Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Astronautics (hereinafter referred to as China Southern Airlines) is a comprehensive national key university directly under the Ministry of industry and information technology of the people's Republic of China, which has the characteristics of aviation, aerospace and civil aviation, and mainly focuses on science and engineering; it is a national "world-class discipline construction university", a national "211 Project" and "985 project advantage discipline innovation platform" key construction university, and is selected into the national "111 plan" and zhuoyuegong He is a member of the Sino Russian Jiaotong University Alliance, including the Cheng teacher education and training plan, the national construction high-level university public postgraduate program, the new engineering research and practice program, the Chinese government scholarship receiving institutions for international students in China, the national innovation and entrepreneurship education reform demonstration universities, and the National College students' cultural quality education base.The predecessor of the university is Nanjing aviation industry college, which was founded on the basis of 511 factory in October 1952. It is one of the first batch of aviation colleges founded by the people's Republic of China. In 1978, it was designated as a national key university by the State Council. In 1981, it was approved by the State Council as one of the first batch of universities with the right to confer doctor's degree in China. In December 2012, the Ministry of industry and information technology and Civil Aviation Administration of China NASA signed an agreement to jointly build Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In December 2018, the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of education and Jiangsu Province jointly built Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.As of January 2019, the school has two campuses, the Ming Palace Museum and the Jiangjun Road, covering an area of 2077 Mu and a construction area of 1148000 square meters. The library has a collection of more than 2.78 million printed documents and more than 11.2 million electronic and digital documents and information resources. It has 16 Colleges, 58 undergraduate specialties, 3131 teaching staff, 11 academicians and double employed academicians, and more than 29000 full-time students, Among them, there are more than 18000 undergraduate students, more than 10000 graduate students, more than 1000 degree students and nearly 5000 adult education students.