Nanjing Railway Vocational and Technical College is a full-time general college established with the approval of Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and filed by the Ministry of Education. It is a provincial Demonstration Vocational College in Jiangsu Province. The school's predecessor was the first vocational school of Nanjing Special Municipal Government, founded in 1941. It was renamed Nanjing Railway Transportation School since 1955 and has long been under the management of the Ministry of Railways. In 2002, the school was upgraded to a higher vocational and technical college and renamed Nanjing Railway Vocational and Technical College. In 2004, the established system was transferred from the Ministry of Railway to the local management of Jiangsu Province.

After more than 70 years of ups and downs, the people of Nantie Academy have always adhered to the historical responsibility of building people with moral integrity, dedicating railway, serving the society, working hard and striving hard, accumulated excellent school-running tradition, nurtured a rich campus culture with railway characteristics, trained a large number of high-quality skilled personnel, and won a good social reputation. Since its upgrade, the development of the college has opened a new chapter in its history. Excellent achievements have been made in the first evaluation of the personnel training level of Higher Vocational Colleges organized by the Ministry of Education; successfully ranked among provincial demonstration vocational colleges; fully opened the new Pukou campus; innovated the school-running system and mechanism, carried out strategic cooperation with industry and regional large enterprises, implemented order training, built a high-level comprehensive training base, and cooperated with relevant ordinary colleges and universities to innovate and unite. Running schools, jointly building University Students'Pioneering Park and science and Technology Industrial Park with the competent government departments and enterprises, reforming the mode of personnel training, and constantly improving the quality of personnel training. After ten years of hard work, the comprehensive strength of the college has been rapidly improved, and the cause has entered a new historical period.

Based on Jiangsu, facing the whole country, focusing on serving the Yangtze River Delta region, based on railway and urban rail transit industry, facing regional economy, opening up schools and running schools with characteristics, the College is committed to training first-class high-skilled talents, promoting educational and teaching reform, building high-skilled personnel training, application-oriented technology research and development and transformation of achievements in rail transit industry in the Yangtze River Delta region, and disseminating railway culture. As an important base, the College will be built into a high-level, distinctive and internationally influential rail transit vocational college.