39.1On May 4th, 1998, Jiang Zemin, then president, announced to the whole society at the celebration meeting of Peking University100th anniversary: "In order to realize modernization, China should have a number of world-class universities." The Ministry of Education of China has decided to give priority to supporting some universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University to establish world-class universities and high-level universities in the implementation of the education revitalization action plan for the 2 1 century, and named it "Project 985" (1998 May) after Comrade Jiang Zemin's speech at the celebration meeting of Peking University 100. The first batch of ***9 universities (namely, the Nine Universities Alliance) were built by the "985 Project", namely Peking University, Tsinghua University, China University of Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Xi Jiaotong University, Nanjing University, Zhejiang University and Harbin Institute of Technology. A total of 39 universities were approved to build the "985 Project". A total of 39 "985 Project" universities were approved for construction. They are Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Nanjing University, China University of Science and Technology, Xi Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Nankai University, Tianjin University, Sun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology, Shandong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jilin University, Xiamen University, Wuhan University, Southeast University, China Ocean University, Hunan University, Central South University and Northwest Dalian. Sichuan University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Beihang University, Chongqing University, Lanzhou University, Northeastern University, Tongji University, Beijing Normal University, China Renmin University, China Agricultural University, Northwest A&F University, Minzu University of China, National University of Defense Technology, East China Normal University.