Brief Introduction of Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Nanjing University of Science and Technology (Chinese: 南京理工大学; pinyin: Nánjīng Lǐgōng Dàxué), colloquially NJUST (南理工; Nánlǐgōng) is one of the national key universities under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. It is a science-oriented university located in Xuanwu District in the east suburban area of Nanjing.

Nanjing University of Science and Technology can be traced back to 1952, as Department of Artillery Engineering of Institute of Military Engineering of the PLA in Harbin. Since its establishment, it aims on serving national strategies and promoting social progress. In 1962, the campus moved to Nanjing. The name of the university changed many times, and finally determined as current name in 1993. In September 1998, the name on the school badge was inscribed by President Jiang Zemin.[4] In June 2008, Nanjing University of Science and Technology is subordinated to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Nanjing University of Science and Technology is a multi-disciplinary university, comprising academic fields including science, engineering, liberal arts, economics, business, management, law and education. In addition, it encompasses a wide array of centers, institutes, programs, and administrative support offices. It carries on its education and research on both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in 15 schools, led by a total of 70 undergraduate majors, 116 master programs and 49 doctoral programs, and 14 Post-doctoral research stations.

Brief Introduction of Nanjing

Nanjing, as a historic and cultural city, is the capital of Jiangsu Province and among the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China. In thousands of years’ evolution, the surging Yangtze River has witnessed its own civilization and the birth of Nanjing which locates right on its southern bank. The city is situated in the largest economic zones of the county- eastern China, and is the second largest city in this region after Shanghai.

Nanjing is on the downstream drainage basin of Yangtze River and close to the sea. A golden waterway passes through Nanjing where naturally forms a superb port which has been regarded as the top inland river port. In Nanjing, there has been convenient transportation which includes domestic air lines to major cities and nonstop international lines to places including Frankfurt, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taipei, etc. It takes only three hours to Beijing by high-speed railway, and one hour to Shanghai.

Nanjing is an important comprehensive industrial production base with its electronic and chemical productivity ranking at the second place, automobile manufacturing scale at the third place, as well as its leading technologies and scale in machinery manufacturing industry. It is also one of the country’s four research and education center cities. With many national-level universities and research institutions in Nanjing, the city has been the most important base for higher education and scientific research.  

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