Located in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, East China Jiaotong University is a teaching and research-oriented university with the coordinated development of economics, management, arts, science, law, education, art and other disciplines. It is characterized by transportation and centered on rail transit. It is a key university of Jiangxi Province. It is a University jointly built by China National Railway Corporation, state railway administration and Jiangxi Provincial People's government, and has been selected as a central and Western University The basic ability construction project, the Ministry of education excellent engineer education and training plan, Jiangxi first-class discipline construction university, has been rated as the National Graduate Employment typical experience university, the national innovation and entrepreneurship typical experience university, the national deepening innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform Model University, is the national recruitment and selection of reserve officers contracted University, the National College Students' cultural quality education base, the national innovation and entrepreneurship education reform model university Family level intellectual property training base, member of Sino Russian Jiaotong University Alliance and China ASEAN rail transit education and Training Alliance.In 1971, the State Council and the Central Military Commission decided to merge the locomotive and rolling stock Department of Shanghai Jiaotong University and the railway engineering major of Tongji University into Shanghai Railway College, renamed East China Jiaotong University, and moved to Jiangxi. In 1978, East China Jiaotong University and Shanghai Railway Institute continued to run their own schools. The school was originally under the Ministry of railways. In 2000, it was transformed into "central and local co construction, with local management as the main".As of May 2019, the University covers an area of 2816 mu, with a building area of 798000 square meters; the library has 2.29 million paper books and 2.33 million electronic documents; there are 18 colleges; 50 undergraduate majors participate in the enrollment in 2019; there are 1 post doctoral research workstation, 1 post doctoral research mobile station, 1 academician workstation, 3 first-class discipline doctoral programs, 21 first-class discipline master programs; and There are 2 master's programs in secondary disciplines, 11 professional degree categories and 12 engineering master's fields; there are nearly 2000 teaching staff, including more than 1200 full-time teachers; there are more than 23200 full-time students, including more than 2700 doctoral and master's students.