Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the list of the first batch of key laboratories of the Ministry of Education in the "14th Five-Year Plan", and major universities successively announced their approval.
Up to now, 20 universities have been approved as the first batch of key laboratories of the Ministry of Education during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, among which 8 universities including Peking University, Hunan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tongji University, Central South University, Sun Yat-sen University and xidian university have been approved as two key laboratories of the Ministry of Education respectively.
Beijing Jiaotong University, Hubei University, Hubei University of Technology, Huazhong Normal University, Nanjing University, University of South China, Qinghai University, Shandong University, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, Wenzhou Medical University, China Ocean University, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, etc. 12 was approved by the Ministry of Education 1 Key Laboratory.
The key laboratory of the Ministry of Education is an important part of the national scientific and technological innovation system, and it is an important base for colleges and universities to organize high-level scientific research, cultivate and gather innovative talents, and carry out academic cooperation and exchanges.
Its main task is to face the scientific frontier, focus on the national strategic needs and the needs of industry and regional development, carry out innovative research, enhance the innovative ability of colleges and universities, promote the development of discipline construction, and support high-quality higher education with high-level scientific research.
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The State Key Laboratory is a scientific research entity with relatively independent personnel and financial rights based on the construction of a first-class legal person.
As an important part of the national science and technology innovation system, it is an important base for the state to organize high-level basic research and applied basic research, gather and train outstanding scientists, and carry out high-level academic exchanges. The laboratory implements the operation mechanism of "openness, mobility, alliance and competition".
The State Council's constituent departments (industries) or local provincial and municipal science and technology management departments are the management departments of State Key Laboratories, which are supported by institutes of Chinese Academy of Sciences and key universities.
Around 2003, the Ministry of Science and Technology set up the plan of "the state key laboratory cultivation base jointly established by provinces and ministries" as the "reserve team" for cultivating the "national team" of basic research, and further strengthened the connection between local and national basic research. On June 25th, 20 18, the Ministry of Science and Technology issued "Several Opinions on Strengthening the Construction and Development of State Key Laboratories". By 2020, the total number of laboratories will remain at around 700.