East China Jiaotong University, located in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, is a teaching and research university with transportation as its feature, track as its core and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. It is a university jointly established by China Railway Corporation, State Railway Administration and Jiangxi Provincial People's Government. It is also a national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in the Midwest" and a key university in Jiangxi Province.
It has been selected into the Education and Training Plan for Excellent Engineers of the Ministry of Education, the National Training Plan for College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the New Engineering Research and Practice Project of the Ministry of Education, the first-class discipline construction universities in Jiangxi Province, the national universities with typical experience in graduate employment, the national universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship, the national demonstration universities for deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and the national innovation and entrepreneurship base for practical education in colleges and universities.
The National College Students' Cultural Quality Education Base, the National Intellectual Property Training Base, the work unit of exempting graduate students, and the pilot unit of building a transportation power in Jiangxi Province are the founding members of the China-Russia Jiaotong University Alliance and the China-ASEAN Rail Transit Education and Training Alliance.
197 1 year, the State Council and the Central Military Commission 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".