With a glorious tradition, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications has made remarkable contributions to the establishment and development of the People’s Republic of China. Its predecessor was Wartime Postal Administration Cadre Training Class of Shandong Anti-Japanese Base, which was established in 1942 and was one of the earliest schools of our Party and army for systematically training telecommunication talents. NUPT is on the province’s list of universities for prior development. In October 2013, NUPT incorporated Nanjing College for Population Program Management, according to the official documents issued by Ministry of Education and Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government. NUPT has so far developed into a university focusing on engineering, characterized by information technology, integrating such disciplines as science, engineering, economics, management and combining the educational programs leading to bachelor’s, master’s and doctor’s degrees. The university is located in Nanjing, a historical and cultural city, and owns four campuses: Xianlin campus, Sanpailou campus, Suojincun campus and Jiangning campus.

NUPT now runs 3 mobile post-doctoral stations, 3 first-level discipline doctorate programs, 14 second-level discipline doctorate programs, 10 first-level discipline master’s degree programs, 34 second-level discipline master’s degree programs, 13 Profession-oriented master’s degree programs (fields), and 53 undergraduate programs. Three programs of the university have made the world’s top 1% on the ranking by ESI.

The university now offers education to around a total of 30000 students.

NUPT is well equipped with teaching and research facilities. Presently, it has 1 State-Local Joint Engineering Research Center, 1 State Key Lab Incubation Base jointly sponsored by Jiangsu Province and the MoE; 1 Key Lab jointly sponsored by Jiangsu Province and the MoE; 2 Engineering Research Centers of the MoE; 8 Jiangsu Key Labs (Engineering); 4 Jiangsu Engineering Research Centers; 2 Jiangsu Higher Education Institute Key Research Bases of Philosophy and Social Sciences (including Incubation Programs); 2 Jiangsu Policy-making Consultancy Research Bases; 1 Jiangsu Statistical Science Research Base, 2 National Demonstration Center for Experiment Teaching; 2 National Virtual Simulation Experiment Teaching Center; 1 National Engineering Practice Education Centers; 1 National Off-Campus Practice Education Center; 1 National Science and Technology Entrepreneurial Practice Base for College Students; 1 Jiangsu Innovation Platform Enhancement Program; 11 Key Labs of the former Ministry of Information Industry; 16 Provincial Demonstration Centers for Experiment Teaching and Provincial Practice Education Centers; 62 Central Government Specially Funded Labs (including the ones co-sponsored by the Central and Jiangsu Governments), 120 Jiangsu Corporate Workstations for Graduate Students. NUPT Library owns a collection of about 2,110,000 paperback books, a good proportion of which concern such fields as information, telecommunications and electronics.
　 
NUPT has been a strong contributor in scientific and technological innovation and social services, demonstrating particular competitiveness in such areas as “Modern Information Exchange and Communication Network”, “Mobile Telecommunications and Electromagnetic Compatibility”, “Information Theory and Communication Signal Processing”, “Organic Electronics and Information Display”, “Information Management and Information System”, “Image Processing and Digital Video Technology”, “Computer Communication and Information Network Security”, “Optical Communication and Optical Electronic Technology”, “Quantum Information Processing”, “Information Materials and Nanotechnology”, “Nonlinear Circuit”, “Intelligence Optimum Technology” and “Demography”. In the past three years, NUPT has undertaken a total of 285 science and research projects at different levels, including National 973 Projects, National 863 Projects and National Natural Science Fund Projects; published more than 9000 research papers, about 5000 of which have been included by SCI, EI and ISTP; and won 31 provincial and ministerial and higher-level prizes, including the Second Prize of National Natural Science Awards as well as the First Prize of Higher Education Institute Scientific Research Achievements (Social Sciences). Building around its strong disciplines such as Telecommunication and IoT, NUPTis 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, 1 National Model Agency for Technological Transfer, 1 National Popular Science Education Base, and 8 Jiangsu Science and Technology Industry Platforms.

NUPT actively promotes international exchange and cooperation. In as early as 1990, NUPT became an APT (Asia-Pacific Telecommunity) Training Center in China. Over the past two decades, NUPT has trained 27 groups of personnel from 29 countries and regions. The university has established long-term interschool academic cooperation with 24 foreign universities and research institutes, running 36student exchange programs. Around 1000 international experts and scholars have visited and given lectures at NUPT, and about 30 of them are now teaching on a full-time or part-time basis here. With approval by the MoE, NUPT is cooperating with foreign universities to offer five joint undergraduate programs: Telecommunications, Digital Media Technology, Computer Science and Technology and Financial Management with New York Institute of Technology, and Information Management and Information System with Middlesex University. NUPT is now home to several hundred overseas students from all over the world.

NUPT, with a down-to-earth attitude and pioneering spirit, has identified a unique strategy for development, one that focuses on specialization in the field of telecommunications while reaching out to more sectors in an increasingly informatized society. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the CPC required “urging universities to develop features and strive for building first-class universities”. China is actively promoting the “Internet Plus” action plan, which gives the university more space for development. Now the university is taking opportunity to realize the five strategic ideas, namely “strong feature, high level, multiple disciplines, teaching research, and internationalization”, and carrying out the four strategies of “improve the university with quality, talent, features, and innovation”, with a view to becoming a high-level teaching-research university with distinct features in information science and technological field.