Southwest Jiaotong University, founded in 1896, have been named as the "Northern Railway official Shanhaiguan School", "Tangshan Jiaotong University", "Tangshan Railway Institute," and so on, modern China's founding, one of the earliest institutions of higher learning as well as the first entry " 211 Project "construction and has a Graduate School of the major colleges and universities nationwide. As early as the early years of the Republic, Dr. Sun Yat-sen had莅校inspections, issued a "call for armed revolution, the construction of two armies," the famous speech; after the founding of New China, Comrade Mao Zedong wrote the name of the school were autographed; Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De Li, Jia Qinglin and other party and state leaders have come to the school inspection; Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin personally met with leaders and experts and professors in schools, teachers and students to the school with great inspiration and encouragement. In a journey of more than a century, the school has always been to educate the country the responsibility of carrying forward the "Yang-hua竢real, self-improvement," the spirit of the National Chiao Tung University, passed "rigorous scholarship, the stringent requirements" of the school tradition, and trained nearly 200,000 graduates for national rejuvenation and prosperity of the country, especially the development of rail transit have made a significant contribution. Comrade Deng Xiaoping spoke highly of the school had given: "This school has a lot of talent.Yang Xingfo have a name, and to participate in the early years of revolution and sacrifice, the poems in memory of Lu Xun, he went. Zhu is also a graduate of the school, created a ' phenology '. There is one bridge expert Mao Yisheng, China's first modern design of the Qiantang River Bridge is that he built. "

     Today, Southwest Jiaotong University has developed into one so the main engineering, engineering, science, management, economics, arts, law, such as the coordinated development of multi-disciplinary national key university. The school has a complete Bachelor - Master - Dr. culture system, we focused on 72 professional and 134 master points, eight level, 56 subjects two doctoral, post-doctoral research station 8; has 23 faculties, and 2 level, 10 two national key disciplines, 24 provincial and ministerial level key disciplines; have traffic in the world have a significant impact on the area of the traction power of national key laboratories and 27 provincial and ministerial key laboratories. In 2004, at the national level, the overall level of academic assessment, transportation engineering top ranked country, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, management science and engineering disciplines, such as the forefront of the country are ranked. Schools in 2000 passed the "excellent work of the Ministry of Education evaluation of undergraduate teaching," 16 became the national school of excellence of undergraduate education; in 2007, the school again outstanding results through the Ministry of Education to assess the level of undergraduate teaching. In recent years, the school has more than 20 countries and regions, more than 50 scientific research institutions to carry out exchanges and cooperation, "France 4 +4" cooperation among institutions. Open old school formed, the International School of the new situation.

     The journey ahead, the school always has a Learned , dedicated love school, and to inherit the fine traditions of the school teachers. Schools are more than 2,300 full-time teachers. Among them, the Chinese Academy of Sciences 4, 3 Chinese Academy of Engineering, and also hired more than 30 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering as a part-time professor; professors, associate professor of more than 1,000; one of 3 state-level teacher education, state-level have 7 outstanding contributions to the experts, "Cheung Kong Scholars" Professor and 6 Professor, "973" Chief Scientist 1, the third Cheung Kong Scholars Achievement Award Grand Prize, 1 winner of National Outstanding Youth Fund 7 selected countries "Talent Project" 6, and the inclusion of the Ministry of Education "in support of New Century Excellent Talents Plan" of 25.

     More than a century, schools of excellence come forth in large numbers, peach garden. Among them, there are 43 academicians, there are "two bombs fathers", as well as national, provincial and ministerial level, as well as a large number of leading domestic and foreign well-known experts, professors, industry leaders and outstanding entrepreneurs. Zhan Tianyou built from the auspices of China's first independent design, independent of Beijing Zhang Railway Construction, China's first electrified railway - Baoji-Chengdu railway building; from the universally recognized most complicated geological conditions, engineering Cheng Du- Kun Ming most difficult railway construction to the July 2006 operation of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway; from the liberation of China's first diesel electric locomotive and the success of the development of vehicles to the world's first manned HTS Maglev test vehicle was born; from our first 10,000 tons Daqin Line heavy-duty train successful, to be China's first manned model maglev train line project success FBI; from the subway all the design and construction, to the famous Hangzhou Bay Bridge, the construction of the East China Sea Bridge. These achievements are all full of Southwest Jiaotong University graduates with the wisdom and efforts. In recent years, schools around the state closely track the progress of transport and development, and rail transportation, magnetic levitation transport, high-speed railway, large bridges tunnels, traffic information, such as modern field of research a major breakthrough, the birth of a "rolling stock rolling vehicle vibration test-bed "(first prize by the National Scientific and Technological Progress, appeared in the" scientific and technological progress in the top ten universities in China ")," High-temperature superconducting Maglev test vehicle "(named" China's top ten scientific and technological progress of colleges and universities ")" Coupling of modern rail vehicles and related theories their applications "(by the National Science and Technology Progress Award, named" China's top ten scientific and technological progress in college "), such as represented by a series of landmark achievements in science and technology innovation for the country to make a strong contribution to the national rail transportation of important scientific and technological development base. Not only that, the school also take full advantage of school advantages, and increase the services the west and the main battlefield of the local economic construction efforts.

     The future, schools will be in accordance with the "education-centered, quality first, reasonable structure, distinctive characteristics" of the school policy, seriously implement the "three-step" development strategy, relying on traditional strengths and characteristics of academic disciplines, are being planned in order to "track Traffic National Laboratory "for innovative platform and platform support, and actively promote the field of rail transportation in our country's original innovation and integrated innovation, to build traffic characteristics with the coordinated development of multi-disciplinary high level of research universities to fight.