Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) is a key university under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education of China and is one of the oldest universitiesin China. The predecessor of Xi'an Jiaotong University was Nanyang College, which was founded in 1896 in Shanghai and renamed Jiaotong University in 1921. In 1956, the main part of Jiaotong University was relocated to Xi'an according to the decision of the State Council, and this relocated part of JiaotongUniversity was later officially renamed Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1959. In 2000, approved by the State Council, the former Xi'an Medical University and former Shaanxi Institute of Finance and Economics were merged with Xi'an Jiaotong University. XJTU, as one of the first batch of the universities in China, was supported by the central Government at the seventh and eighth five-year plan, as well as China's “Project 211” and “Project 985” to develop into a world-class university. Now, Xi’an Jiaotong University is on the List of World-class Universities and First-class Disciplines (abbreviated as “Double First-class”) released in 2017 by the Ministry of Education of China, as a Double First-class universityin Category A, which means that the government will support it financially to develop into a world-class university, and its eight disciplines into the first-class level in the world.

Currently, XJTU is a comprehensive research university with 10 major categories of disciplines: science, engineering, medicine, economics, management, humanities, law, philosophy, education and art, and 27 schools, 9 university colleges for undergraduates and 19 affiliated teaching hospitals. The University has a faculty and staff of 5,982 people including 3,072 full-time teachers, of whom 35 are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and/or the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 6 Nationally Distinguished Teachers,  92 distinguished professors on Chang Jiang Scholars Program and other programs, 40 recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 23 National Experts with Outstanding Contributions, 28 scholars who are enlisted in the National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project and the New Century National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Project, 29 scholars who won the support as Innovation Team leaders, 234 scholars who won the Support Program for New Century Excellent Talents administered by the Ministry of Education, and 511 experts who have made outstanding contributions to the nation and receivethe State Council Special Allowance.

XJTU now has 38,103 full-time students, including 18,919 postgraduates.The university offers 82 undergraduate majors, and there are 31 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctorate degrees, and there are 45 first-level disciplines and 4 second-level disciplines (which were not included in any first-level discipline) authorized to confer master’s degrees, and 2 disciplines authorized to confer professional doctorate degrees, 22 disciplines authorized to confer professional master’s degrees, and there are 25 post-doctoral research stations. There are 8 state-level key first-leveldisciplines, 8 state-level key second-level disciplines, and 3 state-level key (nurtured to develop) second-level disciplines. It has 5 national key laboratories, 6 National Engineering Technology Research Centers, 3 National Engineering Laboratories, 5 International Science & Technology Cooperation Base, and 1Collaborative Innovation Center (2011). And there are Western China Energy Research Institute, Western China Institute of Quality Science and Technology, 115 key research facilities at the provincial and ministerial level. According to the data released by Essential Science Indicators (ESI), 2 disciplines ofXJTUare ranked top 1⁰/₀₀on the ESI list, 14 disciplines of XJTU are ranked top 1% on the ESI list up to March, 2018.

During its more than 120-year history, Xi'an Jiaotong University has upheld the principles of developing education to make China strong, pioneering with painstaking efforts, advocating virtues and pragmatism, seeking meticulous scholarship, and pursuing excellence. It has developed such fine traditions as loving China and the University, seeking after the truth, working steadily and conscientiously, hard-working and plain-living, and has formed a school running characteristic of higher starting point, more solid foundation, stricter requirements, and more emphasis in practice. XJTU's outstanding alumni include Zhang Yuanji, Cai Yuanpei, Cai E, Huang Yanpei, Zou Taofen, Lu Dingyi, Qian Xuesen, ZhangGuangdou, Wu Wenjun, Xu Guangxian, Jiang Zemin, Jiang Xinsong, Hou Zonglian, etc. Since being relocated to Xi'an, the University has turned out 32 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and/or the Chinese Academy of Engineering, including Li Bohu, Li Helin, Ye Shangfu, Chen Guoliang, Lei Qingquan, Xiong Youlun, Su Junhong, Sun Jiulin,Chen Guilin, Cheng Shijie, Sun Caixin, Han Qide, Tan Tieniu, Cong Bin, Hao Yue, Jiang Song, Fang Jiancheng, Wang Huaming, Tang Guangfu, Guo Wanlin, etc. and overseas academicians such as the National Academy of Engineering of the United States and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, including Gao Huajian, Suo Zhigang, Jiang Jing, Liu Yilu, Liang Ping and Chen Zhangxing, etc. XJTU has graduated 250,000 students since 1956 with a good reputation in the past 62 years, and there are a number of famous XJTU alumni including Jiang Zhenghua, Zhang Fuan, Chen Huibo, Zhang Yupu, Wen Xisen, Ma Dexiu, Cui Dianguo, YaoYinliang, Sun Laiyan, Zhang Guobao, Jia Quanxi, Wang Yu, Lian Weiliang, Wen Shugang, Xiang Bing,Long Xingyuan, Wang Jianping, Jiang Xiaojuan, Pu Zhongjie, Yu Jie, Zhang Yuee, Gui Shengyue, Lu Lei, Zhao Huan, Qiu Jianping, Li Renchao, Hu Huaibang, Zhou Hongyi, Chen Xi, Li Shousheng, Zheng Haitao, Lu Yiming, Fan Deng, Liu Liehong, Wang Dongfeng, Liu Qi, etc.

XJTU has fully implemented the ideas of "cultivation in conduct, impartation of knowledge, training in abilities, innovation in thinking" in the cultivation of talents, and established the system of "general education plus professional education with wide-ranged knowledge" and "Undergraduate - Postgraduate - Doctoral Students" through-type talentcultivation mode. In 2006, XJTU took the lead among Chinese universities to create a system of university colleges modeled on the traditional Chinese academy of learning. This twin-college system is aimed at giving our students the best possible chance for success. In 2017, XJTU set up the Undergraduate School to carry out the three-level administrative mode of "University - School - Department", and set up a management system for undergraduate talents training of "collaboration, connection, coordination between teaching and educating." Based on the Qian Xuesen School, XJTU applies Qian Xuesen's spirit and wisdom to teaching practice to explore new mechanism for cultivating innovative talents, and has established top talent training trial classes including the “Exceptionally Gifted Juveniles Class”, "Qian Xuesen Trial Class", "Zonglian Trial Class", "Trial Classes for Talents of Basic Subject", etc. XJTU has received endorsement from students and parents for its unique educational model, its favorable study environment, excellent teachers and substantial teaching resources, and its positive satisfactory teaching results. So far, XJTU has won 67 national-level awards for excellence in teaching, upgraded 35 courses to be the National-level Quality Courses, 23 to be the National-level Quality-Resources-Sharing Courses, 11 National-level Video Open Courses, 12 National-level Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers, and 9 National-level Teaching Teams. To date, 27 XJTU student dissertations have won an award as “China's 100 best doctoral dissertations”; another 46 have been nominated for that award.

Research in science and technology at XJTU is directed primarily at satisfying the country’s most important needs, forging into international frontiers, enhancing the technological competitiveness of China. Since 2000, researchers from XJTU have led 21 research projects supported by “Program 973”, and 4,830 research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Its total number of basic research projects and grants obtained rank XJTU among top Chinese universities. XJTU has won 61 national level awards for research in science and technology as the first author, among which 7 XJTU achievements won 2017 National Science and Technology Awards, making XJTU rank the second among colleges and universities in China in terms of the number of awards. To produce these results, XJTU relies on its strength in key disciplines and on its unique educational model, with its emphasis in the integration of production, study and research. In addition, in cooperation with the government and with large and mid-sized enterprises, it has established research and development parks whose aim is to help solve the key technological problems facing industries and to strengthen the contributions of science and technology to the regional economy and of local social development. Since 2000, researchers from XJTU have undertaken 23 major projects supported by National Social Science Foundation, and have won 21 Excellent Research Achievement Awards (Humanities and Social Sciences) of the Ministry of Education.A total of 10 high-end think tanks have been established collaborated with National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce, and a large number of research results have been adopted.

Xi'an Jiaotong University advocates "patriotism, collectivism, heroism and optimism", the mission culture that aims to give service to the country, the culture that pursues excellence, the culture that pioneers in innovation and blaze new trails, the culture that teams and collaborates with each other. XJTU owns a National-level Base for Cultural Education and boasts 230 student organizations. It sponsors a rich and varied set of activities in science and technology, literature and the arts, and sports. “Talking Freely about the World,” “Famous Experts of China,” “Siyuan Lectures” and “Learning Forum” have become well-known events from which students can expand their field of horizon. In recent years, XJTU students have won awards in a wide range of competitions, including SAE Aero Design Competition, VEX Robotics Competition, International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, the World Mandarin Debating Championship, International English Speech Contest, the World Architecture Design Competition for University Students, Asian Area Selection Match for ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, China College Students’ “Internet plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, “Challenge Cup” National University Student Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Work Competition,“Create in the Youth Years” China College Students’ Entrepreneurship Competition, Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, National College Mechanical Innovation Competition, China University Robot Competition (Robocon),China Undergraduate Physics Tournament, National Aviation and Space Model (research- type) Tournament, National University Student Social Practice and Science Contest on Energy Saving & Emission Reduction,etc.

Xi'an Jiaotong University has established extensive internationalties. Since 2000, 15 Nobel laureates, 1 Fields Prize winner and over 2,000 foreign professors have visited XJTU and gave lectures. XJTU also exchanged or established cooperation relations with over 20,000 scholars, CEOs, and high-level government officials from around the world or developed other kinds of collaborative projects. More than 28,000 XJTU teachers and students have been abroad to visit, study, do research, or participate in degree programs, and over 2,000 faculty members, and researchers have traveled abroad for conferences. XJTU has had relations and exchanges with 165 universities and research institutions in 42 countries and regions, including the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and Korea. In 2017, there are 2,400 foreign students from over 132 countries studying at XJTU.

Xi'an Jiaotong University has three campuses: the Xingqing campus, the Yanta campus, and the Qujiang campus, covering a total area of about 2 million square meters. The total constructed area is 2.0385 million squaremeters. The “Qian Xuesen Library,” named after alumnus Qian Xuesen, which is authorized by CPC Publicity Department, is located on the Xingqing campus, covering nearly 40 thousand square meters and has 3,518 reading seats. The library collections include 5.44 million books and over 10,000 newspapers andperiodicals, of which over 2,000 types are current periodicals. The library has also been improving its digital collections, and has introduced 111 electronic resources at home and abroad and the total number of electronic resources amounts to 312. Its holdings now include 95,000 electronic periodicals and 1.6 million e-books in Chinese and foreign languages.

What’s more, Xi'an Jiaotong University now has a new development by which to make new contributions to our country, a new campus underconstruction, i.e., Western China Science & Technology Innovation Harbor, which covers a total area of about 3.33 million square meters. And there are 8 major research platforms and more than 100 scientific research bases in the Innovation Harbor which will serve the major scientific research in China including interdisciplinary research, military and civilian integration research, and other types of research.The harbor will better serve the cultivation of students' creativity, the commercialization and incubation of scientific and technological achievements and the development of economy and society, and here we can actively explore new models, new forms and new experiences of the integration of modern universities and social development in twenty-first Century. The Silk Road University Alliance, initiated by XJTU, has contributed to the common development of human civilization and the opening and cooperation of higher education. It has attracted more than 140 universities from 40 countries and regions, and has made efforts to create agroup of high-end think tanks, such as Collaborative Innovation Center of Pilot Reform Exploration and Assessment, Collaborative Innovation Research Center of the Silk Road Economic Belt, and so on, aiming at serving the social development and national rejuvenation, implementing the strategy of enhancing international competitiveness and promoting regional internationalization with educational internationalization.

On December 11, 2017, President Xi Jinping made important remarks about the letter to him from the 15 professors of Xi'an Jiaotong University who had moved to Xi’an from eastern China decades ago, and paid high tribute to the people who responded to the call of the central government and devoted themselves to the construction of the Northwestern China. He hoped that the teachers and students of XJTU would inherit the "Western Relocation Spirit" and contribute wisdom and energies to the development of Western China and the construction of the country. In 2018 New Year’s address of President Xi Jinping, he once again praised the veteran professors who moved to Xi’an following the relocation of the main body of Jiaotong University, pointing out that "happiness comes with hard work", and that they have made sacrifices for the good of the country without regrets or complaints, which touched him a lot.

In the new era, Xi'an Jiaotong University studies deeply and implements Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, focuses on the fundamental task of education, namely “upholding high moral values in student cultivation”, insists on the orientation of "taking root in western China, giving service to the country, and striving to be the world-class," pushing forward the comprehensive reform, "double first-class" construction, and concrete development with firm confidence, heroic spirit and great efforts, and strive to write a new chapter of the university development in the new era.

Motto:Study assiduously, resolve to succeed, act decisively, and manage affairs with magnanimity.

Orientation:Taking root in western China, giving service to the country, and striving to be world-class.

Western Relocation Spirit：Keep in mind the overall situation, work selflessly for our country, carry forward traditional culture, pioneer with painstaking efforts.

Mission: Xi'an Jiaotong University is committed to cultivating outstanding students who advocate pursue science, make practical innovations, work hard and steadily, and have noble-minded virtues and a strong sense of social responsibility, and to preserving, generating, and disseminating knowledge so as to contributeto science and technology advances, social development, and human civilizationin China and the world at large.

Vision: XJTU works hard to take the lead in student education, scientific research, and social service to achieve preeminence. By the middle of 21st century, we aim to make XJTU a world-class university, where prestigious teachers gather, talented students are charmed to attend, talents graduated from it in large numbers, the international influence is considerable.