Shanghai Jiao Tong University is directly under the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Education and Shanghai jointly built the national key universities, the national "seventh five-year plan", "eight five-year plan" key construction and "211 project ", "985 project" of the first construction of universities, is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in China. The predecessor of the school is a famous modern Chinese industrialist, educator Sheng Xuanhuai founded in 1896 Nanyang Public School, after more than a hundred years of unremitting efforts, Shanghai Jiao Tong University has become a "comprehensive, research-oriented, international" domestic first-class, internationally renowned universities, and is steadily marching toward the world's leading universities.