Biography | 任正非 Ren Zhengfei — The Architecture Institute That Is Now Chongqing University Campus B

In 1963, at nineteen, Ren Zhengfei entered the Chongqing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture. The school sat in Shapingba. It was not Tsinghua and it was not Peking University. For a student out of Guizhou after the famine years, the admission was the hinge. He majored in building services — heating, ventilation and water, the trade then called nuantong. The Cultural Revolution stopped classes while he was still enrolled. He later said he taught himself computing, control and languages in those years. Those self-taught subjects, not the original HVAC syllabus, are what the later resume leans on. In 2000 the institute was merged into Chongqing University. The old architecture campus is today's Campus B at 83 Shabei Street, across Shazheng Street from Campus A. A visitor books through the university's public appointment system. The gate is a working campus gate, not a founder shrine. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Chongqing University main entrance.