/kloc-at the end of 0/9, the Sino-Japanese War was defeated and the nation was in danger. Sheng Xuanhuai, a famous industrialist and educator in modern China, founded Nanyang College, the predecessor of Jiaotong University, in Shanghai on 1896, adhering to the belief that "self-improvement lies in talent storage, and talent storage must first promote learning". At the beginning of the school, the school has established the tenet of "seeking truth from facts, seeking truth from facts and being pragmatic", taking the cultivation of "first-class talents" as the educational goal, and being diligent and enterprising. In the 1920s and 1930s, it became a famous institution of higher learning in China and was known as "Oriental Massachusetts Institute of Technology". During the Anti-Japanese War, teachers and students went through a lot of difficulties, moved to the concession, moved to Chongqing, and persisted in running schools. Many students joined the army and fought bloody battles. On the eve of liberation, teachers and students actively participated in the democratic revolution, and the school was known as the "democratic fortress".
In the early days of the founding of New China, in order to meet the needs of national economic construction and build a new higher education system in China, the school adjusted a considerable number of superior majors and teachers' equipment to support the development of domestic brother colleges. In the mid-1950s, in response to the call of the country to build the northwest, the school experienced westward migration and separation, and was divided into Shanghai part of Jiaotong University and Xi 'an part. 1March, 959, both of them were listed as national key universities. In July, the State Council approved the independent establishment, and the Shanghai part of Jiaotong University was named "Shanghai Jiaotong University". In the 1960s and 1970s, under the leadership of the Science and Technology Commission for National Defense and the Sixth Ministry of Machinery Industry, the school actively participated in national defense personnel training and national defense scientific research, and made great contributions to "two bombs and one satellite" and national defense modernization.
Since the reform and opening up, the school has been determined to promote the reform in the spirit of "being the first in the world": taking the lead in forming a delegation of professors to visit the United States, taking the lead in implementing the reform of the school management system, and taking the lead in accepting huge donations from overseas friends, which has effectively promoted the reform of teaching and scientific research in the school. From 65438 to 0984, Comrade Deng Xiaoping cordially met the school leaders and representatives of teachers and students, and fully affirmed the various reforms of the school. With the strong support of the state and Shanghai, the school aims at "reaching the first class and creating the first class" and takes discipline construction as the leading factor, and has successively resumed the construction of disciplines such as science, management, health, law and humanities. 1999, Shanghai Agricultural College was merged; In 2005, it merged with Shanghai Second Medical University. At this point, the school has completed the discipline layout of the comprehensive university. In the past 20 years, through the construction of the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project" and "Double-Class" Project, the high-level talents of the school have been increasingly gathered, the scientific research strength has been rapidly improved, and the transformation to a research university has been realized. At the same time, through the cooperation with world-class universities such as the University of Michigan, the school has made important breakthroughs in implementing the internationalization strategy. The construction of Minhang Campus started at 1985. After more than 30 years, a modern university campus with perfect facilities and beautiful environment has been basically built, and the focus of running a school has shifted to Minhang Campus. The school has campuses in Xuhui, Minhang, Huangpu, Changning, Qibao and Pudong, covering a total area of more than 3 million square meters. Through a series of reform and construction, the school's indicators have been greatly improved, achieving leap-forward development, and the overall strength has been significantly enhanced, laying a solid foundation for building a world-class university.