Xi’an Jiaotong University
| 西安交通大学 | |
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| Motto | 精勤求学，敦笃励志，果毅力行，忠恕任事 |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1896 |
| President | Wang Shuguo 王树国 |
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Academic staff
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5583 |
| Students | 32,000 |
| Location |
Xi'an, Shaanxi,  People's Republic of China34°14′50″N 108°58′45″E / 34.24722°N 108.97917°ECoordinates: 34°14′50″N 108°58′45″E / 34.24722°N 108.97917°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | C9 |
| Website | en.xjtu.edu.cn |
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| Simplified Chinese | 西安交通大学 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 西安交通大學 | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Xī'ān Jiāotōng Dàxué |
Xi'an Jiaotong University (abbreviated XJTU) is a Chinese C9 League university with strengths in engineering, technology, management, and public health located in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. XJTU's twenty schools comprise a comprehensive research university offering programs in nine areas: science, engineering, medicine, economics, management, art, law, philosophy and education. XJTU houses five national key laboratories, four national special laboratories, and two national engineering research centers. XJTU's eight affiliated teaching hospitals include two ranked in China's top 100. The university is the hub of the University Alliance of the Silk Road, an international academic alliance under the umbrella of the People's Republic of China's One Belt, One Road initiative that aims to build educational collaboration and fuel economic growth in countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt and key partners worldwide.
XJTU began in Shanghai in 1896 as the Nanyang Public School (南洋公学) through an imperial edict issued by the Guangxu Emperor, under the Business and Telegraphs Office of the imperial government. Four schools were established: a normal school, a school of foreign studies, a middle school, and a high school. Sheng Xuanhuai, the mandarin responsible for proposing the idea to the Guangxu Emperor, became the first president and is regarded as the founder of the university, with the assistance of John Calvin Ferguson, a missionary educator.
The university underwent a series of transitions. In 1904, the Ministry of Commerce took over the school, and in 1905 changed its name to Imperial Polytechnic College of the Commerce Ministry. In 1906, the college was placed under the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs, and its name was changed to Shanghai Industrial College of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. When the Republic of China was founded, the college was placed under the Ministry of Communications and its name was once again changed, this time to Government Institute of Technology of the Communications Ministry.
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