Being one of the founding teaching divisions which were set up when Inner Mongolia University(IMU) was founded in 1957, the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (CCCE) was formerly known as the Department of Chemistry. When it was founded, some of the middle-aged and young backbone teachers from such prestigious universities as Peking University, Jilin University, Nankai University and other universities formed the main part of the college’s faculty. In April, 2000, the Department of Chemistry was expanded and renamed as the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.

CCCE now consist of the Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical Engineering and covers 3 disciplines of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Technology. And the discipline of Chemistry of the college consists 4 sub-disciplines of Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry; the discipline of Materials Science and Engineering consists of a sub-discipline of Materials Physics and Chemistry and the discipline of Chemical Engineering and Technology is comprised of a sub-discipline of Materials and Applied Chemistry. The discipline of Chemistry of the college has been listed as a key development discipline of the university under “211 Project”, “Co-Development Program for IMU by the Ministry of Education(MOE) and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region(IMAR)” and “IMU Program for First-Class Discipline Development”. The disciplines of Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Applied Chemistry have been selected as regional-level key disciplines. The disciplines of Chemistry, Materials and Engineering have successively ranked top 1% of ESI rating of global disciplines.

The college offers the post-doctoral program and doctor’s degree program of the discipline of Chemistry, master’s degree programs of the disciplines of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering and master’s degree programs of 7 sub-disciplines of Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Applied Chemistry and Materials and Chemical Engineering.

The college offers 4 undergraduate majors including Chemistry(Chemistry Base), Applied Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Technology, of which the major of Chemistry and that of Chemical Engineering and Technology have been selected as the candidates for the development of the national first-class undergraduate majors.

The college has 2 regional-level Experiment Teaching Demonstration Centers, 1 Base for Innovation and Overseas Talent Introduction under “National 111 Program”, 1 MOE Research Center for Engineering, 4 regional-level key laboratories and 1 regional-level engineering research center.

The College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering has a staff of 129, of which 30 are professors, 34 associate professors, 39 PhD student supervisors and 89 master student supervisors. It has 2 regional-level Teaching Teams. The college has 1 faculty member selected as Distinguished Professor with Chang Jiang Scholars Program, 1 entitled Middle-Aged and Young Expert with Outstanding Contributions under the National One Hundred, One Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Program, 2 with the title of Young Scholars with Chang Jiang Scholars Program, 2 with the National Program for Introduction of High-Level Overseas Talents, 3 with MOE Program for Outstanding Talents in the New Century, 1 winning Fok Ying Tung Award  for Young Teachers, 2 entitled Regional Master Teacher of Institution of Higher Learning, 25 with Grassland Talent Program and 3 entitled Regional Middle-Aged and Young Experts with Outstanding Contributions. The college now has 960 undergraduate students, 738 master students, 167 PhD students, 4 international students and 2 post-doctor research fellows.

The College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering is equipped with high-quality teaching and research facilities and fine atmosphere for cultivating talents. In 2018, the college was approved by MOE as one of the first batch of pilot schools for “Cultivation of Talents by All in the Whole Process and in All Aspects”-the only one in IMAR. At present, the experiment building of the college has a floor area of nearly 18,000 square meters and its laboratories have a floor area of 9,300 square meters. The college has 7 basic laboratories including the Basic Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Basic Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Basic Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Basic Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Laboratory of Principle of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory of Materials Chemistry and Laboratory of Applied Chemistry. Besides, the college has an analysis and test center of the advanced large-scale instruments in which RMB180 million has been invested, and many high-end and large-scale instruments like high-resolution transmission electron microscope, scanning electron microscope, nuclear magnetic resonance chemical analyser, X-ray single-crystal diffractometer, X-ray photoelectron spectrometer and atomic force microscope, which secure the high-level teaching and scientific research.

Based on the scientific and technological needs of the country and IMAR, the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering has carried out research centering on such advantageous and unique resources and energy of IMAR as coal, natural gas, rare earth, non-metal mineral resources, Mongolian medicine and dairy products. It has formed the unique and high-level research focuses in energy materials chemistry, rare earth inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, Mongolian medicine and chemicobiology, environment catalytic chemistry and quality security control of diary products. In recent 5 years, the college’s faculty members have 160 research projects approved and supported, of which 57 are national-level projects whose grants total RMB 26 million, 75 provincial or ministerial-level projects whose grants total over RMB 29 million and 28 other projects with grants of more than RMB 30 million. They have published over 500 academic articles which are included by Science Citation Index. It has become normal for its faculty members to publish their high-level research results in such international top journals as Science Adv., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater. and Chem. Rev.. They have published over 10 monographs and had over 80 nationally authorized patents, 16 of which have been transformed industrially and produced an economic benefit of RMB over 10 million. And they won IMAR Natural Science Awards including 1 special prize, 4 first prizes and 1second prize, and 1 first prize of IMAR Awards for Scientific and Technological Progress.