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Nanjing University of Science and Technology (hereinafter referred to as "South Institute of Technology"), located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and jointly established by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province. It is a national "double-first-class" construction university and an innovative platform for "21Project" and "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline".
Excellent engineer education and training plan, national high-level university construction postgraduate plan, new engineering research and practice plan, national college students' innovation experiment plan, national college students' cultural quality education base, national innovative talent training demonstration base, national international scientific and technological cooperation base, China government scholarship receiving institutions for foreign students in China, national universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship, and the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education.
18 universities, such as the national innovation and entrepreneurship base for practical education in colleges and universities, the first batch of scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer bases in colleges and universities, and the national pilot demonstration universities for patent work, were approved as national dual-innovation demonstration bases. The first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China are members of the Sino-Russian Engineering University Alliance, the University Alliance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the B8 Collaborative Innovation Alliance and the CDIO Engineering Education Alliance, and are known as the "cradle of weapons technical talents".