There are 565,438+0 universities in Nanjing, including Nanjing University, Southeast University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Hohai University, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing Normal University and Nanjing University of Finance and Economics.

Nanjing, referred to as "Ning", was called Jinling and Jiankang in ancient times. Jiangsu province is a prefecture-level city and the provincial capital. The State Council is a sub-provincial city, a mega-city, a core city in Nanjing metropolitan area, an important central city in eastern China, an important national research and education base and a comprehensive transportation hub. By 2020, the city will have 1 1 districts with a total area of 6587.02 square kilometers.

Nanjing has been a city that advocates and attaches importance to education since ancient times, and has the reputation of "the literary hub in the world" and "the first school in Southeast China". The earliest recorded school was founded by Danyang Taishou in the sixth year of Jianwu in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 30). As early as the Han Dynasty, private schools in Jiangdong were already relatively developed. The government-run higher education in Nanjing began in Soochow.

In the first year of Yong 'an Wu (258), Dr. Sun Xiu Zhao Li established Chinese studies, in the first year of Jianwu Jin (3 17), Si Marui established imperial academy in Jiankang. During the Southern Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, Jiankang imperial academy (Nanjing imperial academy) set up a five-branch library of literature, history, Confucianism, metaphysics and yin and yang. It is the first university in the world that has an independent higher education system and combines education with research.