Tongji University is one of the leading universities in China under direct administration of Ministry of Education, listed on “Project 985” and “Project 211”. With a history of over a century, Tongji has valued the balanced development of four functions, i.e. education, research, outreach, and culture inheritance and innovation.

The history of Tongji can be traced back to 1907 when German Medical School was founded by Erich Paulun, a German doctor in Shanghai. After being renamed Tongji German Medical School in the following year, it was formally established as a university in 1923. It became National Tongji University in 1927, one of the seven earliest national universities of China. ..

Located in Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, University of Stuttgart is not only a renowned national university in Germany, but also a technical and engineering university with high prestige around the world. As one of Germany's oldest technical university, it has been a member of the top nine leading technical universities in Germany (TU9), the six German universities in the Union of European Aeronautics and Astronautics Universities (PEGASUS), the Union of European Top Industrial Management Universities (TIME) and Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER).