Chongqing Three Gorges University (CTGU, ), established in 1956, is a national

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Wanzhou District Wanzhou District () is Chongqing's second most populated urban core area on the upper reaches of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in China. It is currently governed as a district of Chongqing Municipality, bordering Sichuan to the northwest ...

, Chongqing, at the heart of the

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areas on the

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. It presently has a total enrolment of 13,000 full-time domestic students and international students; and a staff of about 1,000, including about 300 professors and associate professors, about 400 Master's Degree or Doctor's Degree winners, and more than 60 external part-time Professors and international teachers. CTGU has 14 teaching faculties. It has more than 70 specialties for 3-year students and 4-year students, which cover eight disciplinary domains. It has prominent advantages in the teaching and research of the specialties of

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, ethnonymics, and occupies the leading position in China in some of the specialties and subjects (). CTGU has established wide cooperation and exchange relationship with many

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both at home and abroad, and has developed teachers/students exchange and academic exchange. In 2007, CTGU established collaboratively a

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External links

Chongqing Three Gorges University official website
1956 establishments in China Educational institutions established in 1956 Universities and colleges in Chongqing {{China-university-stub