In 1971, as instructed by the State Council and the Central Military Commission, both the College of Locomotive and Rolling Stock in Shanghai Jiaotong University and College of Railway Engineering in Tongji University would be integrated into Shanghai Railway Institute and transferred to Jiangxi Province with a new name East China Jiaotong University (ECJTU). However, in 1978, ECJTU and Shanghai Railway Institute were arranged to run independently. Originally affiliated to the Ministry of Railways of China, ECJTU witnessed conversion in its running mechanism in 2000, becoming a school “co-sponsored by both central and provincial governments, but mainly under the administration of the latter”.

East China Jiaotong University（ECJTU）, as a multi-disciplinary teaching-and-research-oriented institution in China, features transportation engineering with focus on railway-related disciplines. Dually co-constructed by China State Railway Group and Jiangxi Provincial People’s Government, and the National Railway Administration and the local government, ECJTU has grown into a provincially key university, accredited as a participant to the “Central-western Chinese Universities Capacity-building Project” and an institution offering doctoral degree programs.