1. Key universities refer to universities supported by the people of China, which have different meanings in different periods.
2. 1959 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's decision to designate a number of key universities in colleges and universities identified 20 universities as national key universities; 1960 "central government's decision on increasing national key institutions of higher learning" added 44 universities as national key universities; 1978 "the State Council forwarded the report of the Ministry of Education on restoring and running national key universities well" identified 88 universities as national key universities, and the number increased gradually to 198 1,1,which is the concept of key universities in the planned economy era.
3. 1995-2008, the central government successively determined 1 12 universities as the "21/project" key construction universities. 199 In 1998, the central government designated 39 universities as the key construction universities in the "985 Project", and in 2065, 438+000 universities in 24 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government were the key construction universities in the "Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in the Midwest". 14 There are no universities directly under the Ministry of Education in the central and western regions, and provincial universities have been established as "the comprehensive strength improvement project of universities in the central and western regions".
4.20 15, 10 the State Council issued the overall plan for promoting the construction of world-class universities and first-class disciplines, and unified key construction projects such as "21project", "985 project", "innovation platform for advantageous disciplines" and "special key discipline project" into world-class universities.
5. Key universities in the modern sense include universities selected for the above-mentioned national key construction projects and former national key universities not included in the national key construction projects. At present, there are about 100 national key universities in China. In addition, there are provincial key universities and municipal key universities established by local governments.