Directly under the administration of Ministry of Education, Chang'an University is one of the State "211 Project" key development universities, It was merged by the former Xi'an Highway University, Xi'an Engineering Institute and Northwest Institute of Construction Engineering on April 18th,2000. Chang'an University has disciplines in engineering, science, as well as economics, management and liberal arts with engineering as its main focus. Highway transportation, land resources and environment, and construction engineering are its features,

Situated in the southern suburb of the world-famous historic city of Xi'an and surrounded by many culture and research institutions, universities and colleges, Chang'an University is literally advantageous to talents in pursuing their academic goals, its five campuses [the Main Campus, Yanta Campus, Xiaozhai Campus, Weishui Campus and Taibai Campus] cover an area of 3,000 mu.

Since the mergence, Chang'an University has timely adjusted its discipline structure and developed into a balanced comprehensive education system. At present, the university has 15 institutes, 2 mobile stations for postdoctoral research programs, 5 first-class discipline postdoctoral degree conferring posts, 39 second-class discipline postdoctoral degree conferring posts, 83 master degree conferring posts and 75 undergraduate majors or specialties. They cover almost all the areas in the field of highway transportation, land resources and environment and construction engineering. The university has up-to-date facilities to support teaching, scientific research and experiments. There are 2 state-level key academic disciplines, 9 provincial and ministerial key academic disciplines, and 11 provincial or ministerial key laboratories (two of which are MOE ministerial]. The Chang'an University's institute of Construction Designs and the Transportation Capital Construction Quality Supervision Company are the state Class-A qualified institutions. The high-speed automobile test ring road and comprehensive test site is the only one in China . Besides, there is one highway fieldwork practice base and some experiment and practice

bases for automobiles, road machinery and construction engineering. Its modern gymnasium is of the first-class among colleges and universities in China , The university library houses 1,500,000 volumes of books, journals and magazines and publishes 9 journals, including Journal of China Highway, Transportation Engineering and Journal of Chang'an University.

Chang'an University has a quality teaching staff and has assembled a large number of well-known experts and professors, including two academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering, guest professors of the "Cheung Kong Scholars Programme" and national and world

famous scientists and professors, At present, there are more than 38,000 undergraduate and junior colleges students, 2,100 doctoral and master postgraduates, and over 80 overseas students from countries tike Germany , South Korea , Tanzania , and Australia , Chang'an University has continuously been deepening its education reform and elaborately constructing a teaching and research institutional system of turning out talents. Under the premise of stabilizing its undergraduate education size and teaching quality, it has been promoting the education of postgraduates under the established guiding principle of focusing both on undergraduate and postgraduate education. Now, the University has already developed into a balanced multi-discipline and multi-level education system with a bachelor-master--doctor degrees construct together with vocational and adult education as its supplements.

Chang'an University has successfully formed its own characteristics and gained advantages in the fields of highway, automobiles, geology, and civil engineering. Its comprehensive scientific research power has greatly strengthened. For the past five years, it has undertaken and conducted more than 500 important research programs. Among them, 12 were state key projects and over 120 were provincial or ministerial key projects, Nearly 100 of them were awarded provincial or ministerial prizes or beyond that level. Over 300 monographs and textbooks and more than 4,000 journals have been published. The cost of its scientific research has exceeded a hundred million Yuan, Combining economic entities, teaching and scientific research together; the University has exerted its intellectual and technological support for the state's economic construction and for the development of the western region, in particular.

In recent years, the average supply-demand ratio of graduates of Chang'an University reaches 1 to 8. The graduates have successfully sought their employment in various part of the nation, mainly in the fields of highway transportation, land resources and civil construction.

Their jobs cover wide areas ranging from scientific research and design to teaching and management.

It has been 53 years since its foundation in 1951. For past 50 years or so, Chang'an University has turned out more than 100,000 talents and professionals for the nation, At present, the trait of Chang'an University graduates can be found everywhere over this vast land, on which they are striving for and seeking their future. With their whole-hearted effort and selfless devotion to the country's prosperity, countless brave and courageous Chang'an University graduates have gained pride and reputation for their alma mater.

The Symposium of Development Strategy, the first Path/ Representative Conference and Stuff Representative Conference held in Chang'an University put forward the new strategy of "boasting the university with specialties" which has enabled the University to experience a historic turning point from deep-level mergence to the period of speed development, Facing the new area, the university has worked out three development plans, namely, Chang'an University Development Strategies, Plan to Construct Disciplines and Faculty and Plan of Campus Construction, These plans finely form a domestic firs-class university blueprint for Chang'an University in the near future.

Facing the opportunity provided by the area and striving with times, we are confident and determined to build Chang'an University into a first-class at home and an influential university abroad and a teaching and research-oriented institution with a focus on engineering, and balanced combination of science and engineering and corresponding development of arts disciplines in the near future.