China University of Geosciences, Beijing, located in Beijing, China, is a national key University directly under the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and co-established with the Ministry of Natural Resources. It is one of the first batch of national “211 Project” and “985 Project Innovation Platform for Superior Disciplines “universities and world-class discipline construction universities. He has been selected into the Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program, 111 Program, Recipient institutions of Chinese Government Scholarship for Overseas Students, Government-sponsored Graduate Program of National Construction High-level University, New Engineering Research and Practice Program. It is a member of Beijing Alliance of Higher Education Universities. Signed member of Planetary Science Alliance of Chinese Universities; It is the cradle of cultivating high-level talents in Earth science and the base of geoscience research in China. It is a research-oriented university with geology, resources and environment as its main features.

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