The China University of Petroleum-Beijing (CUPB) is the current chairing university of WEUN. Founded in 1953, it owns two campuses in Changping District of Beijing with about 470,000 m2, and in Karamay of Xinjiang covering an area of 4,700,000 m2. CUPB is one of the key national universities directly under the administration of the China’s Ministry of Education, having distinctive features of “petroleum” and developing a multidisciplinary system, which centers on engineering disciplines and covers science, engineering, art, management, etc. The university is listed in the national “211 Project” in 1997 and the “Double First-Class” university project in 2017. According to the latest ESI 2018 data (May, 2018), CUPB possesses 4 disciplines which rank the top 1% of ESI: Chemistry, Engineering, Materials Science and Geosciences.
Local Contact: Dr. Lu Ji
(Edited by Lu Ji)
