My answer is no, whether Liaoning University and China Medical University can be merged into 985 University. Whether a university can become a "985" or not, regardless of other objective factors, academic level and scientific research achievements are the two most important indicators. The contents involved in scientific research are too complicated, so I won't expand them here. The subject level that the public is familiar with and widely spread can be used as an important basis for the conclusion, which is analyzed in three points.

1. Liaoning University has 27 colleges, 75 undergraduate majors, 3 national key disciplines, 6 provincial-level key disciplines, 8 provincial-level key disciplines, and 1 world-class construction disciplines. According to the results of the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, four disciplines in Liaoning University got B+, 1 discipline got B, four disciplines got B-, two disciplines got C+, five disciplines got C- and five disciplines got C-.

2. China Medical University has 15 colleges, 2 1 undergraduate majors, 5 national key disciplines and 1 national key disciplines. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, China Medical University 1 discipline got B+, five disciplines got B, and 1 discipline got B-.

3. If all 2 1 1 colleges and universities are divided into three grades: A, B and C, the comprehensive strength of Liaoning University belongs to C .. The comprehensive strength of China Medical University ranks first among medical universities. If 39 985 colleges and universities are also divided into three grades: A, B and C, Lanzhou University belongs to C .. Taking Lanzhou University as a comprehensive university as a reference model, let's take a look at the indicators of Lanzhou University.

Lanzhou University has 27 colleges, 103 undergraduate majors, 8 national key disciplines, 2 national key cultivation disciplines, 35 provincial key disciplines, 3 provincial key cultivation disciplines and 4 world-class construction disciplines. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation results, Lanzhou University 1 discipline got A+, 1 discipline got A, 8 disciplines got B+, 4 disciplines got B-, 6 disciplines got B-, 8 disciplines got C+, 2 disciplines got C- and 5 disciplines got C-.

The comprehensive scores obtained by Liaoning University and China Medical University are 5 B+, 6 B, 5 B-, 2 C+, 5 C- and 5 C-. Unfortunately, this achievement did not reach or exceed the index of Lanzhou University.

To sum up, although the merger of Liaoning University and China Medical University can reach the level of 985 universities in terms of school scale, teachers, school level and school resources, it is still slightly lacking in the most critical "soft power".