Chengdu Dianzi University is a 985 school. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), which is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Sichuan Province and Chengdu. Among the "world-class universities and disciplines", "985 Project" and "2 1 1 project". The Institute of Extended Information, formerly known as Chengdu Institute of Telecommunications Engineering, was formed by the merger of Telecommunications Engineering majors of Jiaotong University (now Shanghai Jiaotong University and Xi Jiaotong University), Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) and South China University of Technology (now South China University of Technology). 1956. 1960 was listed as a national key institution of higher learning in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China; 196 1 was identified by the central government as one of the seven national defense industrial colleges. 1988 was renamed University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.