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Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (hereinafter referred to as "Nanxin University"), located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is a national key university featuring atmospheric science. It was jointly established by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, China People's Government, Ministry of Education, China Meteorological Bureau and State Oceanic Administration. It is a national "double-class" university. Jiangsu high-level university construction peak plan class A construction universities.
Members of China University Planetary Science Alliance have been selected into the national "20 1 1 plan", the national "key discipline project" to build universities, the national public graduate program to build high-level universities, the "excellent engineer education and training program" of the Ministry of Education, the scholarship receiving institution of China government for overseas students studying in China, the national innovation and entrepreneurship training program for college students, the first batch of national demonstration universities to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and the first batch of pilot schools of emergency management college.
The school was founded on 1960. It was originally under the Meteorological Bureau of the Central Military Commission. Its predecessor was the Institute of Meteorology of Nanjing University. 1963 was independently set up as a meteorological college, and 1978 was listed as a national key university. In 2004, the school was renamed Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology. Since 2007, Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, China Meteorological Bureau, Ministry of Education and State Oceanic Administration have been established. Now it is a central and local university mainly managed by Jiangsu Province.