Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

重庆邮电大学
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Former names	重庆邮电学院
Motto	修德 博学 求实 创新
Type	Public
Established	1950 (1950)
Principal	Gao Xinbo
Academic staff	more than 1,700
Students	nearly 24,000
Location	Chongqing , China
Campus	Urban, 3,800 acres (1,500 ha)
Website	www.cqupt.edu.cn

The Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (重庆邮电大学; CQUPT) is a municipal public university in Nan'an, Chongqing, China. It is affiliated with the Chongqing Municipal People's Government.

History

CQUPT was founded in 1950 along with the foundation of the People's Republic of China and the communist takeover of Chongqing. It was initially founded in the name of Chongqing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications. In 1965, it was entitled to have postgraduate programs as one of the first 10 colleges that had the right to have such programs in the then Sichuan Province (Chongqing separated from Sichuan province as a Municipality in 1997).

In 2000, under the university system reform in China, the university became co-governed and co-financed by the Central Government with the Chongqing municipal government. In 2006, CQUPT contracted with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China to become one of the universities supported by the central government ministry and the municipality government.

External links

• CQUPT website (in English)
• CQUPT website (in Chinese)
• Introduction of CQUPT (in Chinese)
• Research platforms in CQUPT (in Chinese)
• Virtual Campus
• CQUPT BBS