In June, the Jiangxi provincial government established National Chung Cheng University in Xingling Village, Taihe County.
In September, the university appointed Hu Hsen-Hsu, a famed botanist and literary scholar, as its first president.
[3] The university's name was derived from the Confucian concept of "great centrality and justice" and also the courtesy name of then Premier of China Chiang Kai-Shek.
The following year, a Civil Engineering Special Programme was added and the Department of Agriculture doubled its intake.
Based on the remaining faculties of Chinese, history, biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry and arts, Jiangxi Normal Institute was established on the original site.
Jiangxi Normal Institute inherited all the campuses, most of the libraries, some equipment and one-third of the faculty, most staff and all the workers of Nanchang University.