Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province. In the long-term process of running the school, the quality of talent training is high and the graduates have a good social reputation.

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications is a national "double first-class" construction university and a Class A construction university of Jiangsu High-level University Peak Plan. Its predecessor was the Eighth Route Army Combat Post Training Class born in the Shandong Anti-Japanese Base in 1942. It is one of the schools that systematically trained communication talents in the early days of our party and our army. In 1958, it was approved by the State Council to be rebuilt into an undergraduate university and named Nanjing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications; in April 2005, it was renamed Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. The university was originally a key university directly under the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Ministry of Information Industry. Since 2000, it has been jointly built by the central and local governments (now the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Post Bureau and Jiangsu Province). In 2017, it was selected as one of the first batch of "Double First-Class" universities in the country, and in 2022, it was again selected as one of the second round of "Double First-Class" universities. In October 2013, the former Nanjing Population Management Cadre College was officially merged into Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. The school adheres to the spirit of "faith in the world and self-improvement", practices the school motto of "virtue, perseverance, truth-seeking, and practice", and promotes the school spirit of "diligence, truth-seeking, enterprising, and innovation". At present, the school has developed into a university with engineering as the main body, electronic information as the feature, science, engineering, economics, management, literature, education, art, law and other disciplines intertwined, and postdoctoral, doctoral, master, undergraduate and other multi-level education coordinated development. The university is located in the historical and cultural city of Nanjing. It currently has four campuses, Xianlin, Sanpailou, Suojincun, and Jiangning, 25 colleges (departments, centers), and an independent college in Yangzhou - Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Tongda College.

The university currently has 3 postdoctoral mobile stations, 8 first-level doctoral degree authorization points, and 1 doctoral professional degree authorization point (category). There are 23 first-level master's degree authorization points, 12 master's professional degree authorization points (categories), and 59 undergraduate majors. At present, there are 4 disciplines in the top 4‰ of the ESI discipline ranking in the world, 1 national key discipline (cultivation point), 22 national first-class majors, 7 national characteristic major construction points, 1 national professional comprehensive reform pilot project, 9 majors have passed the national engineering education professional certification, and 8 national excellence plan majors. As the main collaborative unit, 2 were selected into the national "2011 Collaborative Innovation Center", and as the leading unit, 2 were selected into the provincial "2011 Plan" Collaborative Innovation Center. There are more than 30,000 students of various types.

The school has a well-structured faculty team. There are more than 2,800 faculty members, including 1,115 doctoral and master's supervisors. The proportion of full-time teachers with senior professional and technical positions is 55.57%, and the proportion with doctoral and master's degrees is 96.13%. It has introduced the first Nobel Prize winner in Jiangsu provincial universities. There are 9 academicians of the two Chinese academies (including dual appointments), 4 "Changjiang Scholars" Distinguished Professors of the Ministry of Education, 1 "Changjiang Scholars" Lecture Professor of the Ministry of Education, 4 "Changjiang Scholars" Young Scholars of the Ministry of Education, 5 winners of the "National Outstanding Youth Fund", 5 winners of the National Hundred Thousand Talents Project, 9 winners of the National "Outstanding Young Science Fund", 1 winner of the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 National Teaching Master, 1 National Outstanding Teacher, 48 people enjoying special government allowances, 4 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, 10 people in the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, 6 foreign academicians, and 10 IEEE Fellows. There is currently one national key field innovation team, one innovation team of the Ministry of Education's "Yangtze River Scholars and Innovation Team Development Program", and two "National Huang Danian-style Teacher Teams of Colleges and Universities" of the Ministry of Education. A large number of teachers are active in the ITU, the Ministry of Education's Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee, the China Communications Society, the Electronics Society, the Computer Society, the Automation Society, the Statistical Society and other institutions as fellows, committee directors, and experts.

The school has good teaching and scientific research support conditions. There is currently one national key laboratory, one national and local joint engineering research center, one national and local joint engineering laboratory, one provincial and ministerial key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, and two engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education; two national experimental teaching demonstration centers, three national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, four national virtual simulation experimental teaching first-class courses, one national engineering practice education center, one national off-campus practice education base, and one national college student science and technology entrepreneurship internship base; 11 key laboratories of the former Ministry of Information Industry. The library has a collection of more than 2.65 million paper documents, including complete and distinctive professional documents such as information, communications, and electronics.

The school has made remarkable achievements in talent cultivation and has achieved excellent results in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education. For a long time, the school has been committed to cultivating high-quality talents with all-round development, adhering to the principle of "solid foundation, high quality and strong ability", continuously deepening the reform of education and teaching, and building a distinctive talent cultivation system. In recent years, it has won 1 first prize and 2 second prizes in national teaching achievements; 22 national first-class courses, 1 boutique course, 1 national bilingual teaching demonstration course, 1 national boutique resource sharing course, 1 Ministry of Education-Intel boutique course, and 70 AiKeCheng.com Chinese University MOOC courses; 2 national boutique (excellent) textbooks, 8 national planning textbooks for the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan"; 1 first prize for outstanding achievements in campus culture construction of colleges and universities from the Ministry of Education. College students have achieved remarkable results in various competitions at all levels, and have won the highest awards in the National College Student Electronic Design Competition "Sony Cup", "Renesas Cup", "Challenge Cup", the special prize "Yousheng Cup" of the National College Student Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, the China International "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Gold Award, the highest award of the American College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition SIAM Award, the first prize of the National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition, the China Robot Competition and Robocup Open Championship and other important national awards. Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", it has won more than 6,000 awards at the provincial and ministerial levels. In the 80 years since its establishment, the school has provided the country with more than 250,000 outstanding talents of various types, many of whom have become leaders, technical elites and management backbones in the information industry and population and family planning fields at home and abroad, and enjoy the reputation of "the cradle of Chinese IT talents".

The school has vigorously improved its scientific and technological innovation level and social service capabilities. The university has built a five-in-one scientific and technological innovation system of "information materials, information devices, information systems, information networks, and information applications", and is at the domestic advanced level in the research fields of new generation mobile communications, Internet of Things, mobile Internet, big data, cloud computing, cyberspace security, organic electronics and information display, integrated circuits and micro-assembly, smart grids, optical communications, intelligent manufacturing, modern postal services, demography, etc. In the past three years, 438 national scientific research projects of various types have been added, including major national science and technology projects, national 973 plans, national major scientific research instrument development, key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, and National Social Science Foundation projects; won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award, the first and second prizes of the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements Award for Colleges and Universities (Science and Technology), the second prize of the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements Award for Colleges and Universities (Humanities and Social Sciences), and 82 scientific research achievement awards at the provincial and ministerial levels and above, such as the "Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances in Chinese Colleges and Universities"; and published 3,995 high-quality papers. The school implements the "one city, one institute" school-local characteristic cooperation strategy and the "one technology, one enterprise" school-enterprise collaborative innovation strategy, and jointly builds 8 school-local research institutes and technology transfer sub-centers and high-value patent cultivation centers with local governments, and 27 school-enterprise innovation platforms with enterprises. Focusing on the characteristics of disciplines such as communications and the Internet of Things, the school has completed a full-scale layout in the field of the Internet of Things from talent training, scientific research to serving the society, and has built one national university science and technology park, one national technology transfer demonstration institution, one national science popularization education base, and three national maker spaces.

The school actively promotes international exchanges and cooperation. It was selected into the national "Higher Education Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Plan" (abbreviated as "111 Plan") in 2017; it recruits overseas students at the undergraduate, master and doctoral levels, and the students come from more than 60 countries including Russia and Kazakhstan. At present, there are more than 700 international students on campus. More than a thousand foreign experts and scholars have come to the school to participate in international conferences, lectures and visits. There are more than 70 overseas student exchange programs. In cooperation with Portland State University in the United States, a Sino-foreign cooperatively-run institution, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Portland College, was established to recruit undergraduate, master and doctoral students. Actively participate in various meetings organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), undertake the training tasks of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunications Organization (APT) in China, and actively participate in the formulation of relevant international standards in the field of communications.

Nanyou people uphold the fine tradition of pragmatism and enterprising spirit, and have explored a road of development with big information characteristics, relying on the postal and telecommunications industry to specialize and refine, and to expand and strengthen in the information society. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out that it is necessary to "accelerate the construction of first-class universities and first-class disciplines and realize the connotation-oriented development of higher education." At present, the country is actively promoting the "Internet +" action plan, which provides a broad development space for the rapid and scientific development of the school. The school is seizing the opportunity to fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to the four major strategies of "quality-based school, talent-based school, characteristic-based school, and innovation-based school", firmly establish the strategic thinking of "adjusting structure, promoting transformation; making up for shortcomings, improving standards; strengthening characteristics, creating first-class", and promote the overall strength of the electronic information science and engineering discipline group to enter the ranks of world-class disciplines, comprehensively embark on a new journey of building a research-oriented university, and strive to build a high-level university with distinctive characteristics in the field of electronic information. (March 2022)