Beijing Institute of Technology is a national key university in People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. It has dual identities of 985 Project and 2 1 1 Project. The 985 Project was initiated by the government of China in 1998 to cultivate world-class universities, and the 21Project was initiated in 1995 to improve the level of higher education in China. Beijing Institute of Technology, as a university selected for these two projects, enjoys the special support and resource input from the government and is committed to improving the quality of education and teaching and the level of scientific research. Therefore, it can be determined that Beijing Institute of Technology is both a 985 university and a 2 1 1 university.