Official website of East China Jiaotong University introduced that East China Jiaotong University is a college. East China Jiaotong University, located in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, is a teaching and research university with work as the center, transportation as the feature, track as the core, and coordinated development of economics, management, literature, science, law, teaching and art. It is a key university in Jiangxi Province. 197 1 year, the National W Institute and the Central W Army decided to merge the locomotive and rolling stock department of Shanghai Jiaotong University and the railway engineering major of Tongji University into Shanghai Railway Institute, renamed East China Jiaotong University, and moved to Jiangxi. From 65438 to 0978, East China Jiaotong University and Shanghai Railway Institute continued to run schools. This school was originally attached to the Ministry of Railways. In 2000, it was transformed into "central and local construction, focusing on local management".