Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST) is designated very high risk for its high level of defence research and links to China’s defence industry.
NJUST is one of the ‘Seven Sons of National Defence’ administered by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Together with Beijing Institute of Technology, it was ranked as China’s top university for armaments science in 2017.https://web.archive.org/web/20180716152805/https://kaoyan.eol.cn/nnews/201712/t20171228_1577259.shtml Roughly 16% of the university’s graduates in 2018 who found employment were working in the defence sector.https://web.archive.org/web/20191008043337/http://www.njust.edu.cn/_upload/article/files/fd/67/62c39ff7460f978f192d2c9978a5/28ed4cba-56ac-4218-8684-68bf69ce45a1.pdf
NJUST is a member of the B8 Cooperation Innovation Alliance (B8协同创新联盟 or 中国兵器协同创新联盟), a group of eight Chinese research institutions specialising in weapons science—the ‘B’ in ‘B8’ stands for Chinese word for armaments, bingqi (兵器).https://web.archive.org/web/20190523024327/http://www.bit.edu.cn/xww/zhxw/152141.htm Indicative of the university’s high level of involvement in defence research, in 2013 a disused laboratory on its campus exploded, killing one, after workers disturbed a cache of explosives.http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2013/04-30/4777878.shtml
NJUST has a collaborative relationship with a PLA signals intelligence research institute, involving cooperation on unmanned combat platforms and information security.http://archive.fo/XSlCm ; https://project2049.net/2011/11/11/the-chinese-peoples-liberation-army-signals-intelligence-and-cyber-reconnaissance-infrastructure/
Major defence laboratories
- National Key Laboratory of Transient Physics (瞬态物理国家重点实验室)https://web.archive.org/web/20190517120125/http://zdsys.njust.edu.cn/
- May also known as the National Defense Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Trajectory (弹道国防科技重点实验室)https://web.archive.org/web/20190523031609/http://bbs.netbig.com/thread-2648929-1-1.html ; https://web.archive.org/web/20190523031756/http://zs.njust.edu.cn/35/bb/c4621a79291/page.htm
- Key Discipline Laboratory of Defense of Short-range and High-speed Target Detection Technology (近程高速目标探测技术国防重点学科实验室)https://web.archive.org/web/20160519170915/http://www.njust.edu.cn/zdsys.asp ; https://web.archive.org/web/20190523031907/http://kyy.njust.edu.cn/8f/21/c4975a102177/page.htm
- Ministerial Key Laboratory of ZNDY (智能弹药技术国防重点学科实验室)https://web.archive.org/web/20160519170915/http://www.njust.edu.cn/zdsys.asp ; https://web.archive.org/web/20190523032236/http://sme.njust.edu.cn/14/89/c1579a136329/page.htm
- Literally translated as the National Defence Key Discipline Laboratory of Smart Munition Technology
Designated defence research areas
In 2016 and 2017, SASTIND approved 10 defence research disciplines at NJUST.https://web.archive.org/web/20171014031010/http://www.njust.edu.cn/29/d9/c3624a141785/page.htm ; http://www.njust.edu.cn/15/dd/c3624a136669/page.htm Four of these areas were identified:
- Pattern recognition and intelligent systemshttps://web.archive.org/web/20190819071235/http://cs.njust.edu.cn/1715/list.htm
- Control theory and control engineeringhttps://web.archive.org/web/20190819071305/http://zsb.njust.edu.cn/detail?id=127
- Military chemistry and pyrotechnicshttps://web.archive.org/web/20190127040122/http://sce.njust.edu.cn/1506/list.htm
- Electromagnetic fields and microwave technologyhttp://gs.njust.edu.cn/_upload/article/files/33/d9/2b0b85ad4b699bb9d67e12d36a75/7c0b8b25-f697-45ba-ae09-5f8c7dad0fce.docx
SASTIND’s predecessor COSTIND designated several defence areas at NJUST, of which the following were identified:
- Nano and sub-micro science and technologyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20190127040122/http://sce.njust.edu.cn/1506/list.htm
- Optical engineeringhttp://gs.njust.edu.cn/_upload/article/files/33/d9/2b0b85ad4b699bb9d67e12d36a75/7c0b8b25-f697-45ba-ae09-5f8c7dad0fce.docx
- Detection, guidance and control technology
- Information counter-measures technologyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20190819072608/http://eoe.njust.edu.cn/1787/list.htm
- Land-based weapons mechanical engineering
- Weapons systems and utilization engineeringhttps://web.archive.org/web/20190206035857/http://sme.njust.edu.cn/1589/list.htm
Noteworthy international collaborations
- France’s ENI Metz and NJUST jointly established an engineering college in 2015.https://web.archive.org/web/20180711234838/http://www1.njust.edu.cn/ef/bd/c3624a61373/page.htm
- In 2012, NJUST established the Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience, headed by German scientist Herbert Gleiter.https://web.archive.org/web/20190523042050/http://hgi.njust.edu.cn/5a/a0/c8293a154272/page.htm
- In 2017, NJUST and Belarus’s Francisk Skorina Gomel State University jointly established a Confucius Institute.https://web.archive.org/web/20190523042218/http://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2017-12-21/doc-ifypwzxq4911800.shtml
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