On October 22, 2015, the ministry of education approved the establishment of China University of petroleum-Beijing at karamay (hereinafter referred to as karamay campus). On December 10, the karamay campus was officially inaugurated, which is the first 211 university directly under the ministry of education outside xinjiang to be established in xinjiang. China university of petroleum (Beijing) is a national key university under the direct administration of the ministry of education. Its predecessor was the department of petroleum and chemical engineering of tsinghua university. It gathered some teachers from tianjin university, Peking University and other universities. The university is a national key university under the direct administration of the ministry of education, with distinctive characteristics of petroleum, a focus on engineering and a coordinated development of multiple disciplines. It is one of the universities with graduate schools. In 1997, the university was among the first batch of universities to be included in the "211 project". In 2006, it became a national "advantageous discipline innovation platform" project construction university. On April 25, 2015, Chen da 'en, vice President of China university of petroleum (Beijing), led a delegation from the school's educational congress to karamay city for a field study on the establishment of karamay campus in cooperation with the city. The delegation inspected the student canteen, student apartment, teaching building, employee training apartment and training center of karamay campus successively, visited the students of excellent engineer class who are doing graduation design in the campus, and inquired about the students' life and study in karamay in detail. Vice President Chen daen said that his visit in karamay made him deeply understand the strong desire of the municipal government and the people of karamay city to run a high starting point, high standard and high quality undergraduate college, and they have made great efforts for this over the years. The members of the educational congress spoke highly of the construction of karamay campus, and believed that the construction of karamay campus has basically reached all the standards and conditions for running a school. On July 22, 2015, xinjiang karamay city and China university of petroleum (Beijing) signed a letter of intent on establishing the karamay campus of China university of petroleum (Beijing). On December 10th, 2015, the China university of petroleum (Beijing) karamay campus opening ceremony was held in urumqi, xinjiang uygur autonomous region party committee, vice chairman of the committee and autonomous region: arken vomit, omar niyaz, ministry of education, national education department director Mao Li, full sur, China university of petroleum (Beijing) the principal ticket bin, kelamayi municipal party committee, municipal government and other leaders, as well as from autonomous region related departments, the central enterprises in xinjiang, the xinjiang 15 colleges and universities, including more than 100 people, witness history of karamay landmark good thing, the big event. The establishment of this school is not only the first undergraduate university in karamay city, but also the first 211 universities directly under the ministry of education of xinjiang outside xinjiang. Mr Elkann, vice President of party committee of xinjiang uygur autonomous region, autonomous regions, omar niyaz vomit in campus opening ceremony said, higher education, as a high-end and leading the cause of education, as an important force, promote economic and social development as the first productive force and science and technology talents first resources important juncture, its quality decides the development level and the talent of innovation creation ability, determines the realization science across, surpass the backwardness in xinjiang, and the synchronous build well-off society goal. In the face of the new stage in the new period, the silk road economic belt important historical opportunity of the construction of the core area, kelamayi campus must adhere to the socialist direction of running, the tradition inheritance, carry forward the China university of petroleum, based on xinjiang, facing west, services across the country, radiation of central Asia, play to regional advantages, accelerate the construction of campus, strive to build the school characteristic, subject obvious advantages, at the university of petroleum chemical in peripheral influential, be applied talents, especially minority in xinjiang important base of personnel training, the spirit of national unity education highland, northern xinjiang engine of growth, economic and social development in the forefront of Chinese culture to the west radiation.