The world's first high-temperature superconducting high-speed maglev engineering prototype and its test line were launched on January 13, 2021 at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu. Epitomizing a landmark step forward, the prototype is designed and developed independently by China based on the original technology of Southwest Jiaotong University.Many new technologies are incorporated in t...

On January 7, a novel urban rail vehicle with wireless power supply rolled off the production line at CRRC TANGSHAN Co., Ltd., embodying a great leap forward from "wired" to "wireless" power supply for the first time in China. The technology of high power and great efficiency was developed by a SWJTU team led by Professor He Zhengyou based on the research project of "Contactless Power Supply Te...

​Prof. Cui Shuxun published a paper “Environment-dependent single-chain mechanics of synthetic polymers and biomacromolecules by atomic force microscopy-based single-molecule force spectroscopy and the implications for advanced polymer materials” in Chemical Society Reviews of the Royal Chemical Society as the corresponding author. Dr. Bao Yu is the paper’s first author and Southwest Jiaoto...

​On December 20, Huang Wanyi, a sophomore majoring in English at the School of Foreign Languages, won the first prize, topping all the first-prize winners at the final of the 2020 “FLTRP·ETIC Cup” English Writing Contest. After the school-level preliminary and the provincial semi-final, she came to the fore among 90 contestants nationwide who progressed from nearly 250,000 participants, and ...

As the winter is coming, a group of lovely people at the University are "scheming" against the freezing cold and "plotting" pleasant surprises for the students. They are preparing the gift package which would spread warmth and joy on the campus. Here begins “The Warm Winter Support”, a tradition of Southwest Jiaotong University. Given the low temperature of this winter and the continuation of...

​Questions & Answers on High-Speed Railway co-published by SWJTU Press and GBD Books of India was selected as an excellent export book in the 19th Excellent Introduced and Exported Books Promotion Campaign. Jointly sponsored by the Publishers Association of China, the Chinese Academy of Press and Publication and Publishing Reference, this campaign aims to promote cultural exchanges.Launched at...

Sponsored by the Office of International Cooperation and Exchanges in collaboration with Student International Affairs Center of the School of Information Science and Technology, the First International Exchange Week was launched at SWJTU from December 7 to 11, providing a channel for students to better understand the university's study abroad programs, the strengths and distinctive features of...

Recently, the University joins the International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme on the Stellarator-Heliotron Concept (IEA SH-TCP) as the Chinese contracting party upon the approval by the Department of International Cooperation under the Ministry of Science and Technology.                                                            IEA SH-TCP is an international science and tec...

On December 10, Yang Qian, a doctoral graduate from the School of Materials Science and Engineering of the University (now a postdoctoral student at the University of Manchester, UK) published a paper entitled “Capillary Condensation under Atomic-scale Confinement” in the top international academic journal Nature (Nature, 2020, 588, 250–253,https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2978-1) as the f...

On November 30th, SWJTU’s 50 courses were accredited by the Ministry of Education as National First-class Undergraduate Courses, ranking the University No. 17 among all the candidates, and the University reached top among the “First-class Discipline” ones with its 50 courses included in the first batch officially published.The national first-class undergraduate courses of the University incl...

​In the early morning of November 23, 2020, Beijing time, the joint team "GA State SW Jiaotong" established by the School of Life Science and Engineering of the University in collaboration with Georgia State University won the Silver Medal at the 17th International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM). A total of 256 teams with over 5,000 teachers and students from more than 40 co...

Nature Communications Materials published the research results on aluminum alloys of Yingbo Zhang's team from School of Materials Science and Engineering at the University.Zhang Yingbo’s team proposed an improved Efficient Global Optimization (EGO) algorithm based on Kriging model, and applied it to the composition optimization of 7xxx alloy. A 950MPa 7xxx alloy with zinc content less than 7wt...