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Introduction

In the past five years, the university received 10 national level awards, 142 provincial level technological awards and hosted 11 first or higher prize winning projects of key academies and societies, among which there were 1 first prize National Science and Technology Progress Award, 2 second prize National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 2 second prize State Technological Invention Awards, 21 Beijing Municipal Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Awards. BJTU undertook major state R&D projects and other research tasks from The National Social Science Fund and the National Natural Science Foundation, total research funds attributed to the university rose above 1 thousand million Yuan. The university was approbated by the National Intellectual Property Administration and Ministry of Education as one of the first National Intellectual Property Demonstration Universities. BJTU boasts more than 70 provincial and ministerial-level research platforms, including 1 Collaborative Innovation Center for Rail Transit Safety, 1 Smart High-speed Railway System Frontier Science Center, 1 National Key Laboratory, 1 National Engineering Research Centre, 6 National Engineering Laboratories (5 of which BJTU is closely involved in), 2 National Base of International Science and Technology Cooperation, 8 Key Laboratories/Education and Engineering Research Centers of the Ministry of Education, 1 National Energy Research Centre, 2 Key Laboratories of Traffic and Transportation Industry, 2 Beijing municipal laboratories, 17 Beijing Key Laboratories/Engineering Technology Research Centers, 3 Railway Industry Key Laboratories, 8 Oversea Expertise Introduction Centers, 1 of the first Capital Advanced Think-Tanks, 1 New Traffic and Transportation Think-Tank of the Ministry of Transport, 1 Beijing Municipal Research Center on Xi Jinping’s New Age Socialism with Distinctive Chinese Characteristics Theories, 4 Beijing Municipal Research Bases of Philosophy and Social Sciences, 1 National and Regional Research Center of the Ministry of Education. BJTU holds annually the Advanced Forum on Transportation of China, Lecture Hall of Jiaotong University and the Capital Advanced Think-Tank Forum on Beijing Transportation Development. The university provides kilo mega internet coverage for both cable and wireless connections throughout the campus. Thorough application of innovative high-technologies such as High Performance Computing, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence offers strong boost and support to the university’s reform and development. Nowadays, the institution possesses teaching and research equipment of 1.35 billion Yuan worth. The university library stocks paperback monographs, electronic books and online resources of nearly 14.62 million copies. BJTU established a characteristic database of transportation and traffic studies, as well as an Inspection and Research Work Station of Innovative Technologies of the Ministry of Education. It was approbated as one of the first Higher Education Institution National Intellectual Property Information Service Centers.