Beijing Jiaotong University

beijing jiaotong university (bjtu) is a national key university of china. her predecessor is beijing railway management training institute and beijing school of posts and telecommunications, set up by ministry of posts and telecommunications of qing dynasty. in 1921, the school merged with two industrial technical schools in shanghai and tangshanto form the national jiaotong university, with three branch universities in beijing, shanghai and tangshan respectively. bjtu was then called as beijing campus of national jiaotong university. after the founding of the people’s republic of china in october 1st 1949, bjtu was re-named as northern jiaotong university (njtu) by the state council. chairman mao zedong appointed academician mao yisheng, a nationally renowned expert in bridge engineering, as the first president of njtu. in 1951, chairman mao zedong autographed the name of the university. 1981, bjtu became one of the first key universities authorized by the central government to confer