East China Jiaotong University as one of the renowned multi-disciplinary and comprehensive universities in China, focuses on railway-related disciplines and features the transportation engineering. ECJTU was affiliated to the Railway Ministry of China, and in 2000, the university was reformed to be “co-sponsored by both central and provincial governments, but mainly under the administration of the latter”. Through many years' unremitting efforts, under priority construction in Jiangxi Province, ECJTU has grown into a provincially key university and one nationally accredited institution offering doctoral degree programs.

ECJTU is located in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province，China, a city which has a long history of culture. Nestling near a mountain and besides a river, with a few lakes dotted inside, the campus is a wonderful place for teaching, learning and living, with birds chorusing, flowers blooming and trees exuberantly creating a landscape. ECJTU covers an area of nearly 3000 mu (200 hectares), the area of buildings of all kinds exceeds 700,000 square meters in total, and the value of equipment for teaching and scientific research amounts to 350 million Yuan. The university library, as a first-class Chinese retrieval station for academic journals and documents, has a collection of over 2.03 million volumes of books and journals, and over 2.33 million volumes of electronic documents.

ECJTU offers a complete range of disciplines, including science, engineering, economics, management, literature, law, education, art, etc. ECJTU is composed of 17 schools, offering 2 doctoral programs of the first-rank disciplines, 17 master’s programs of the first-rank disciplines, and over 60 undergraduate programs. At present, the university has more than 23,000 registered students, 1700 staff and faculty members, including more than 530 professors and associate professors. The university boasts over 80 members respectively nominated or selected as candidates of “the New Century Hundred, Thousand and Ten-Thousand Talent Project” and “National Excellent Teachers” at the state level, “the Program for New Century Excellent Talents” of the Ministry of Education, “Young and Middle-aged Leading Talents in Science Technology” of the Ministry of Science and Technology, talents enjoying special allowance of the State Council, and provincially distinguished professors of “Jingangshan Scholars” , etc.