry and the education ministry jointly announced the creation of the Beijing Graduate Department of the East China Petroleum Institute, based at the former Beijing Petroleum Institute site.1981 年 6 月 22 日，石油部与教育部联合发文，在原北京石油学院校址成立华东石油学院北京研究生部。

• In July 1984 the state planning commission and the Beijing construction commission approved a site in Changping for the Beijing graduate school, and the growth of that body led the institution towards its two-place structure.1984 年 7 月，国家计委与北京市建委批准在昌平选址建设北京研究生部，研究生部的发展使学校逐步形成两地办学格局。

• In 1988 the state education commission approved the formation of the Petroleum University on the basis of the East China Petroleum Institute and the Beijing Graduate Department, running in Shandong and Beijing at the same time.1988 年，国家教育委员会批准在华东石油学院与北京研究生部基础上组建石油大学，实行山东、北京两地办学。

• The Beijing branch resumed undergraduate admissions in 1989, and by 1992 the Beijing and East China campuses had become independent from each other in finance, personnel and administration.1989 年石油大学（北京）恢复招收本科生；到 1992 年，北京与华东两校区在经费、人事与行政上已各自独立。

• On 26 November 1997 the state planning commission approved the Petroleum University as a project university of the 211 Project, placing it among the first institutions built under that national programme.1997 年 11 月 26 日，国家计委批准石油大学作为「211 工程」项目院校建设，成为首批进入该工程的院校之一。

• On 12 February 2000 the university was transferred from the China National Petroleum Corporation to the Ministry of Education, becoming a university directly under the ministry, and on 26 May 2000 it was allowed to pilot its own graduate school.2000 年 2 月 12 日，学校从中国石油天然气集团公司整体划转教育部管理，成为教育部直属高校；5 月 26 日获准试办研究生院。

• In January 2005 the institution was renamed China University of Petroleum, and the Beijing branch accordingly became China University of Petroleum (Beijing), the name it carries today.2005 年 1 月，学校更名为中国石油大学，石油大学（北京）相应改称中国石油大学（北京），沿用至今。

• In 2006 the university passed a national assessment of undergraduate teaching with a top grade and its oil and gas platform entered the state's 985 Project advantage discipline innovation platform, while 2017 brought entry into the national Double First-Class construction.2006 年学校以优秀成绩通过教育部本科教学工作水平评估，「油气资源勘探开发与转化创新平台」进入国家 985 工程优势学科创新平台；2017 年又进入国家「双一流」建设高校行列。

• The Karamay campus in Xinjiang was approved in October 2015 and unveiled on 10 December 2015, opening a second teaching site intended to serve the energy strategy and the Belt and Road initiative.新疆克拉玛依校区于 2015 年 10 月获批、12 月 10 日正式揭牌，作为服务能源战略与「一带一路」建设的第二个办学地点。

• On 18 January 2018 the East Campus at 15 Nanhuan Road in Changping opened, the Artificial Intelligence College was founded in December of the same year, and in September the World Energy University Alliance was inaugurated at the university.2018 年 1 月 18 日昌平区南环路 15 号的东校区启用，同年 12 月人工智能学院成立，9 月世界能源大学联盟在学校揭牌成立。

• In July 2020 and again in May 2023 Xi Jinping wrote back to graduates of the Karamay campus and to Central Asian students, replies the university cites as recognition of its strategy of serving national needs.2020 年 7 月与 2023 年 5 月，习近平先后给克拉玛依校区毕业生和中亚留学生回信，校方把这两封回信视为对其服务国家战略办学方向的肯定。

Academics

• The university comprises fifteen colleges and one directly affiliated research institute, offering thirty-one undergraduate admissions programmes that span the whole oil and gas industry chain.学校现设 15 个学院与 1 个直属研究院，设有 31 个本科招生专业，学科专业覆盖油气产业的全链条。

• Its disciplines range from oil and gas science and engineering through oil and gas conversion science and engineering to emerging fields such as carbon-neutral engineering, hydrogen energy, energy storage and oil and gas artificial intelligence.学科范围从油气科学与工程、油气转化科学与工程，延伸到碳中和工程与技术、氢能、储能与油气人工智能等新兴领域。

• The university carries two national Double First-Class disciplines, geological resources and geological engineering and oil and gas engineering, together with two Beijing high-precision disciplines.学校拥有 2 个国家「双一流」建设学科——地质资源与地质工程、石油与天然气工程，另有 2 个北京市高精尖学科。

• In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, geological resources and geological engineering and oil and gas engineering both received the top A+ grade, chemical engineering and technology received A-minus, and six disciplines entered the national top ten.在教育部第四轮学科评估中，地质资源与地质工程、石油与天然气工程获评 A+，化学工程与技术获评 A-，6 个学科进入全国前十。

• With the latest evaluation the university counts four A-class disciplines, adding safety science and engineering to geological resources and geological engineering, oil and gas engineering and chemical engineering and technology.最新一轮学科评估中，学校 A 类学科增至 4 个，在地质资源与地质工程、石油与天然气工程、化学工程与技术之外新增安全科学与工程。

• Nine subject areas of the university rank in the global top one per cent by ESI, covering engineering, chemistry, geosciences, materials science, computer science, environment and ecology, social sciences general, mathematics and physics.学校有 9 个学科领域进入 ESI 全球前 1%，涵盖工程学、化学、地球科学、材料科学、计算机科学、环境/生态学、社会科学总论、数学与物理学。

• Four of those areas, engineering, chemistry, geosciences and materials science, rank in the global top one per mille, placing the university among the most cited institutions in those fields.其中工程学、化学、地球科学、材料科学 4 个领域进入全球前 1‰，使学校在这些领域位居高被引机构之列。

• The Beijing campus employs more than 1,500 staff, among them over 1,100 full-time teachers of whom sixty-eight per cent hold senior titles and eighty-five per cent hold doctoral degrees.北京校本部有教职工 1,500 余人，其中专任教师 1,100 余人，专任教师中 68% 具有高级职称、85% 具有博士学位。

• Five academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering sit on the faculty, supported by sixty-two national leading talents and sixty-eight national young talents.师资队伍以 5 名两院院士为中坚，另有国家级领军人才 62 人次、国家级青年人才 68 人次。

• The Karamay campus employs more than 700 staff with over 500 full-time teachers, of whom fifty-five per cent hold senior titles and sixty per cent hold doctoral degrees.克拉玛依校区有教职工 700 余人、专任教师 500 余人，专任教师中 55% 具有高级职称、60% 具有博士学位。

• The university runs three national key laboratories, for oil and gas resources and engineering, for heavy oil, and for deep geothermal enrichment mechanisms and efficient development.学校建有 3 个全国重点实验室：油气资源与工程、重质油、深层地热富集机理与高效开发。

• It takes part in thirteen national science and technology innovation platforms and maintains twenty-eight provincial and ministerial platforms together with twenty branch laboratories of the China National Petroleum Corporation.学校参与建设 13 个国家级科技创新平台，并建有 28 个省部级科技创新平台以及 20 个中国石油重点实验室分室。

• The university publishes Petroleum Science and the Journal of Palaeogeography, both of which have been selected as leading or key national journals and repeatedly cited among China's most internationally influential academic journals.学校主办《Petroleum Science》与《Journal of Palaeogeography》，两者分别入选国家领军期刊和重点期刊，并连续入选中国最具国际影响力学术期刊。

• Twenty-one of its programmes are national first-class undergraduate major construction points and twenty are provincial ones, supported by five national engineering practice education centres.学校有 21 个国家级一流本科专业建设点与 20 个省部级一流本科专业建设点，并建有 5 个国家级工程实践教育中心。

• It was among the first universities chosen for comprehensive reform of professional degree postgraduate education and among the first for the national engineering master's and doctoral training reform, and it hosts China's first overseas school of excellence in engineering.学校是国家首批专业学位研究生教育综合改革试点高校、首批国家工程硕博士培养改革专项试点高校，并建有中国在海外第一家卓越工程师学院。

Campus

• The main campus lies at the southern foot of the Jundu Mountains in the Changping district of Beijing and covers more than 700 mu, or roughly forty-seven hectares, of land.主校区位于北京市昌平区军都山南麓，占地 700 余亩，约合 47 公顷。

• The Karamay campus in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers more than 7,000 mu, about 467 hectares, and was planned on a site in the city's southern new district with investment of 5.3 billion yuan.位于新疆维吾尔自治区的克拉玛依校区占地 7,000 余亩（约 467 公顷），校区位于该市城南新区，计划投资 53 亿元人民币。

• The Karamay campus was planned with a total floor area of 645,000 square metres, fifty construction projects and more than ninety individual buildings, including laboratories and workshop-style training facilities.克拉玛依校区规划总建筑面积 64.5 万平方米、建设项目 50 项、建筑单体 90 余栋，其中包括实验室与实训车间。

• A second Beijing site, the East Campus at 15 Nanhuan Road in Changping, opened in January 2018 to relieve pressure on the original main campus.北京的另一处校址——位于昌平区南环路 15 号的东校区于 2018 年 1 月启用，用以缓解原主校区的空间压力。

• The original Beijing campus stands in the Haidian educational belt east of Tsinghua University, where the university once formed part of the cluster known as the Eight Colleges of Beijing.北京原校本部地处清华大学以东的海淀文教区，学校当年即属于被称为北京「八大学院」的高校群。

• The Karamay campus is organised into the Petroleum College, the Engineering College and the College of Arts and Sciences, with seven administrative offices handling its daily management.克拉玛依校区下设石油学院、工学院与文理学院三个教学科研机构，并设七个管理机构负责日常运行。

• Teaching facilities at Karamay include production-oriented training equipment matched to real oilfield processes, basic and specialised laboratories, and an electronic library and campus network.克拉玛依校区的教学设施包括按真实生产工艺配置的生产性实训设备、基础实验室与专业实验室，以及电子图书系统与校园网络。

• Because the two campuses sit in Beijing and in Xinjiang, they are administered under unified planning while operating independently, and they admit students separately at examination.由于两校区分别位于北京与新疆，学校对其统一规划、分别运行，两校区独立招生，录取时互不调剂。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place China University of Petroleum (Beijing) at 600th in the world, the position under which this entry is catalogued.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将中国石油大学（北京）列为世界第 600 位，本条目即按此名次收录。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 put the university in the 501-550 band, a slight rise from the 501-600 band recorded for the previous year.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把该校列入第 501-550 位，较上一年度的第 501-600 位略有上升。

• The US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 does not place the university inside its main list, so it carries no rank in that table for the period.2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名未将中国石油大学（北京）列入主榜，因此该校在该榜期内没有名次。

• The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2026 places the university in the 401-500 band of its main list, its strongest 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 401-500 位，这是它在四项主流全球榜单中的最好表现。

• Its national standing rests on two Double First-Class disciplines, geological resources and geological engineering and oil and gas engineering, 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两个「双一流」建设学科——地质资源与地质工程与石油与天然气工程之上，并可上溯至此前的「211 工程」与 985 优势学科创新平台。

• In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation its two petroleum disciplines took the top A+ grade, and the university's count of A+ disciplines ranked twenty-second nationally on a tied basis.第四轮学科评估中，学校两个石油主干学科获评 A+，A+ 学科数量在全国高校中并列第 22 位。

• Nine subject areas rank in the global top one per cent by ESI and four of them in the top one per mille, a widely cited measure of research concentration in energy-related science.9 个学科领域进入 ESI 全球前 1%，其中 4 个进入前 1‰，这一指标常被用来衡量学校在能源相关学科上的科研集中度。

• OpenAlex records 54,655 works and 2,980,220 citations for the university, the machine-counted output behind its bibliometric profile.OpenAlex 记录该校的成果数为 54,655 项、被引次数为 2,980,220 次，这组机器统计构成其文献计量画像的基础。

• Its two journals, Petroleum Science and the Journal of Palaeogeography, have been selected among China's leading and key academic journals, reinforcing the university's position in petroleum science publishing.其主办的《Petroleum Science》与《Journal of Palaeogeography》分别入选国家领军期刊与重点期刊，巩固了学校在石油科学出版领域的地位。

• Since its founding the university has trained more than 300,000 specialists and is nicknamed the cradle of petroleum talent, one of the strongest claims on its reputation.建校以来，学校为国家培养了三十余万名专门人才，被誉为「石油人才的摇篮」，这是其声誉中最有力的说法之一。

• 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 petroleum disciplines and its trained 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，其声誉因而建立在石油主干学科与所培养的专业人才之上。

Student life

• The university's motto is 厚积薄发、开物成务, a phrase urging deep accumulation before measured release and the mastery of practical affairs, and it is displayed as a defining mark of the institution.学校的校训是「厚积薄发、开物成务」，意为长期积累而后适度施展、通晓事理而成就实务，被视为学校最具辨识度的精神标记。

• Its school song is 我为祖国献石油, a song about dedicating oil to the motherland, and the university teaches it as part of its cultural education from the earliest years.校歌是《我为祖国献石油》，一首表达为国献油的歌曲，学校自低年级起即把它作为文化育人内容教授。

• The university's anniversary day falls on 1 October, the date of the first opening ceremony in 1953 rather than a formal founding decree.学校校庆日为 10 月 1 日，取自 1953 年第一次开学典礼之日，而非某一道正式文件颁布之日。

• Its stated school spirit is 实事求是、艰苦奋斗 and its style of study is 勤奋、严谨、求实、创新, the four-word formulations the university uses in its own accounts.学校校风为「实事求是、艰苦奋斗」，学风为「勤奋、严谨、求实、创新」，这些四字表述见于校方自身的叙述。

• The ethos of the Daqing oilfield and the Iron Man spirit is woven throughout student education, an industrial tradition the university presents as central to its identity.大庆精神与铁人精神被贯穿于学生教育全过程，学校把这一工业传统视为自身身份的核心部分。

• The university founded the World Energy University Alliance, now joined by thirty-two energy universities from seventeen countries across five continents, and it chairs the youth working group of the Belt and Road energy partnership.学校倡议并发起世界能源大学联盟，现由五大洲 17 个国家的 32 所能源领域高校参与，并担任「一带一路」能源合作伙伴关系合作网络青年工作组组长单位。

• Student engineering competitions, led by the China Petroleum Engineering Design Competition, form an energy-sector contest series the university describes as the first of its kind in oil and gas.由中国石油工程设计大赛领衔的一系列学生工程竞赛，构成学校所描述的油气领域首创的能源学科竞赛群。

• The Karamay campus gives students in Xinjiang a residential teaching community organised around petroleum, engineering and arts and sciences, with its own student services and campus network.克拉玛依校区为新疆的学生提供一个围绕石油、工程与文理学科组织的住宿制教学社区，配有独立的公共服务与校园网络。

Notable people

• Wu Yi, who studied at the Beijing Petroleum Institute, later served as Vice Premier of the State Council and as Minister of Health, one of the university's most senior political alumni.曾在石油学院就读的吴仪，其后出任国务院副总理与卫生部部长，是该校最具分量的政界校友之一。

• Wang Tao, a graduate of the institution, went on to serve as Minister of the Petroleum Industry and later as general manager of the China National Petroleum Corporation.该校毕业生王涛其后出任石油工业部部长，并担任中国石油天然气总公司总经理。

• Li Yizhong, educated at the university, became Minister of Industry and Information Technology and later a vice-chairman of the economic committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.就读于该校的李毅中出任工业和信息化部部长，后任全国政协经济委员会副主任。

• Wei Liucheng, an alumnus, served as Party Secretary of Hainan province and later as a member of the financial and economic committee of the National People's Congress.校友卫留成担任过中共海南省委书记，后任全国人大财经委员会副主任委员。

• Wang Yilin, a graduate of the university, was chairman of the China National Petroleum Corporation and its party leadership group.该校毕业生王宜林曾任中国石油天然气集团公司董事长、党组书记。

• Zhou Jiping, another alumnus, served as general manager of the China National Petroleum Corporation, continuing the university's long line of energy-sector leaders.同为校友的周吉平曾任中国石油天然气集团公司总经理，延续了学校在能源行业输送领军人物的传统。

• Cao Yaofeng, an alumnus, became a vice-general manager of the China Petrochemical Corporation, while Yang Hua rose to general manager of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation.校友曹耀峰出任中国石油化工集团公司副总经理，杨华则升任中国海洋石油总公司总经理。

• Li Guoliang, a graduate of the institution, served as Vice Governor of Hainan province, extending the university's record of alumni in provincial government.该校毕业生李国梁担任海南省副省长，延续了学校校友进入省级政府的记录。

• Jin Yan became the university's president in January 2024, after serving as vice-president and as executive vice-dean of its graduate school, and he works on oil and gas well engineering.金衍于 2024 年 1 月出任校长，此前历任副校长与研究生院常务副院长，主要从事油气井工程领域的教学与科研。

• Wang Tongqi was appointed Party Secretary of the university in May 2023, having been named to the post by the Party group of the Ministry of Education.王同奇 2023 年 5 月由教育部党组任命为学校党委书记。

• Among the university's early leaders is Yang Guanghua, a vice-president during the Dongying years who argued that the institution should first rebuild its research and teaching before considering any further move.学校早期领导中包括东营时期的副校长杨光华，他主张学校应先恢复科研与教学水平，再谈再次迁校。