Jiangsu University is not a 211 or 985 project institution, but an ordinary provincial key university.
Jiangsu University: Located in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, a national historical and cultural city with beautiful scenery. Approved by the Ministry of Education in August 2001, the former Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang Medical College, and Zhenjiang Normal College were merged to form a comprehensive teaching and research university featuring engineering.
Jiangsu, referred to as "Su", the provincial capital Nanjing, is located in the center of the eastern coast of mainland China, between 116°18′~121°57′ east longitude and 30°45′~35°20′ north latitude. In 1667 AD, the province was established as a result of the east-west division of Jiangnan Province. It was named after the first characters of "Jiangning Prefecture" and "Suzhou Prefecture". ?
Jiangsu has an inter-provincial land boundary of 3,383 kilometers and an area of ??107,200 square kilometers, accounting for 1.12% of China. The per capita land area is the smallest among all provinces and regions in China. Jiangsu's terrain is dominated by plains, which cover an area of ??more than 70,000 square kilometers, accounting for more than 70% of Jiangsu's area, ranking first among all provinces in China. In 2014, Jiangsu's permanent population reached 79.6006 million, ranking fifth in China. In 2014, the GDP of 13 cities in Jiangsu all entered the top 100 in China, with per capita GDP reaching 81,874 yuan, ranking first among all provinces in China. ?
Jiangsu governs the river and the sea, controls the Huaihe River and controls the lake. It has a prosperous economy, developed education and prosperous culture. Spanning the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River to the north and south, with the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal running through it, it is home to four diverse cultures: Wu, Jinling, Huaiyang, and Central Plains. It is one of the birthplaces of ancient Chinese civilization. Jiangsu geographically spans north and south, and its climate and vegetation also have characteristics of both the south and the north.
Jiangsu faces the Yellow Sea and the Pacific Ocean to the east, borders Shanghai, Zhejiang Province, Anhui Province, and Shandong Province, and faces Kyushu Island in Japan, Jeju Island in South Korea, and California, the largest state in the United States, across the sea. It became a sister province and state with California and established the "Jiangsu Province-California" Joint Economic Committee.
The Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration formed by Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Anhui has become one of the six world-class urban agglomerations in the world. Jiangsu's per capita GDP, comprehensive competitiveness, regional development and livelihood index (DLI) all rank first among provinces in the country, making it the province with the highest comprehensive development level in China and has entered the level of "middle-to-upper" developed countries.