Beijing Jiaotong University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Transport, the Beijing Municipal People's Government and China Railway Corporation. It is a national "2 1 1 Project", "985 Project Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" and "Double First Class" construction university.
As one of the three sources of Jiaotong University, Beijing Jiaotong University can be traced back to 1896 at the earliest. Its predecessor was the Institute of Railway Management founded by the Qing government. It is the first institution of higher learning in China that specializes in training management talents, and it is the birthplace of modern railway management and telecommunications education in China.
The school has successively trained a large number of outstanding talents, such as Liu Han, the founder of the first radio station in China, Jin, the author of the first monograph on railway transportation in China, Yang Rumei, the pioneer of the discipline of railway transportation economics in China, one of the four earliest accountants in China, and Zheng Zhenduo, a modern writer, literary critic and literary historian in China.
Ying Shangcai, the designer of the first high-power steam engine in China, Xiang Zhexun, the prosecutor of Tokyo Trial in China, and Ma Yinchu, a famous economist and demographer in China, all taught in this school.
The school has two campuses in the east and west, located in Haidian District, Beijing, which is known as the "University Resort", with a total area of nearly 1 10,000 mu and a building area of 1 10,000 square meters. Weihai Campus is located in Weihai City, Shandong Province, covering an area of 1 1,000 mu. Each campus has perfect teaching and research facilities and a beautiful campus environment.