Seven key areas: energy, life, earth system and environment, materials, particle physics and nuclear physics, space and astronomy, and engineering technology.
Requirements of the Ministry of Education for Declaring National Key Subjects
The applied discipline must have the right to confer doctoral degrees and have officially enrolled at least one doctoral student, and should meet one of the following conditions:
The applied discipline should be a part of the key discipline construction project of the original "2 1 1 project" school approved by the Ministry of Education during the Five-Year Plan for National Economic Development.
During the "Five-year Plan for National Economic Development", the applied discipline won the second prize at the provincial and ministerial level (including the second prize) or above.
Applied discipline is an important part of national or provincial key laboratories, social science research bases and engineering centers.
The first-level discipline where the applied discipline is located has obtained the right to award doctoral degrees in the first-level discipline.
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Basic conditions of national key disciplines
Discipline direction: it is of great significance to promote discipline development, scientific and technological progress, and promote China's economic, social and cultural development and national defense construction;
Academic team: academic leaders with high academic attainments, certain international influence or recognized in China, and high-level academic echelon with reasonable structure;
Talent training: the number and quality of doctoral students are in the forefront of similar doctoral programs in China;
Scientific research: it has formed academic characteristics with great influence, obtained a certain number of high-level research results, made great contributions to economic construction and social development, and undertaken research projects with important theoretical and practical significance;
Conditions construction: the teaching and scientific research conditions are at the advanced level of similar disciplines in China, with strong mutual support ability with related disciplines and advanced means of obtaining information at home and abroad;
Strong academic atmosphere, active international and domestic academic exchanges.
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