Located in Nanjing, Jinling Institute of Technology (JIT) offers full-time undergraduate and postgraduate courses in advanced science and technological fields. The university structures itself upon the strategic research of the reform pilot of the Ministry of Education on application-oriented universities of science and technology. The university is the founding unit of the Association of Universities (Colleges) of Applied Science and chairs the Alliance of Applied Undergraduate Universities in the Yangtze River Delta Region. The predecessor of Jinling Institute of Technology was Jinling Polytechnic University, which was founded in 1980 as the first vocational university in China, and Nanjing Agricultural College, which was founded in 1958 and rebuilt in 1984. In June 2002, approved by the Ministry of Education and the Jiangsu Provincial Government, Jinling Polytechnic University and Nanjing Agricultural College were amalgamated into Jinling Institute of Technology. In March 2005, Jinling Institute of Technology (JIT) began formally recruiting new students. JIT has three campuses, Jiangning campus (the main campus), Mufu campus and Baixia campus. The main campus, Jiangning campus, is located in Jiangning university town, in the south of Nanjing. JIT covers 1,016,400 square meters, including a construction area of 657,200 square meters. JIT owns 2.808 billion RMB in assets, of which the value of teaching and research equipment is 495 million RMB. There are more than 20,000 full-time undergraduates and around 100 postgraduates. JIT has established 20 secondary schools, faculties and colleges. There are two Professional Comprehensive Reform Pilot Projects of Ministry of Education, two Provincial Excellent Teaching Teams, one Provincial Excellent Science and Technology Innovation Team, two Provincial Key Laboratories for University Construction, one Provincial Experimental Base for Innovation of Talent Training Mode in Higher Education, one Provincial Key Industrial College Construction Site, five Provincial Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers and four Provincial Practical Education Centers (including construction sites). JIT constantly strengthens the internal training and external introduction of talents and strives to build a highly qualified faculty that is highly qualified and skilled and meets the high requirements of cultivating application-oriented talent. There are around 1,300 full-time teachers. Attaching great importance to foreign exchange and cooperation, JIT actively cooperate with offshore universities in promoting the reform of education and teaching, cultivating senior applied talents with an open mind, towards an international perspective, and international competitiveness. Since 1995, JIT has been cooperating with universities in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France, Austria, Holland, USA, UK, Taiwan (China) and Macao (China). Currently, JIT has four joint programs approved by the Ministry of Education, including JIT-SUNY (USA) Horticulture (Biotechnology), JIT-QUT (Australia) Software Engineering, JIT-DMU (UK) Telecommunication Engineering, and JIT-GCU (UK) Civil Engineering. In recent years, JIT has won several honorary titles, for example, the National Home for Labor Model, Civilized Campus in Jiangsu, Harmonious Campus in Jiangsu, Advanced Unit of Graduate Employment in Jiangsu, Nanjing Civilized Unit, Active Unit in Building New Nanjing, Nanjing May 1st Labor Award, Municipal Advanced Collective in the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games. JIT is thriving to build a first-class provincial university while domestically emerging as a high-level application-oriented university. It focuses on emerging universities, gathering efforts on entrepreneurship and industrial development, and vigorously implementing the “Nanjing Strategy” and “Networking Strategy” following the development goals established by the Second Party Congress.