Jinnan campus. Official website of Nankai University shows that Jinnan District is located at No.38, Tongyan Road, Haihe Education Park. Nankai University is a key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education and the alma mater of beloved Premier Zhou Enlai. The school started in 1904 and was established in 19 19. It was founded by Yan Xiu and Zhang Boling, modern patriotic educators, adhering to the idea of saving the country through education. 1937, the campus was bombed by the Japanese invaders, and the school moved south, forming the National Changsha Temporary University with Peking University and Tsinghua. /kloc-moved to Kunming in 0/938 and changed its name to National Southwest Associated University. 1946 returned to Tianjin to resume school and changed to national.