Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
| 重庆邮电大学 | |
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| Motto | 修德 博学 求实 创新 |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1950 |
| Principal | Li Yinguo (李银国) |
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Academic staff
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more than 1,600 |
| Students | nearly 20 thousand |
| Location |
Chongqing,  China
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| Campus | Urban, 630 acres |
| Nickname | 重邮 (chongyou) |
| Website | http://www.cqupt.edu.cn/ |
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (Simplified Chinese: 重庆邮电大学; abbreviation: CQUPT) is a public university located in China's fourth municipality: Chongqing, which focuses on the research and education in the field of information and communications and enjoys a nationwide reputation in the study of posts, telecommunications and information technology, especially for its research and commercialization in 3G mobile technologies, optical sciences and related digital research. It is one of the four Universities of Posts and Telecommunications in China and the only one of its kind in the Southwest China. The university enjoys a very good reputation in the ICT industry in China due to its high quality education and research and the large number of alumni working in the ICT industry. Due to its achievements and contributions in the field of Information and Communications, especially in the development of China's own digital communications systems, CQUPT is considered as the cradle of China's digital communications.
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 ten colleges which 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 Chinese Central Government together with Chongqing government. In 2006, CQUPT Constract with MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China) become one of the universities supported by Ministry and Province (Municipalities) government.
Currently, CQUPT has 15 schools and institutes with a new institute: the Chongqing International Institute of Semiconductor established in 2010.
A list of schools at CQUPT and the academic programs each offer can also be found at the webpage 'School Navigation' from CQUPT's official website.
CQUPT is the origin of the China's digital communications systems. In the very recent years, over 600 scientific projects of various levels in the ICT field have been done in the university and 80 of them were granted the "Scientific Research Achievement Awards" by the government. CQUPT is the only Chinese university participating in the development of China's own 3G standard: TD-SCDMA. The world's fist TD-SCDMA chip and mobile phone were also developed at CQUPT. The university also played a key role in the establishment of China's first national "EPA Communication Standard for Industrial Measurement and Control System", which was recognized by the IEC as international standard in the field of industrial automation. The university's spin-off company - Chongqing CYIT Communications Technologies Company (CYIT) is among the first companies doing research on TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE in China and is already a frontrunner in the field nowadays. The university's strength also lies in the areas such as computer science, automatic control technology, microtechnologies, and others, as one of the first academic institutions doing research in these fields in China.
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