Jinggangshan University

Jinggangshan University (JGSU, simplified Chinese: 井冈山大学; traditional Chinese: 井岡山大學; pinyin: Jǐnggāngshān Dàxué) is in the Jinggangshan Mountains in Qingyuan District, Ji'an city of Jiangxi province in China.

[1] JGSU is jointly supported by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and the People's Government of Jiangxi Province, pair-assisted by Tongji University and authorized by Nanjing Military Region for cultivation of military talents and cadres.

JGSU comprises 21 schools offering 75 undergraduate majors with modern language laboratories and computer centers covering around 170 hectares.

Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong and his colleagues established the first rural base of the revolution in the Jinggangshan Mountains in 1927.

The Medical School of Jinggangshan University (Chinese: 井冈山大学医学院; pinyin: jǐng gāng shān dàxué yīxuéyuàn) possesses a Level 3A graded affiliated hospital, the Jinggangshan University Affiliated Hospital, which consists of 35 medical departments and sections with a capacity of 522 sick beds.

School gate
Graduation batch of international students, 2012