East China Jiaotong University, located in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, is a teaching and research university with work as the center, transportation as the feature, track as the core, and coordinated development of economics, management, literature, science, law, teaching and art. It is a provincial key university. The school is one of the key universities in the national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Colleges and Universities in the Midwest" sponsored by the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government and China Railway Corporation. It was selected into the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" of the Ministry of Education and the "20 1 1 Plan" of Jiangxi Province, and was rated as a national typical graduate employment experience university and the first batch of national top 50 universities in innovation and entrepreneurship by the Ministry of Education. It is a national university that recruits, selects and trains reserve officers to sign contracts.

197 1 year, the state decided to merge the locomotive and rolling stock department of Shanghai Jiaotong University and the railway engineering major of Tongji University into Shanghai Railway Institute, renamed East China Jiaotong University, and moved to Jiangxi. 1978, the central government agreed that the former Shanghai Railway Institute would not be relocated, and East China Jiaotong University would continue to establish its school in Nanchang, led by the former Ministry of Railways and Jiangxi Province, mainly by the former Ministry of Railways; In 2000, the school was transformed into a "central and local * * * building, with local management as the mainstay".

As of June 20 16, 10, the school covers an area of nearly 3,000 mu, with a building area of over 700,000 square meters, and the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is nearly 350 million yuan. With 2.03 million paper books and 2.33 million electronic documents, the library is a first-class academic periodical literature retrieval consulting station in China. The school has 1 postdoctoral research center, 1 postdoctoral research mobile station, 1 academician workstation, 3 first-class doctoral programs and 19 first-class master programs; There are more than 23,000 students in school, including more than 2,800 graduate students. Faculty 1700, including more than 530 associate professors; The school has 17 secondary colleges and 60 undergraduate majors.