China University of Petroleum (East China)

China University of Petroleum (East China) is a national key university under the Ministry of Education, based mainly in Qingdao, Shandong, and specialising in the science and engineering of oil and gas.中国石油大学（华东）是教育部直属的全国重点大学，主校区位于山东青岛，以石油与天然气的科学与工程为特色。

It descends from the Beijing Petroleum Institute founded in 1953, moved to the Shengli oilfield area at Dongying in 1969, took the name University of Petroleum in 1988 and has been a separate legal entity from the Beijing campus since 2005.学校源自 1953 年创办的北京石油学院，1969 年迁至胜利油田所在的东营，1988 年改称石油大学，2005 年起与北京校区成为两个独立法人实体。

The university sits in the 301-400 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, ranks 511th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global ranking, and appears in neither the QS World University Rankings 2027 nor the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.学校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 301-400 名区间，在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学排名中位列第 511 名，未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名，也未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。

History

• At the first national conference on higher engineering education in November 1951, delegates from the fuel industry ministry argued that China needed regular petroleum colleges as well as technical schools, the earliest proposal to create one.1951 年 11 月全国第一次高等工业院校会议在北京召开，燃料工业部主管石油工业的代表呼吁在办好石油中等技术学校之外建立正规高等石油院校，这是筹办石油学院的最早建议。
• On 24 September 1952 the petroleum groups of Tsinghua University's geology, mining and chemical engineering departments were combined with petroleum groups from Tianjin University, Peking University, Yenching University and the Dalian Institute of Technology into a petroleum engineering department at Tsinghua.1952 年 9 月 24 日，清华大学地质系、采矿系与化工系的石油组，汇合天津大学四个系的石油组以及北京大学化工系、燕京大学数学系的师生力量，组建了清华大学石油工程系。
• In November 1952 the Cultural and Educational Committee of the Government Administration Council formally approved the creation of the Beijing Petroleum Institute, and on 29 May 1953 its 180th meeting made Tsinghua's petroleum engineering department independent to form the new 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 5 月 29 日政务院第 180 次政务会议决定将清华大学石油工程系独立为北京石油学院。
• The campus was built on fields at Jiujianfang village in Haidian, east of Tsinghua University, among the eight single-discipline colleges that gave the district its name of the Eight Great Colleges.校址选在海淀区九间房村一带清华园以东的文教区，属于当时集中兴建、号称北京「八大学院」的单科性高等院校之一。
• More than a thousand teachers and students held the institute's first opening ceremony on 1 October 1953 on a site that was still half building site and half farmland, and that date became the university anniversary.1953 年 10 月 1 日，1000 多名师生员工在半是工地半是田野的校园里举行首次开学典礼，这一天后来被定为校庆日。
• The first cohort drew on Tsinghua's petroleum department, the liquid fuel group of the Dalian Institute of Technology, petroleum groups of the Northwestern Polytechnical Institute, students of the Beijing Geology Institute, and cadres from the Beijing Institute of Finance and Economics and Renmin University.首届师生来自清华大学石油系、大连工学院化工系液体燃料组、西北工学院采矿系与化工系石油组、北京地质学院，以及北京财经学院与中国人民大学的部分干部和教师。
• A Central Committee document of 22 October 1960 raised the number of national key universities to 64, placing the Beijing Petroleum Institute in the second batch of 44.1960 年 10 月 22 日，中共中央发文将全国重点高等学校增加到 64 所，北京石油学院成为第二批 44 所重点高校之一。
• By 1966 the institute had awarded more than 12,000 bachelor's degrees and 153 graduate degrees since 1953, and its staff numbered 1,548.自 1953 年至 1965 年，学院共培养本科毕业生 12000 余名、研究生 153 名，1966 年全院教职工总数为 1548 人。
• When it was designated a key university it taught 21 specialities to 5,686 students with 1,705 staff, 63 laboratories, 250,000 books and 135,000 square metres of buildings.批准为重点院校时，学校设置 21 个专业，在校生 5686 人，教职工 1705 人，有实验室 63 个、图书资料 25 万册、校舍面积 13.5 万平方米。
• Between March and May 1966 more than 2,000 teachers and students were sent to the Daqing and Shengli oilfields to build schools there, a prelude to the institute's own relocation.1966 年 3 月至 5 月，2000 多名师生员工分赴大庆与胜利油田建校，为随后的迁校埋下伏笔。
• On 21 October 1969, during the border tension with the Soviet Union, the military control commission of the petroleum ministry ordered the institute to move to Dongying in Shandong, and between 27 October and 7 November 4,200 people left Beijing on three special trains.1969 年中苏关系恶化，石油部军管会于 10 月 21 日下令学校迁往山东东营，10 月 27 日至 11 月 7 日 4200 名师生员工与家属分三批乘专列离京。
• The move cut teaching fixed assets from eight million to four million yuan, reduced the library from 300,000 to 200,000 volumes and drove away more than 300 teachers.迁校使教学固定资产由 800 万元减至 400 万元，图书由 30 万册减至 20 万册，教师流失 300 多人。
• On 19 March 1970 the Shandong Revolutionary Committee and the petroleum ministry renamed the institution Huadong Petroleum Institute, which began enrolling worker-peasant-soldier students in the second half of that year.1970 年 3 月 19 日，山东省革命委员会与石油部军管会决定将学校改名为华东石油学院，学院于当年下半年开始招收工农兵学员。
• When the national entrance examination was restored in 1977, the institute enrolled 1,665 undergraduates and 20 graduate students in March and October 1978.1977 年恢复高考后，华东石油学院于 1978 年 3 月与 10 月迎来 77 级、78 级共 1665 名本科生与 20 名研究生。
• In February 1978 the State Council again listed Huadong Petroleum Institute among 88 national key universities, and a request to return to Beijing was refused by the petroleum ministry.1978 年 2 月，国务院重新确定华东石油学院等 88 所高校为全国重点高校，学校希望迁回北京却被石油部拒绝。
• A Beijing graduate department was opened at the old campus on 22 June 1981, and in July 1984 a site at Changping was approved, creating the two-city structure that still shapes the institution.1981 年 6 月 22 日，学校在原北京石油学院校址成立北京研究生部，1984 年 7 月又获批在昌平选址建设，两地办学的格局由此形成。
• In 1988 the State Education Commission combined the Huadong institute and the Beijing graduate department into the University of Petroleum, with one part in Dongying and one in Beijing.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的基础上组建石油大学，实行山东与北京两地办学。
• Beijing resumed undergraduate teaching in 1989, East China won separate master's enrolment in 1990 and separate doctoral enrolment in 1995, and the two parts became financially and administratively independent in 1992.北京部分 1989 年恢复本科招生，华东部分 1990 年开始单列计划招收硕士生、1995 年开始单列招收博士生，两校自 1992 年起在经费、人事与行政上各自独立。
• The State Planning Commission approved the University of Petroleum for the 211 Project on 26 November 1997, among the first institutions in the programme.1997 年 11 月 26 日，国家计委批准石油大学进入 211 工程，成为首批建设的院校之一。
• On 12 February 2000 the university was transferred from the China National Petroleum Corporation to the Ministry of Education, and in May 2000 it was allowed to run a graduate school on a trial basis.2000 年 2 月 12 日，学校由中国石油天然气集团公司整体划转教育部管理，同年 5 月获批试办研究生院。
• In January 2005 the institution took its present name, China University of Petroleum, and in August 2005 the Ministry of Education and Shandong Province signed an agreement to co-build the East China campus.2005 年 1 月学校更名为中国石油大学，2005 年 8 月教育部与山东省人民政府签署共建中国石油大学（华东）的协议。
• Construction of the Qingdao campus was approved in August 2004, almost all full-time students moved to Huangdao in the summer of 2011, and the relocation was completed in 2012.青岛校区于 2004 年 8 月获教育部批准立项，2011 年夏几乎所有统招学生迁至黄岛，2012 年完成搬迁。
• In April 2014 the Ministry of Education signed a co-building agreement with five energy companies, and in January 2021 the university's independent Shengli College became the public Shandong Petrochemical University.2014 年 4 月，教育部与五家能源企业集团签署共建协议；2021 年 1 月，学校管理的独立学院胜利学院转设为公办的山东石油化工学院。

Academics

• Teaching is organised through 16 schools and departments, from geosciences, petroleum engineering and chemical engineering to mechanical and electrical engineering, storage and construction, materials, new energy, ocean and space information, control science, software, science, economics and law.学校设有 16 个教学学院（部），从地球科学与技术、石油工程、化学化工，到机电工程、储运与建筑工程、材料科学与工程、新能源、海洋与空间信息、控制科学、软件、理学、经济管理与文法。
• It offers 58 undergraduate programmes, 34 first-level master's programmes, 16 first-level doctoral programmes, six self-designed interdisciplinary doctoral programmes and 13 postdoctoral stations.学校开设 58 个本科招生专业，拥有 34 个硕士学位授权一级学科、16 个博士学位授权一级学科、6 个自主设置交叉学科博士点与 13 个博士后流动站。
• Five disciplines hold national key status, namely mineral prospecting and exploration, oil and gas well engineering, oil and gas field development engineering, chemical technology, and oil and gas storage and transportation engineering.矿产普查与勘探、油气井工程、油气田开发工程、化学工艺、油气储运工程 5 个学科为国家重点学科。
• Geological resources and geological engineering and oil and gas engineering were both selected for the national Double First-Class construction plan, and two further disciplines are national key disciplines under cultivation.地质资源与地质工程、石油与天然气工程 2 个一级学科入选国家双一流建设计划，另有地球探测与信息技术、工业催化 2 个国家重点培育学科。
• Nine fields rank in the top one percent of the Essential Science Indicators list, namely engineering, chemistry, materials science, geoscience, computer science, environment and ecology, social sciences, mathematics and physics, with four of them in the top one per thousand.工程学、化学、材料科学、地球科学、计算机科学、环境与生态学、社会科学总论、数学、物理学 9 个学科领域进入基本科学指标数据库全球前 1%，其中工程学、化学、地球科学、材料科学进入前 1‰。
• More than 50 national and provincial research platforms include the National Key Laboratory of Deep Oil and Gas, the National Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil, the National Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and a national engineering research centre for marine geophysical exploration equipment.学校建有深层油气全国重点实验室、重质油全国重点实验室、化学品安全全国重点实验室、海洋物探及勘探开发装备国家工程研究中心等 50 余个国家及省部级科研平台。
• The university employs 2,985 staff, including 1,734 full-time teachers, 1,247 professors and associate professors and 496 doctoral supervisors.学校有教职员工 2985 人，其中专任教师 1734 人、教授与副教授 1247 人、博士生导师 496 人。
• Its faculty includes one academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and one of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 28 national leading talents and 58 young national talents.教师队伍中有中国科学院院士 1 人、中国工程院院士 1 人、国家级领军人才 28 人次、国家级青年人才 58 人次。
• Teaching infrastructure includes four national experimental teaching demonstration centres, three national engineering practice education centres, three national virtual simulation centres and five virtual teaching and research offices of the Ministry of Education.学校建有国家级实验教学示范中心 4 个、国家级工程实践教育中心 3 个、国家级虚拟仿真实验教学中心 3 个、教育部虚拟教研室 5 个。
• Thirty-two undergraduate majors are national first-class majors and 64 courses are national first-class courses, reflecting the university's emphasis on petroleum engineering education.学校获批国家级一流本科专业 32 个、国家级一流课程 64 门，体现了其在石油工程教育上的长期积累。
• In 2010 it was one of 61 universities chosen for the first national Excellence in Engineer Education and Training programme and one of 32 ministry universities piloting comprehensive reform of professional degree education.2010 年，学校成为国家首批实施卓越工程师教育培养计划的 61 所试点高校之一，也是承担专业学位研究生教育综合改革试点的 32 家部属高校之一。
• Its Qingdao Software College was selected in 2021 for the first batch of national characteristic demonstrative software colleges, one of the newer directions alongside new energy and marine information.学校的青岛软件学院于 2021 年入选国家首批特色化示范性软件学院，与新能源、海洋信息等方向同为学校近年拓展的新领域。
• The university runs a graduate school approved in 2000, and its degree programmes cover every stage of the petroleum chain from exploration and drilling to refining, storage and transport.学校设有 2000 年获批的研究生院，其学科专业覆盖石油石化工业从勘探、钻井到炼制、储运的各个环节。
• Research agreements link it to more than 130 local governments and large enterprises, and it cooperates with over 250 universities and research bodies in 55 countries and regions.学校与国内 130 多家地方政府及大型企事业单位签署全面合作协议，并与 55 个国家和地区的 250 余所高等院校和学术机构建立合作交流关系。
• The university employs more than a hundred visiting, honorary and adjunct professors from industry and overseas institutions.学校聘请百余名著名专家与知名人士担任兼职教授、名誉教授与客座教授。
• Two of the national key laboratories, the National Key Laboratory of Deep Oil and Gas and the National Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil, are run directly by the university.深层油气全国重点实验室与重质油全国重点实验室这两个国家级平台均由学校直接建设运行。

Campus

• The university describes its estate as two campuses and one park: the Tangdaowan campus and the Guzhenkou campus in Qingdao, and the Dongying science and education park in Shandong.学校把办学空间概括为「两校区一园区」，即青岛唐岛湾校区、古镇口校区与东营科教园区。
• The whole estate covers more than 5,000 mu with over 1.7 million square metres of floor space, a substantial expansion on the 300 hectares recorded in earlier university profiles.学校总占地面积 5000 余亩，建筑面积 170 余万平方米，较早期校情资料所记的 300 公顷有明显扩展。
• The Qingdao campuses stand in the West Coast New Area, a national-level new area created in 2014, at 66 Changjiang Road in Huangdao District.青岛两校区位于 2014 年设立的国家级新区青岛西海岸新区，校址在黄岛区长江西路 66 号。
• The Dongying site lies in the Yellow River Delta, the oil city that grew around the Shengli oilfield, and now houses the continuing education and self-study examination colleges and research units.东营校址位于黄河三角洲的石油之城，周边即胜利油田，现主要用作继续教育学院、自考学院与科研机构的驻地。
• A sculpture called Creating the Sun stands on the Huangdao campus, one of two versions of the work that has become a symbol of the university.黄岛校区立有名为「创造太阳」的雕塑，该作品共有两座，已成为学校的标志性景观。
• The Qingdao campus was approved in 2004, received almost the whole full-time student body in 2011 and was completed in 2012, after which Dongying became a secondary base.青岛校区 2004 年获批建设，2011 年接纳几乎全部统招学生，2012 年完成建设，此后东营转为辅助基地。
• The university's registered address was moved to Qingdao in 2021, formally recognising the shift of its main operations from the inland oilfield city to the coast.2021 年学校注册地调整至青岛，正式确认办学主体由内陆油城转向海滨城市。
• Dongying retains the university's science and technology research institute and its science and education park, which support applied research and industry collaboration in the delta.东营仍保留学校的科学技术研究院与科教园区，支撑黄河三角洲地区的应用研究与产业合作。

Reputation

• China University of Petroleum (East China) is a Ministry of Education university built under the 211 Project, and it entered the Double First-Class construction list in both 2017 and 2022.中国石油大学（华东）是教育部直属、进入 211 工程建设的全国重点大学，并于 2017 年与 2022 年两次进入国家双一流建设高校行列。
• It is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education, five major energy corporations and the Shandong provincial government, and in 2018 the ministry and the province agreed to build it jointly as a priority.学校由教育部与五大能源企业集团公司、教育部与山东省人民政府共建，2018 年 12 月教育部与山东省又签署了重点共建协议。
• In 2026 it sits in the 301-400 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities, ranks 511th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global ranking, and is absent from both the QS ranking for 2027 and the Times Higher Education ranking for 2027.2026 年学校位列软科世界大学学术排名第 301-400 名区间，在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学排名中位列第 511 名，未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名与 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• Founded as New China's first higher petroleum school, it describes itself as the cradle of petroleum science and management talent.学校是新中国成立后创办的第一所石油高等学府，自称「石油科技、管理人才的摇篮」。
• The State Council named it a national advanced employment unit in 2004, and in 2011 it was one of 50 universities recognised for graduate employment experience.学校 2004 年被国务院授予全国就业先进工作单位称号，2011 年入选 50 所全国毕业生就业典型经验高校。
• Thirty-two members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering have graduated from the university, alongside a large cohort of industry leaders.学校校友中走出了 32 位两院院士，以及一大批石油石化行业的领军人物。
• Its petroleum disciplines are described by the university as leading the country, and five of them hold national key discipline status.学校称其石油主干学科总体水平处于国内领先地位，其中 5 个学科为国家重点学科。
• The university was recognised in 2019 as a national demonstration base for innovative talent training and in 2022 as a national base for innovation and entrepreneurship education.学校 2019 年入选国家创新人才培养示范基地，2022 年入选国家级创新创业教育实践基地。

Student life

• In 2026 the university enrolled more than 19,000 full-time undergraduates, more than 11,000 postgraduate students and over 800 international students.2026 年学校有全日制在校本科生 19000 余人、研究生 11000 余人、留学生 800 余人。
• It teaches 58 undergraduate majors, of which 32 are national first-class majors, and offers 64 national first-class courses.学校开设 58 个本科招生专业，其中 32 个为国家级一流本科专业，并建有 64 门国家级一流课程。
• Four national experimental teaching demonstration centres and three national engineering practice education centres support laboratory and field training for engineering students.4 个国家级实验教学示范中心与 3 个国家级工程实践教育中心，为工科学生的实验与现场训练提供支撑。
• The anniversary falls on 1 October, the date of the first opening ceremony in 1953, and is celebrated at the start of each academic year.校庆日为 10 月 1 日，即 1953 年首次开学典礼的日子，每年在新学年之初庆祝。
• Students in engineering programmes can enter the Excellence in Engineer Education and Training stream, which places them in industry practice positions with oil and energy companies.工科学生可进入卓越工程师教育培养计划，赴石油与能源企业接受产业实践训练。
• The university hosts students from 55 countries and regions and maintains exchange and joint training arrangements with more than 250 partner institutions abroad.学校接纳来自 55 个国家和地区的留学生，并与 250 余所海外合作院校开展交流与联合培养。
• Student teams compete in national innovation and entrepreneurship programmes, and the university's 2019 and 2022 national bases give them access to incubation and project funding.学生团队参与国家级创新创业项目，学校 2019 年与 2022 年获批的两个国家级基地为其提供孵化与项目资助。
• Alongside its 16 teaching schools the university runs Kui Cui College, the International Education College, a distance education college and a continuing education college.除 16 个教学学院（部）外，学校还设有荟萃学院、国际教育学院、远程教育学院与继续教育学院。

Notable people

• Wu Yi, a graduate of the university, served as a member of the Politburo and vice premier of the State Council.吴仪毕业于该校，曾任中共中央政治局委员与国务院副总理。
• Li Yizhong, another graduate, served as minister of industry and information technology.李毅中同样毕业于该校，曾任工业和信息化部部长。
• Wang Tao, a graduate of the Beijing Petroleum Institute, served as minister of the petroleum industry and general manager of the China National Petroleum Corporation.王涛毕业于北京石油学院，曾任石油工业部部长与中国石油天然气总公司总经理。
• Wang Yilin, a graduate, served as chairman of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation.王宜林毕业于该校，曾任中国海洋石油总公司董事长。
• Zhou Jiping, a graduate, served as general manager of the China National Petroleum Corporation.周吉平毕业于该校，曾任中国石油天然气集团公司总经理。
• Yang Hua, a graduate, served as general manager of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation.杨华毕业于该校，曾任中国海洋石油总公司总经理。
• Cao Yaofeng, a graduate, became a vice president of the China Petrochemical Corporation.曹耀峰毕业于该校，曾任中国石油化工集团公司副总经理。
• Huang Ming, a graduate, founded and chairs the Himin Solar group, one of China's largest solar water heater manufacturers.黄鸣毕业于该校，创办并任皇明太阳能集团董事长，该集团是中国大型太阳能热水器制造商之一。
• Wang Yan, a graduate, served as general manager of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation.王彦毕业于该校，曾任中国海洋石油总公司总经理。
• Zhang Dinghua, a graduate, served as vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and deputy party secretary of Inner Mongolia.张丁华毕业于该校，曾任中华全国总工会副主席与中共内蒙古自治区党委副书记。
• Liu Haiyan, a graduate, was vice mayor of Beijing and later chairman of Huaxia Bank.刘海燕毕业于该校，曾任北京市人民政府副市长与华夏银行董事长。