Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT) has been selected in China’s Double First Class Project for building world-class universities and disciplines. Its predecessor was the Wartime Postal Administration Cadre Training Class located in Shandong Anti-Japanese Base, cultivating talents in communications systematically for the Communist Party of China and the country. In 1958, she was converted into Nanjing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications upon the approval of the State Council. In April 2005, she was officially renamed as Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. NJUPT adheres to the spirit of “Reaching out to the world while striving persistently for perfection”, follows through the motto of “morality, persistence, practicality and sincerity”, and lives out the ethos of “diligence, practicality, progression and innovation”. NJUPT is engineering-oriented with a focus on information technology, integrating such disciplines as science, engineering, economics, management, literature, education, art and law, and offers multi-layered educational programs leading to bachelor’s, master’s, and doctor’s degrees, as well as post-doctor’s positions. The university is located in Nanjing, a historically and culturally rich city, and owns four campuses, namely Xianlin campus, Sanpailou campus, Suojincun campus and Jiangning campus. NJUPT is comprised of 22 schools (departments, research centers, etc.).

NJUPT is well equipped with teaching and research facilities. Presently, it has one State-Local Joint Engineering Research Center; one State-Local Joint Engineering Lab; one State Key Lab Incubation Base jointly sponsored by Jiangsu Province and the MoE; one Key Lab jointly sponsored by Jiangsu Province and the MoE; two Engineering Research Centers of the MoE; two National Demonstration Center for Experiment Teaching; three National Virtual Simulation Centers for Experiment Teaching; two National Programs for Virtual Reality Experiments in Teaching; one National Education Center for Engineering Practice; one National Off-Campus Center for Practical Education; one National Science and Technology Entrepreneurial Practice Base for College Students; 11 Key Labs of the former Ministry of Information Industry. NJUPT Library owns a collection of over 2,500,000 paperback books, a good proportion of which concern such fields as information, telecommunications and electronics.

NJUPT has achieved remarkable results in producing talents and in the evaluation of the undergraduate education by the MoE. Over the years, NJUPT has been persistent in strengthening its education system in an effort to turn out graduates with solid basics, all-round qualities and competitive skills, and furthering educational reform. Accordingly, a distinctive talents training system has been built. In recent years, the university has raked in bounteous prizes of various calibers in this regard: one First Prize and two Second Prize of National Teaching Achievements; one National Quality Course; one National Demonstration Bilingual Course; one National Quality Course as Shared Resources; one MoE-Intel Quality Course; fifty one I-Course MOOC courses; ten National Quality Online Courses; two National Quality Textbooks; eight National “12th Five-year Plan” Textbooks; and one First Prize of University Campus Culture Construction Awards of MoE. Students of NJUPT have reaped major awards at the national level and above, including the “Sony Cup”, the top prize of the National Electronic Designing Competition for Undergraduates; the Renesas Cup; the Challenge Cup, Excellent Participant in National Extracurricular Academic, Scientific and Technological Work Competition for University Students; the SIAM award, the top prize in US Mathematical Contest in Modeling for College Students; the First Prize of China Mathematical Contest in Modeling for College Students, the First Prize of “Challenge Cup” National Extracurricular Academic, Scientific and Technological Work Competition for University Students, and the First Prize of China Robot Competition and Robocup Open. And since the beginning of the “12th Five-year Plan”, the undergraduates have brought home a total of 3437 prizes at the provincial or ministerial level and above. NJUPT has throughout its 70-year history trained and delivered over 240,000 elites of various professions for our country, with many now being leading figures, the technically savvy, and senior managers in IT industry and demography-related fields at home and abroad, earning itself the reputation of the “Cradle of China’s IT Talents”.

NJUPT has been a strong contributor in scientific and technological innovation and social services. Revolving around an innovation system that incorporates information material, information device, information network, information system and information application, the university has demonstrated particular competitiveness in such areas as New Generation Mobile Communication, Internet of Things, Mobile Network, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Organic Electronics and Information Display, Integrated Circuits and Micro-assembly, Smart Grids, Optical Communications, Intelligent Manufacturing, Modern Postal Services, and Demography. In the past three years, NJUPT has undertaken a total of 403 science and research projects at the national level and won 60 awards at the provincial or ministerial level and above. The university has published more than 2142 high-quality research papers. NJUPT has also strengthened her cooperation with local governments and corporations by establishing sixteen research institutes and 23 creation platforms jointly sponsored by NJUPT and enterprises. Building around its strong disciplines such as Telecommunication and IoT, NJUPT is fulfilling her duties of cultivating professionals, boosting scientific researches, and serving the society in the area of IoT. For the same purpose, the university has built a National University Science Park, a National Model Agency for Technological Transfer, a National Popular Science Communication Base, and three National Mass Innovation Spaces.

NJUPT actively promotes international exchange and cooperation. The university has been included in the Nation's University Innovation and Talent Recruitment Plan 2017 (briefly as 111 Plan). More than 500 overseas students from over 50 countries as Russia and The Republic of Kazakhstan are studying here for the Bachelor, Master and Doctorate degrees. Around 1000 international experts and scholars have visited, given lectures, or attended international conferences here. There are approximately 60 international student exchange programs. The university is cooperating with New York Institute of Technology to offer four joint undergraduate programs approved by the Ministry of Education. NJUPT also takes active participation in ITU-sponsored conferences, organizes training for APT (Asia-Pacific Tele-community) in China, and partakes in the formulation of relevant international standards in communication.

NJUPT, with a down-to-earth attitude and pioneering spirit, has identified a unique strategy for development, one that focuses on specialization in posts and telecommunications while reaching out to more sectors in the information society. The 19th CPC National Congress required that efforts be taken to ensure that “universities focus on teaching quality and strive for building first-class disciplines and institutions of higher education”. China is keen to push ahead the “Internet Plus” action plan, which gives NJUPT more space for development. Now the university is catching every opportunity to implement The Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for A New Era, realize the five visions, namely “strong feature, high level, multiple disciplines, teaching research, and internationalization”, and carry out the four strategies of “improving the university with quality, talent, features, and innovation”. NJUPT aims to forge ahead on the course of building world-class disciplines of electronic information science and engineering, with a view to presenting its unique strength in electronic information as a first-class university.