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Is Guangzhou University a 985 university or a 2 1 1 university?
Guangzhou University is neither a 985 university nor a 2 1 1 university.

2 1 1 Project and 985 Project Brief Introduction:

The "2 1 1" project, that is, to build about 100 colleges and universities and a number of key disciplines in 2 1 century, is the largest and highest-level key construction work initiated by the state in the field of higher education since the founding of New China, and it is an important measure for the China government to implement the strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education".

Project 985, 65438+1On May 4, 1998, when Jiang Zemin, then president, celebrated the 0/00th anniversary of the founding of Peking University, he proposed that "China should have a number of first-class universities with world-class level to realize modernization", and the first phase of Project 985 was first implemented in Peking University and Tsinghua.

Guangzhou University is a comprehensive university named after Guangzhou, an important national central city. It merged in 2000 and has a tradition of running schools for more than 90 years. The school firmly grasps the opportunity of the country to promote the construction of "double first-class" and high-level universities in Guangdong and Guangzhou, adheres to the international academic frontier, the country's major strategic needs and the national and regional economic and social needs, actively connects the construction, innovation and opening up of Guangzhou and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and focuses on the construction of new engineering courses. The new normal university and new liberal arts actively explore the development of new medicine in accordance with the concepts of connotation construction, innovation leading, characteristic development and open development.