985 is the abbreviation of "985 Project" and 2 1 1 is the abbreviation of "2 1 1 Project", both of which are construction projects of colleges and universities, effectively promoting the overall level of higher education in China.
1On May 4th, 998, Comrade Jiang Zemin said at the celebration of the 0/00th anniversary of the founding of Peking University that China should have a number of first-class universities with world-class standards in order to realize modernization. The Ministry of Education has decided to focus on supporting some institutions of higher learning such as Peking University and Tsinghua University to establish world-class universities and high-level universities.
The project was named "Project 985" according to the time of Comrade Jiang Zemin's speech on the anniversary of Peking University 100-May, 1998. 1998 started the "985 Project" and supported 39 universities to carry out key construction in combination with the national innovation system.
"2 1 1" project is a construction project for 2 1 century about 100 national key universities and a number of key disciplines. 1995 was officially launched after being approved by the State Council. It is the largest and highest-level key construction project in the field of higher education initiated by the state since the founding of New China.
This is an important measure of China government to implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, and it is also a systematic reform project of higher education. The "2 1 1 project" was started in 1993, and successively 1 12 universities were included in the construction scope, all of which were national ordinary universities.
985 school
1, 8 in Beijing: Peking University, Beihang University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing Normal University, Tsinghua University, China Agricultural University, China Renmin University and Minzu University of China.
2. Four universities in Shanghai: Fudan University, East China Normal University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Tongji University.
3. Three in Hunan: National University of Defense Technology, Hunan University and Central South University.
4. Three in Shaanxi: xi Jiaotong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Northwest A&F University.
5. Two books in Guangdong: South China University of Technology and Sun Yat-sen University.