1960 10, Petroleum University was identified as a national key university. From 65438 to 0969, the school moved to Dongying, Shandong Province, where Shengli Oilfield is located, and was renamed East China Petroleum Institute. 198 1 graduate department was established in the original campus of Beijing Petroleum Institute in June. 1988 The school was renamed Petroleum University, and 1989 resumed undergraduate enrollment for the whole country in Beijing. The school has gradually formed a pattern of running schools in Shandong and Beijing.
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1953 at the beginning of the founding of new China, the national economic construction was in urgent need of petroleum resources, and the development of petroleum industry was in urgent need of professionals. In this situation, Beijing Petroleum Institute, the first petroleum institution of higher learning in New China, was established on the basis of Tsinghua University Petroleum Engineering Department and was one of the eight famous universities in Beijing at that time.
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Baidu encyclopedia petroleum university