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    Located in Nanjing's ancient capital, Nanjing University, and its predecessors have taken responsibility for the country and the nation during its development of over 100 years. Committed to the nation's prosperity and the advancement of science, Nanjing University makes significant contributions to the revitalization of China.
    Especially since the Reform and Opening-up, Nanjing University has seized this historic opportunity and gained vitality. Maintaining good momentum in teaching, research, social service, and cultural inheritance and innovation, Nanjing University ranks among the top of China's universities.
    Based on cultivating talents, Nanjing University has nurtured excellence for the nation during different historical stages. They have made remarkable contributions and achievements in different fields. At present, Nanjing University is going on with reform of innovative talents training mechanism and striving to cultivate leading and top-notch innovative talents equipped with creativity, practical ability, and global perspective ready to lead the way in all sectors of society.
    The predecessor of Nanjing University was renowned for its scientific achievements. An emphasis on investigation and seeking truth have run through the history of its development and became the essential characteristic of this university. Generations of NJUers have worked diligently and made numerous excellent scientific achievements, gaining a reputation in national and international academic circles. Guided by the principle of "carrying out fundamental research which leads the international academia, carrying out applied research which meets the national strategic demands and makes for economic development, and remaining committed to solving major theoretical and practical issues concerning the national interest and people's livelihood," Nanjing University is striving to adjust the layout of scientific research, strengthen scientific research organizations, and comprehensively improve the ability and level of original research to develop Nanjing University into an important scientific research center in China.
    It has established close collaborations with many first-class universities and high-level scientific research institutions around the world. Among them is the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, which was established in the 1980s, has been successfully run for over 30 years. The program has produced many backbone talents for Sino-US relations and exerted a notable influence both at home and abroad. In this new age of international relations, Nanjing University is pushing ahead with wide-ranging and multiple international communication and cooperation projects to promote education internationalization.
    Nanjing University has now entered into its second hundred years of development. All numbers will maintain a high spirit and a low profile to thoroughly carry out the instruction of "the First Nanjing University" proposed by President Xi Jinping. Focusing on the connotative development and features of Nanjing University, let us make arduous efforts to build NJU into a world-class university early and make more significant contributions to the Chinese nation's great rejuvenation!
    It is such a fine tradition and spirit that allows the university to establish itself in the growth of the Chinese and world civilization, enrich its cultural heritage and nurture honest, persistent, and self-reliant students. Since its establishment over a hundred years ago, Nanjing University has maintained its youthful vigor and made various undertakings. It has made remarkable achievements in talent training, scientific research, social work, and academic exchanges and has made indelible contributions to China's scientific, cultural, and educational undertakings.
    "Sincerity" is the most original part of the traditional spirit of Nanjing University. It means honesty, earnestness, and simpleness, with honesty being the core and root. Learning with sincerity means seeking truth from facts and being rigorous and diligent in pursuing truth. Only in this way can we make real achievements in learning and shoulder rejuvenating the Chinese nation.
    "Aspiration," asks for grandeur and greatness. It urges us to be ambitious in "doing big things" and to foster the spirit of fearlessness. Both our teachers and students should have a sense of responsibility and a sense of calling to link our own goals with the needs of our country's development and the progress of human civilization.
    Only through down-to-earth practice can we fulfill ourselves and show others what we know and who we are.
    Situated in Nanjing's old capital city, Nanjing University (NJU) has a one-hundred-year-long history and enjoys high prestige. It evolved from Sanjiang Normal School (established in 1902) to Liangjiang Normal School, to Nanjing Higher Normal School, to National Southeastern University, to National Fourth Sun Yat-sen University, to National Central University, to National Nanjing University, and finally to Nanjing University in 1950. In the nationwide restructuring of universities and colleges in 1952, NJU was integrated with Jinling University and retained its name Nanjing University. The university then moved from Sipailou to Gulou, where Jinling College used to be.
    At present, NJU has three campuses: Xianlin Campus, Gulou Campus, and Pukou Campus. With 28 schools under the university's direct supervision, the number of students in 2016 is 32,999 in total, including 13,583 undergraduates, 10,865 master students, 5,335 doctoral 3,216 full-time international students. The university boasts a faculty made up of the most accomplished scholars in China, many great disciplines, and many important national and provincial research platforms.
    Over the past century, centering on educating men and women, NJU has, in different historical periods, cultivated and turned out many talents who have made enormous contributions and achievements in their respective fields. Since the Reform and Opening-up, the university has explored many different reform methods in teaching and education. It has brought up many critical educational ideas and teaching theories, which have significantly influenced higher education at home and abroad.
    At present, NJU has set up the goal of "doing the best in undergraduate education," adhering to the education idea of "integrating the disciplinary building with undergraduate teaching, liberal education with personal cultivation, foundation broadening with practice deepening, and learning to learn with learning to be a citizen." The university keeps deepening the reform of cultivating creative talents and fostering leading figures and outstanding talents with creativity, practical ability, and a global vision for all life walks in society.
    NJU's predecessors were known for their science. The scientific spirit and the tradition of studying nature and pursuing truth have existed throughout NJU's development and remain the most prominent character of its teaching and education. Generations of NJU faculty and students have worked hard unremittingly for the nation and people, making research achievements renowned in academia at home and abroad.
    Today, NJU follows the principle of "strengthening applied subjects, focusing on foundation subjects, developing frontier subjects, and enhancing interdisciplinary cooperation" and the principle of "orienting basic research towards the international forefront of academia, and orienting applied research towards national strategic needs and the country's economic construction to solve important theoretical and practical problems related to the well-being of the nation and people." It is readjusting its research layout and reinforcing its research organization to enhance the overall level and capacity for original research and building itself into an important research center in China.
    Since the founding of the university in the early 20th century, NJU has been among the most active universities in carrying out international communication and cooperation and has built close relationships with many first-class universities and research institutes worldwide. One example is the 30-year-long Center for Chinese and American Studies jointly administered by Nanjing University and Johns Hopkins University, China's earliest long-term international cooperation program since the Reform and Opening-up. The center has fostered many pillar scholars for cultural communication between China and America, exerting enormous influence at home and abroad. In today's new historical conditions, NJU is vigorously promoting international communication and cooperation in multiple fields and through multiple channels, raising its teaching to the international standards in every aspect.
    Today, NJU has entered a new century of its history. Under the guiding spirit of President Xi Jinping's instruction on "the first Nanjing University," the university will focus on the development of its inner quality and give full play to its characteristics. It will strive to make itself into a first-class university worldwide to make more significant contributions to the revitalization of the Chinese nation.

    Nanjing University
    Founding year: 1902
    Website: Visit Website
    Number of students: 32999
    Genders Accepted: Mixed (Co-education)
    Leadership: Dr. Chen Jun (President)
    Number of staff: 2180
    Type: Universities
    Address: 22 Hankou RoadNanjing University, No. 22 Hankou Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, 210093, China



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