East China Jiaotong University (ECJTU) is located in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, China, a city which has a long history of culture. Situated in the middle of China, Nanchang has convenient transportation network including high-speed railway, aviation and expressway. It takes only 3 or 4 hours to Shanghai or Guangzhou by taking the high-speed railway. ECJTU nestles near a mountain, with a river running beside and a few lakes dotted inside. Like a wonderful landscape with blooming flowers and exuberantly growing trees scattered here and there, and birds chorusing inside at times, the campus is an ideal place for teaching, learning and living. Among the school size of nearly 3000 mu (200 hectares), the area of buildings of all kinds exceeds 810,000 square meters. Apart from advanced equipment for teaching and scientific researches whose value is estimated to total 480 million Yuan, ECJTU has a library, as a first-class Chinese retrieval station for academic journals and documents, boasting 2.41million volumes of books and journals, and over 2.33 million volumes of electronic documents.
ECJTU is composed of 18 schools covering 8 disciplines, including Engineering, Economics, Management, Literature, Science, Law, Education and Arts. ECJTU is a multidisciplinary teaching- and research-oriented institution featuring transportation with track as its core, it has 3 doctoral programs of the first-rank disciplines and 21 master’s programs of the first-rank disciplines. Some top undergraduates can be exempted from admission exam to study for a master's program. ECJTU has 19 national first-class majors, 18 provincial first-class majors, 63 undergraduate programs, including 4 National Feature Specialties and 3 National Excellent Engineers Pilot Programs. Besides, ECJTU is National CAD Application Engineering Training Base and National Intellectual Property Training (Jiangxi) Base.
At present, ECJTU has more than 30,000 students and nearly 2,000 teaching and administrative staff, among whom more than 660 are professors and associate professors. Meanwhile, ECJTU has over 200 excellent talents who has received honorable titles at provincial level or even higher, including “Double-Hired Academician”, Distinguished Professor of “Chang Jiang Scholars Program”, “National Outstanding Young Scholars”, “Ten-Thousand Talent Project” Leading Talents in Sci-Tech Innovation, National “Hundred, Thousand and Ten-thousand Talent Project”, talents enjoying special allowance of the State Council, “Program for Excellent Talents in New Century” of the Ministry of Education, “Young and Middle-Aged Leading Talents in Science Technology” of the Ministry of Science and Technology, “National Excellent Teacher” , “National Excellent Educators” Distinguished Professors of “Jingangshan Scholars”, “Double Thousand Plan”, “Ganpo Yingcai 555 Project”, etc.
When heaven and earth united in deep harmony, then the peace and blessing descend upon all living things, which is the essence of Jiaotong. Adhering to our motto “Daily Renewal of Virtues, Relentless Pursuit of Perfection”, ECJTU abides by the spirit of “Unity, Practicality, Creativity and Striving”. Planning and implementing skillfully and deliberately in 100 years, ECJTU has created an open atmosphere for free minds and solid work. And it is committed to shaping itself into a nationally renowned institution with distinctive features and prominent advantages.