Recently, official website, the Ministry of Education, issued the Notice on Declaring a Batch of Normative Documents Invalidated, which was jointly issued by the Ministry of Education, the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and the State Language Committee.
The notice announced that a number of normative documents such as Opinions on Continuing to Implement the 985 Project Construction Project, Measures for the Administration of the 985 Project Construction and Measures for the Administration of 21kloc-0/Project Implementation were invalid.
Some documents of Project 985 and 2 1 1 were declared invalid, which once again triggered the association of "Abolishing Project 985, 21/project". According to the notice, the clean-up document is a special clean-up of normative documents that are not conducive to steady growth, promoting reform, restructuring and benefiting people's livelihood by the Ministry of Education. With the consent of relevant ministries and units, the Ministry of Education decided to declare a number of normative documents invalid. In particular, the circular pointed out that the invalid normative documents are no longer used as the basis for administrative management. The documents declared invalid this time involve many fields and have a long time span. According to the document number, invalid documents can be traced back to 1978 at the earliest, and the latest is the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Implementing the National Training Plan for Kindergarten Teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools. It is worth mentioning that many of the documents declared invalid this time are related to the "985" and "2 1 1" projects.
At the same time, the documents declared invalid by the Ministry of Education include Opinions on Continuing to Implement the Innovation Platform Construction of Dominant Disciplines, Opinions on Implementing Key Disciplines with Characteristics, Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of World-class Universities and High-level Universities, and many other documents.
In fact, as early as that time, the issue of "985" project and "2 1 1" project once caused a heated discussion among the whole people. In April of that year, Zhang Yaoxue, president of Central South University, said at the scientific and technological work conference of the university, "Now the country has cancelled the' 985' project and the' 211'project, and the performance after cancellation is distributed to the school according to several factors." Subsequently, the news that "the country cancelled the' 985' and' 211'projects and reshuffled the key universities" went viral on the Internet. The Ministry of Education officially responded that there is no need to cancel the "2 1 1" project and the "985" project, and proposed that the top-level design will be further strengthened in the future.
In fact, these two major projects have long stopped adding colleges and universities, and the two major projects have closed the access door.
In recent years, the government is gradually diluting the concepts of 985, 2 1 1 project.
In 20 15, the state launched the construction plan of double first-class universities, which is the guiding document for the new round of national key university construction.
Ministry of Education: Start the construction of double first-class universities during the year.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the central government has put forward major strategies such as "four comprehensive" strategic layout and innovation-driven development, which put forward higher and more urgent requirements for the construction of high-level universities. 20 15 In August, the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform deliberated and adopted the Overall Plan for Overall Promoting the Construction of World-class Universities and First-class Subjects, which was officially issued in the State Council in June, 1 1, making new arrangements for the key construction of higher education in the new period. Integrating key construction projects such as "985 Project", "2 1 1 Project", "Innovation Platform for Dominant Subjects" and "Construction of Characteristic Key Subjects" into world-class universities and disciplines requires comprehensively deepening reform requirements, innovating key construction mechanisms, taking China characteristics and world-class as the core, taking first-class as the goal, taking disciplines as the basis and taking performance as the lever.
According to reports, building world-class universities and disciplines is a major strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. At present, the Ministry of Education, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance are studying and formulating the implementation methods and supporting policies for the construction of world-class universities and first-class disciplines, and plan to start a new round of construction this year.