Located in Changsha, a famous historical and cultural city in China, Central South University is the only national key university directly under the central government and the Ministry of Education in Hunan Province. It is the first batch of key universities in the national "2 1 1 Project", "985 Project" and "20 165438 Plan". It is a university selected by "11plan", "excellent engineer education and training plan", "excellent doctor education and training plan" and "excellent legal talent education and training plan", and it is a key university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Hunan Province.

By the end of 20 13, Central South University had established three national key laboratories, four national engineering research centers, two national engineering laboratories and three "20 1 1 plan" national collaborative innovation centers. There are also 2 international science and technology cooperation centers of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 resource base of the Ministry of Education and * * * sharing information platform, 8 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 5 platforms for academic innovation and intelligence introduction of the Ministry of Education, the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, 4 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, 8 key research bases of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education,1Hunan Key Laboratory, 65438 Hunan Engineering Technology Research Center has 4 key laboratories in Hunan universities, 8 research bases of philosophy and social sciences in Hunan province, 1 base of international scientific cooperation in Hunan province, 3 engineering laboratories in Hunan province and nearly 40 university-level scientific research platforms.