Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics was founded in October 1952 and is one of the first batch of aviation colleges and universities founded by New China. In 1978, it was designated as a national key university by the State Council; in 1981, it was approved by the State Council to become one of the first batch of universities in the country with the right to confer doctoral degrees; in 1996, it entered the national "211 Project" construction; in 2000, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to establish a graduate school; in 2011, it became a key construction university of the "985 Project Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform"; in 2017, it entered the national "Double First-Class" construction sequence, and the current three disciplines of aerospace science and technology, mechanics, and control science and engineering were selected in the second round of "first-class discipline" construction list. The school is now affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In December 2012 and April 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Civil Aviation Administration of China signed agreements 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. In the course of more than 70 years of running the school, the people of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have adhered to the school-running tradition of "serving the country through aviation", followed the fine school spirit of "unity, frugality, pragmatism and innovation", and practiced the school motto of "wisdom for all things, morality for the world", and have been forging ahead in the face of wind and rain, constantly promoting the leapfrog development of the school. At present, the school has developed into a high-level research university with engineering as the main focus, combining science and engineering, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as engineering, science, economics, management, and liberal arts, with the characteristics of aerospace and civil aviation. The school currently has 20 colleges and 220 scientific research institutions, and has built 10 national scientific research platforms such as the National Key Laboratory of Aerospace Structural Mechanics and Control and the National Key Laboratory of Helicopter Dynamics, 1 National Defense Science and Technology Industry Innovation Center, 1 Provincial and Ministerial Cooperative Innovation Center, 1 National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory, 2 National Engineering Basic Course Teaching Bases, 1 National Basic Discipline Outstanding Student Training Base, and 4 National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers. There are 66 undergraduate majors, 32 first-level master's degree authorization points, 17 first-level doctoral degree authorization points, 4 doctoral professional degree authorization categories, 16 master's professional degree authorization categories, and 17 postdoctoral mobile stations. There are 2 national key disciplines in the first-level disciplines of aerospace science and technology and mechanics, 9 national key disciplines in the second-level disciplines, 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines, and 10 national defense specialty disciplines. The school currently uses three campuses: Ming Palace, Jiangjun Road, and Tianmu Lake, covering an area of 3,046 acres and a building area of 1.893 million square meters. The school library has a collection of more than 3.168 million printed documents, 170 Chinese and foreign databases, and more than 13.66 million volumes of various electronic and digital document information resources. There are 3,708 faculty and staff, including 2,321 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, there are 1,603 with senior professional titles, 650 doctoral supervisors, 35 academicians, foreign academicians and "Qian Weichang Chair Professors", 107 other national high-level talents, 152 national young talents, and nearly 1,000 people selected for various talent programs at the provincial and ministerial levels. There are 38,889 students (including 19,485 undergraduates, 18,586 postgraduates, and 818 degree students). The school has become an important base for the cultivation of high-level talents. Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 190,000 senior professionals of various types for the country. Among the alumni, there are 25 academicians of the two academies, dozens of provincial and ministerial party and government leading cadres and generals, as well as a large number of famous science and technology experts and management experts. The school is committed to cultivating social pillars and engineering talents with a sense of responsibility, innovative spirit, international vision, and humanistic feelings, constantly promoting education and teaching reforms, and gradually establishing an innovative talent training system with the characteristics of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and has achieved a number of high-level teaching results. A total of 26 national teaching achievement awards have been won; 48 national first-class undergraduate courses, 11 national high-quality resource sharing courses, and 6 national high-quality video open courses; 6 national excellent teaching teams; 37 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 6 national characteristic majors, 8 key majors of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 5 national defense key majors, and 3 in-demand majors (directions). Students of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have achieved a number of remarkable results in various competitions at all levels: in the past five China International "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competitions, a total of 32 gold medals and 24 silver medals were won, and the total number ranked among the top three universities in the country. In the "Challenge Cup" National College Students' Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition, a total of 15 special prizes, 25 first prizes, and 16 second prizes were won, and the "Champion Cup" was won for 11 consecutive sessions. In the "Challenge Cup" China College Students' Entrepreneurship Plan Competition, a total of 26 gold medals and 10 silver medals were won, and the "Champion Cup" has been won for five consecutive sessions since 2014. In the International Drone Grand Prix, it won the special prize for four consecutive times. In the "Zhou Peiyuan Cup" National College Student Mechanics Competition, the "China Software Cup" National College Student Software Design Competition, the Electronic Design Competition, the Mechanical Innovation Design Competition and other competitions, students of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have repeatedly won the championship. The school's scientific research capabilities continue to increase. Since its establishment, the school has won 1,791 scientific and technological achievement awards at the ministerial and provincial levels or above, including 82 national awards, and has contributed several firsts to the Republic, including my country's first unmanned large target drone, the first unmanned nuclear test sampling machine, the first plateau unmanned drone, the first unmanned helicopter, the first micro-aircraft, etc. The independently developed "Tianxun-1" microsatellite was successfully launched. In the field of basic research, the school has achieved a number of theoretical achievements with important influence at home and abroad, such as "Generalized Eddy Current Theory of Helicopters", "Nonlinear Dynamics Theory of Vibration Control Systems", and "Aircraft Manufacturing Coordination Accuracy and Tolerance Allocation Theory". In the field of national defense science and technology, the school has participated in the pre-research, technical research and experimental research of almost all important aviation models in my country. Many technologies have been successfully applied in aerospace projects such as the "Chang'e" series, making important contributions to the development of my country's aerospace industry. In the field of national economy, the school focuses on major national strategic deployments, actively promotes cooperation between government, industry, academia and research, promotes the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and builds an achievement transformation model of "International Innovation Port + School-Local Research Institute + Joint Laboratory + Technology Transfer Institution". It has been approved as a national technology transfer demonstration institution, a national intellectual property demonstration university, and a base for the transformation and technology transfer of scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities, providing strong support for economic and social development. The school vigorously promotes open education, actively carries out collaborative innovation, and has established a number of industry-university-research cooperation research bases; it has carried out extensive international exchanges and cooperation, and has established long-term and stable cooperative relations with more than 200 famous universities and well-known research institutions abroad, forming a new open education pattern of "serving aerospace and civil aviation, serving Jiangsu, facing the whole country and the world". Follow the example of Xihe driving the celestial horse and aim to herd the stars in the sky. Entering the new era, NPU will fully implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guide, and under the leadership of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Government, persist in cultivating talents for the Party and building important tools for the country, and adhere to the path of strengthening characteristics, strengthening the school with talents, driving innovation, deepening opening up, and guiding culture. We will forge ahead with determination, forge ahead, and unswervingly strive towards the goal of becoming a world-class university with distinctive characteristics in aerospace and civil aviation, and make new and greater contributions to the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!
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