1, the name of Tongji University is taken from the idiom "We are in the same boat" as the school motto.

2. Pei Gang, president of Tongji University and academician of China Academy of Sciences, believes that "helping each other in the same boat" has a deeper meaning. It is a vivid portrayal of Tongji University's own running course and Tongji people's feelings of serving the country. Tongji University has been closely linked with national destiny and national rejuvenation since it was founded on 1907. Therefore, the motto of Tongji University has been changed from "rigorous and realistic, united and innovative" to "help each other in the same boat". School motto is the spirit of a university. It is the crystallization and accumulation of a university's school-running thought, talent goal, humanistic connotation and school-running characteristics, a high generalization of school-running purpose and academic tradition, a concentrated expression of school teaching philosophy and university spirit, the best interpretation of the core content of school culture and the best embodiment of a university's tradition and characteristics.