University of Electronic Science and Technology of China is located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, formerly known as Chengdu Institute of Telecommunications Engineering. Under the personal deployment of Premier Zhou Enlai on 1956, it was formed by the merger of telecommunications engineering related majors of Jiaotong University (now Shanghai Jiaotong University and Xi Jiaotong University), Nanjing University of Science and Technology (now Southeast University) and South China University of Technology (now South China University of Technology).
School 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 as one of the seven national defense industrial colleges in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 1988 was renamed University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and 1997 was identified as the first batch of "265438+". In 2000, the former Minister of Information Industry was transferred to the Minister of Education. 200 1 entered the ranks of national "985 project" key construction universities, and 20 17 entered the ranks of national "world-class universities" A universities.
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"2 1 1 project", that is, 100 colleges and universities and a number of key discipline construction projects oriented to 2 1 century, was officially launched in 1995 with the approval of the State Council. "2 1 1 Project" is the largest and highest-level key construction work in the field of higher education initiated by the state since the founding of New China. This is an important measure taken by the China government to implement the strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education", and it is also an important decision made by the Chinese nation to develop higher education in the face of the domestic and international situation at the turn of the century.
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University of Electronic Science and Technology of China-school profile