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Qingdao University of Science and Technology is a university located in Qingdao, China. Location within China Qingdao listen (Simplified Chinese: 青岛; Traditional Chinese: 青島; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ching-tao; Postal System Pinyin: Tsingtao) is a port sub-provincial city in the Shandong province of China, a naval base, and a major industrial city located at the southern tip of the Shandong Peninsula...
Founded in 1950, it was formerly known as Qingdao Institute of Chemical Technology. It is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary university offering academic degrees in Engineering, Science, Business, Management, Humanities, Medicine, and Law. It has two campuses, the Sifang Campus and the East Campus, covering 1638 mu with school buildings of 410,000 square meters.
Qingdao is home to 38 ethnic minorities, albeit very insignificantly, with minority population only totalling around 10 thousand by 2000, 0.14% of the city's total population.
Qingdao is perhaps most famously known for the Tsingtao Brewery, which German settlers founded in 1903, and which produces Tsingtao beer, now the most famous beer in China and known worldwide.
The Qingdao Liuting International Airport, 36 kilometres away from city centre, is served by 13 domestic and international airlines, operating 58 routes of which 10 are international and regional.
Since 1984 and China's open-door policy to foreign trade and investment, Qingdao has developed quickly as a modern port city, and is now the headquarters of the Chinese navy's northern fleet.
Qingdao is also home to a variety of mineral resources, up to thirty different kinds have been mined.
The Qingdao International Airport is 36km away from city center and is served by 13 domestic and international airlines, operating 58 routes of which 10 are international and regional.
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