Xi Jiaotong University is a key university directly under the Ministry of Education and one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in China. Its predecessor was Nanyang Public School, which was founded in Shanghai, 1896. 192 1 renamed jiaotong university. 1956, the State Council decided to move Jiaotong University to Xi 'an. 1959 was named Xi jiaotong university and listed as a national key university. Xi Jiaotong University is the first batch of key construction projects in the Seventh Five-Year Plan and the Eighth Five-Year Plan. It was also one of the first schools to enter the national "2 1 1" and "985" projects, and was identified by the state as a school with the goal of building a world-renowned high-level university. In April 2000, the State Council merged the former xi Medical University and the former Shaanxi University of Finance and Economics into the former Xi Jiaotong University to form a new Xi Jiaotong University.
Today, Xi Jiaotong University is a comprehensive research university featuring science and engineering, covering science, engineering, medicine, economics, management, literature, law, philosophy, teaching, arts and other disciplines 10. The school has 20 colleges (departments), 8 undergraduate colleges and 8 affiliated teaching hospitals. At present, there are 5635 on-the-job teaching staff, 24 full-time teachers, and more than 500 professors and associate professors. At present, the school has 2 academicians of the two academies1person, including double-hired academicians 1 1 person. There are 6 national famous teaching teachers, 44 lecturers and distinguished professor from the Ministry of Education, 29 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 0/5 national experts with outstanding contributions and young and middle-aged experts, 0/5 innovation team leaders from the Ministry of Education, and 0/88 winners from the "New Century Excellent Talents Training Plan" from the Ministry of Education.
Cooperative education
The school has stepped up its efforts to open up its schools, and set up four research institutes in Beijing, Tangshan, Changzhou and Shenzhen, which run through the north and south, covering Beijing, Tianjin, Bohai Rim, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta. It has established long-term cooperative partnership with 142 universities and scientific research institutions in more than 60 countries (regions) around the world, and is one of the cooperative institutions of "China-US 1+2+ 1", "China-France 4+4" and "China-Europe Elite University Alliance Project" (TAMDEM). Cooperate with Tate University in Karsch, Sweden to build the Confucius Institute at Tate University in Karsch (the first Confucius Institute established overseas by the school and the first Confucius Institute established by Sichuan universities in Europe); During the 7th World High-speed Railway Congress, the cooperation agreement was formally signed with the International Railway Union, which indicates that the school will become an important base for international railway personnel training. The school has established partnerships with MIT, Waseda University, technical university of munich and other well-known universities, and resumed the traditional contact with Cornell University that was interrupted for decades.
development planning
Facing the future, the school will conscientiously implement the spirit of the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan (20 10-2020) and the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-term Talent Development Plan (20 10-2020), and follow the school-running policy of "education-oriented, quality first, reasonable structure and distinctive features" to Actively promote the original innovation and integrated innovation in the field of rail transit in China, cultivate high-quality talents, and strive to build a high-level research university with coordinated development of multiple disciplines with traffic characteristics. ;