Lanzhou Jiaotong University

Lanzhou Jiaotong University is located in Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province and an important node city of the "Belt and Road Initiative". It is a university jointly built by China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. and Gansu Provincial People's Government, the National Railway Administration and Gansu Provincial People's Government, the authorized construction unit of the Confucius Institute of the University of Seville, Spain, a counterpart support university of the Ministry of Education, a university selected in the Ministry of Education's "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program", a university supported by the Ministry of Education's "Demonstration University for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform", a university supported by the Ministry of Education's "Central and Western Education Revitalization Plan", a demonstration base for international students of the Ministry of Education, a high-level university in Gansu Province and a university with "first-class disciplines". The school has a large number of talent training bases, including the National Language and Character Promotion Base, the National Railway Science Popularization Base, the National Beidou Science Popularization Base, the Ministry of Education Cultural Heritage Base, the Ministry of Railways Continuing Education Western Base and the Northwest Minority Language Training Base.

The predecessor of the university can be traced back to the Shanhaiguan Beiyang Railway Academy established in 1896 and the Beijing Railway Management Institute established in 1909. In 1958, the Ministry of Railways decided to establish the third railway undergraduate university in my country in Lanzhou - Lanzhou Railway Institute. The five departments of railway transportation, railway motors, railway construction, railway bridges and tunnels, and railway machinery, seven undergraduate majors, and five junior college majors were moved to Lanzhou by Beijing Railway Institute (i.e. Beijing Railway Management Institute, now Beijing Jiaotong University) and Tangshan Railway Institute (i.e. Shanhaiguan Beiyang Railway Academy, now Southwest Jiaotong University). More than 340 experts and scholars from the two colleges, represented by Lin Damie, Shen Zhiyang, Hu Chunnong, Sun Qiyin, and Zhang Dianzhi, came to Lanzhou to teach, and successfully enrolled 446 new students that year. In the 1960s, a group of postgraduates and postgraduates of science and technology who studied in the Soviet Union were selected to enrich the teaching staff. The older generation of educators led students from all over the world to work hard in the difficult environment of the northwest, and opened the first sixty years of Lanzhou Jiaotong University with their wisdom and emotions of building, loving and honoring the school. In 2000, the school implemented the system of "co-construction by the central and local governments, with local government management as the main body". In 2003, Lanzhou Railway Institute was renamed Lanzhou Jiaotong University. After 64 years of construction and development, the school has become the cradle of Chinese railway engineers, and has firmly embarked on a characteristic school-running path with rail transit as the core, and has developed into a university with distinctive industry characteristics, outstanding service capabilities, domestic reputation, and irreplaceable in the construction of rail transit in the northwest region.

The school currently has 2 campuses, covering an area of ​​1,564 acres, a school building area of ​​709,700 square meters, and a library collection of 2.3118 million books. There are 22 directly affiliated colleges (departments) and 1 national university science and technology park. There are 31,198 full-time students, including 22,390 undergraduates, 6,793 postgraduates (6,442 master's students and 351 doctoral students), 231 international students, and 1,754 vocational students.

There are 2,346 faculty members, including 1,780 full-time teachers, 344 professors, 650 associate professors, 94 doctoral supervisors, and 1,195 master's supervisors. There are 2 dual-appointed academicians, 1 "Changjiang Scholar" Distinguished Professor, 2 flexibly introduced "Changjiang Scholar" Distinguished Professors, and 2 National Outstanding Youths. There are 344 high-level talents including "May 1st Labor Medal" winners, national outstanding teachers, national advanced teachers, national model teachers, Zhan Tianyou Railway Science and Technology Award winners, Mao Yisheng Railway Science and Technology Award winners, Baosteel Education Award winners, Gansu Province Higher Education Young Teachers "Achievement Award" winners, and Gansu Province Higher Education Teaching Masters.

There are 70 undergraduate majors and directions. There are 6 national characteristic major construction sites, 1 national comprehensive reform pilot major, 19 majors approved as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites (vehicle engineering, electrical engineering and automation, rail transit signal and control, communication engineering, computer science and technology, civil engineering, engineering management, water supply and drainage science and engineering, building environment and energy application engineering, transportation, logistics management, English, geographic information science, mechanical design and manufacturing and automation, electronic science and technology, software engineering, railway engineering, surveying and mapping engineering, transportation engineering), 5 courses approved as national first-class undergraduate courses (EMU vehicle structure and design, engineering drawing, water quality engineering II, university computer foundation 1, data and scenario driven high-speed train operation control virtual simulation experiment).

There are 6 majors that have passed the engineering education professional certification of the Ministry of Education, 4 majors have passed the professional evaluation of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and 5 majors have accepted the on-site inspection of the engineering education certification of the Ministry of Education in 2021. There is 1 national teaching team, 1 Huang Danian-style teacher team in national universities, 4 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, 1 national talent training model innovation experimental zone, 11 national engineering practice education centers, 19 provincial teaching teams and 16 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers.

The school relies on the railway industry and highlights the characteristics of transportation. Provincial first-class disciplines such as transportation, civil engineering, environmental science and engineering, mechanical engineering, and information and communication engineering have obvious comparative advantages in China. There are 8 disciplines, and 2 disciplines of engineering and chemistry are in the top 1% of the ESI global ranking. There are 5 postdoctoral research stations, 6 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees (including 2 disciplines of engineering and management), 28 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, and 15 master's professional degree authorization categories. There are 6 provincial "double first-class" characteristic construction project disciplines and 24 provincial key disciplines. In the fourth round of subject evaluation by the Ministry of Education, three subjects, namely, transportation engineering, civil engineering, and environmental science and engineering, were rated as Class B subjects, and mechanical engineering was rated as Class B-.

For many years, the school's graduates have always maintained a high employment rate. Among the graduates, the proportion of those who signed contracts with state-owned enterprises remained above 75%, and about 45% of the students signed contracts with Fortune 500 companies such as China Railway Construction Corporation, China Railway Group, and China Communications Construction Corporation. The quality of graduate employment ranks among the top universities in the province. The school has successively won the honorary titles of "National Advanced Collective for Graduate Employment of Ordinary Colleges and Universities" and "National 50 Typical Experience Universities for Graduate Employment".

The school has always adhered to the fine tradition of "rigorous scholarship and strict requirements" of the University of Transportation, and has focused on cultivating senior professionals with solid foundation, broad knowledge, strong ability, high quality, innovative spirit and international vision. It was awarded "excellent" in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education in 2005, and was praised by experts from the Ministry of Education in the review and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education in 2017. The school implements the spirit of the National Education Conference and the National Postgraduate Education Conference, and deeply promotes the first-class undergraduate major improvement project. The school's postgraduate training scale has been steadily increasing, forming a classification training pattern for academic degree and professional degree postgraduates, and the quality of talent training has been steadily improved. Actively carry out innovation and entrepreneurship practice activities such as "Internet + Youth Red Dream Journey", "Challenge Cup", "Mathematical Modeling", "Structural Design", "Mechanical Innovation Design", "Robots", "Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Cup" and college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training program projects. In the past five years, it has won 562 national awards in various disciplines at all levels, and a total of 159 national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training program projects have been approved. In 2017, it was selected as a "demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform" and a "national college practice education innovation and entrepreneurship base". Over the past 64 years, the school has trained more than 200,000 outstanding talents represented by Lai Yuanming, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Wang Shi, the former chairman of the board of directors of Vanke Group, for the national transportation industry and local economic construction and development. Our graduates are skilled in business and strong in ability, and they can be retained and used, and have been widely praised by employers.

The school has always adhered to the cooperation between industry, academia and research, and actively served the national and local economic development. It has formed core technologies and advantageous industries in civil structures, environmental protection, information engineering, automatic control, intelligent transportation, logistics management, equipment manufacturing, green energy, and natural disaster prevention. Some research results have reached international advanced and domestic first-class levels. It has participated in the research and construction of many major railway projects such as the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway, and Lanzhou-Chongqing Railway. It is the earliest university in the country to undertake scientific research projects on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. It has solved the world's permafrost problem of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and won the National Science and Technology Progress Special Award. There are 4 Yangtze River Scholars Innovation Teams of the Ministry of Education, such as "Research on Durability of Materials and Structures in Dry and Cold Areas of Northwest China", 3 national scientific research platforms such as "National Green Coating Technology and Equipment Engineering Technology Research Center", 10 provincial and ministerial key laboratories such as "Railway Four Electric BIM and Intelligent Application Railway Key Laboratory" and "Gansu Yellow River Water Environment Key Laboratory", and the number of provincial and ministerial and above scientific research platforms has reached 69.

In the past five years, the school has established the Yellow River Water Environment Research Institute and Changzhou Research Institute around national strategies such as ecological civilization construction and high-speed rail construction. In the past five years, the university has undertaken 1,031 vertical scientific research projects and more than 4,273 horizontal scientific research projects. It has won 52 scientific and technological achievements awards at the provincial and ministerial levels or above, including 1 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 4 first prizes of Gansu Science and Technology Progress Award, and 1 second prize of the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions.

The school actively carries out foreign exchanges and cooperation. It has signed a counterpart support agreement with Tianjin University and has carried out fruitful cooperation in doctoral student training, scientific research, and faculty team building. It has established long-term cooperative relations with more than 50 colleges and universities in more than 20 countries and regions such as the United States, Britain, France, Russia, Canada, Japan, Spain, and Brazil. Since 2003, it has carried out a 2+2 dual degree cooperative joint school-running project with Iowa State University in the United States. The school has been authorized by the China International Chinese Education Foundation to jointly build a Confucius Institute with the University of Seville in Spain, which has a 500-year history of running schools. It has the qualification to recruit international students with Chinese government scholarships, and has passed the first batch of quality certification for higher education institutions studying in China. There are currently 231 international students from 42 countries and regions. The school actively serves the "Belt and Road" initiative and the "Strong Transportation Country" strategy. It is a member of the "Belt and Road University Strategic Alliance" and the "China-Russia Transportation University Alliance". It has carried out in-depth cooperation and exchanges with "Belt and Road" countries and universities such as Russia, North Macedonia, Kazakhstan, and Laos, and has trained more than 1,600 international talents in the fields of transportation, information, and infrastructure construction for more than 20 countries along the "Belt and Road".

64 years of ups and downs, 64 years of spring and autumn, from the first day of its establishment, the school has shouldered the historical mission of "building railways in the northwest and training senior railway professionals", always breathing with the motherland and sharing the fate of transportation. Generations of Lanzhou Jiaotong University have taken root in the northwest, persevered in changes, developed in inheritance, and created a characteristic development path of higher education in the west that is worthy of history and worthy of the times! Facing the future, the school will not forget its original intention, keep its mission in mind, uphold the school spirit of "striving for progress, hard work, diligent study, and rigorous scholarship" and the school motto of "morality, inspiration, erudition, and practice", and unswervingly follow the path of high-quality connotation development, and strive to build the school into a high-level university with more distinct regional advantages and school characteristics, and more outstanding innovative development capabilities in serving Gansu's economy, society, and rail transit industry! Make new and greater contributions to the development of the motherland's transportation industry and to building a happy and beautiful new Gansu!

(Data updated to April 2022)