1. School type: Shanghai Jiaotong University is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in China, enjoying a high reputation at home and abroad. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and jointly established with Shanghai. After 120 years of unremitting efforts, Shanghai Jiaotong University has been built into a first-class domestic and internationally renowned university with "comprehensiveness, innovation and internationality". China Renmin University is the first new-type ordinary university founded by China, directly under the Ministry of Education and jointly built by the Ministry of Education and Beijing Municipality. The current party secretary is Zhang Donggang, and the president is Lin Shangli.

2. Contribution: Jiaotong University always regards talent training as the fundamental task of running a school. Over the past century, the school has trained more than 400,000 outstanding talents for the country and society, including a group of outstanding politicians, scientists, social activists, industrialists, engineering and technical experts and medical experts. Renmin University of China insists on solving the China problem based on China's reality, takes it as its own responsibility to answer the China problem, the world problem, the people problem and the times problem, and devotes itself to studying major political, economic, cultural and social issues.