Why is the English name of Southwest Jiaotong University "Jiaotong University"?

1896, Sheng Xuanhuai, a member of Tianjin Customs Road and Taichang Temple, raised funds to establish Nanyang Public School in Xujiahui, Shanghai, under the jurisdiction of China Merchants Bureau and Telegraph Bureau. After the founding of the Republic of China, the school was placed under the Ministry of Communications and renamed Shanghai Institute of Technology. 192065438+In February, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Tangshan Institute of Technology, Beijing Railway Management School and Beijing Post and Telecommunications School merged into one school, named Jiaotong University. 1921August, Shanghai Institute of Technology was renamed Shanghai College of Jiaotong University. Jiaotong University is not directly related to transportation, because it is a university under the Ministry of Communications of the Republic of China, so it is called Jiaotong University. The word "Jiaotong University" cannot be abused casually. It has specific historical reasons. It is said that it is called Jiaotong University. Later, when President Tang decided to celebrate the school, it was scheduled for April 8, meaning "extending in all directions".

Jiaotong University (formerly known as Jiaotong University) has always been a specific name in China, not a category name, which is essentially different from the titles of industrial university, polytechnic university, university of science and technology, normal university, agricultural university and mining university. The latter belongs to the industry name. Although many industry universities are multidisciplinary universities now, they always focus on their own disciplines or related disciplines. However, Jiao Tong University is not an industrial university, which can be seen from the English name Jiao Tong University that Jiao Tong University has been using. Especially for Shanghai Jiaotong University and Xi Jiaotong University, these are two jiaotong universities that do not engage in transportation. From this perspective, once the word "traffic" is combined with "university", it is a specific name, just like the names of Tsinghua, Fudan and Tongji. Following Jiaotong University, there are five schools belonging to the Jiaotong University family due to historical origins: Shanghai Jiaotong University, Xi Jiaotong University, Beijing Jiaotong University, Southwest Jiaotong University and Hsinchu Jiaotong University in Taiwan Province Province. These five schools are widely recognized by alumni at home and abroad. In particular, many overseas alumni associations are not directly affiliated with any Jiao Tong University, but are directly called Jiao Tong University Alumni Association, which is one of the reasons why Jiao Tong University Alumni Association is quite influential and well-known in the world.

Jiaotong University has been established for a long time. After the civil war, the Kuomintang retreated, and some of them went to Taiwan Province Province and then set up Jiaotong University (as if in Hsinchu). In this way, both the mainland and Taiwan Province Province have Jiaotong University. It's the same as in the citation.