When Jiaotong University moved westward, more than 6,000 teachers and students packed their bags and set off without hesitation at the command of the CPC Central Committee. Peng Kangqin, then secretary of the Party Committee and president, brought his own team, and 17 of party member 16 went to Xi 'an, which played an exemplary role and reflected the strong leadership of the Party.
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The westward movement of Jiaotong University has changed the situation that there are no large-scale multidisciplinary industrial universities in the west and supported the economic and social development in the west. In fact, the strategic plan of the CPC Central Committee to move Jiaotong University from Shanghai to Xi 'an is for the development of the whole Chinese nation and new China, and to promote the development of the western region through the improvement of educational layout and industrial layout. On the boarding pass of "Jiaotong University supports the Northwest Special Train", there are ten big characters printed: "March to science and build the northwest".
After the CPC Central Committee made the strategic decision to move Jiaotong University to the west, an institution of higher learning was built on the bank of Weihe River in just one year under extremely difficult conditions. More than 70% of the teachers and 80% of the students of Jiaotong University went to the northwest thousands of miles away, far away from the bustling Huangpu River, and took root in loess, striving to build Xi Jiaotong University into a first-class institution standing in the northwest.
In the process of moving westward, there was no interruption of any teaching, nor did it delay the enrollment of a session. All the teachers and students quickly carried out teaching and research on the humble campus. Some of them came to Xi 'an with their wives and children, while others injected insulin while doing experiments. This is supported by the spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle.
The teachers and students who stayed in Shanghai, inspired by the spirit of moving west, have achieved leap-forward development and built Shanghai Jiaotong University into a world-famous first-class university. This has created a miracle in the history of China's higher education, and embodied the feelings of home and country and the sense of historical responsibility of generations of Jiaotong University students who have the overall situation in mind, selfless dedication, carrying forward the tradition and hard struggle.
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