Nanjing University of Science and Technology is a national key university with the coordinated development of science, engineering, literature, economics, management, law, teaching and art directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the key universities under the national "2 1 1 Engineering" and "985 Engineering Superiority Discipline Innovation Platform". It is one of the universities selected for "1 1 Plan", "Excellence Plan" and "Sino-Russian Engineering University Alliance" and is known as the cradle of weapons technical talents.