Xidian university, abbreviated as "xidian university" or "Xijun University", is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It was jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Shaanxi Province and xi City.
It is one of the first batch of 20 national key universities, world-class discipline construction universities, Beijing Hi-Tech University Alliance and New Silk Road University Alliance in 1959. Selected in the first batch of "2 1 1 project", "985 innovation platform for engineering advantage disciplines", "201/plan", "1plan" and "excellent engineer education and training plan".