Project 985 refers to the major decision made by the CPC, the people of China and the State Council to build a world-class university at the turn of the century. 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".
2 1 1 project (Project 2 1 or 2 1 1 project) refers to the construction projects of universities and a number of key disciplines facing the 21century. It was officially launched on 1995 1 1 with the approval of the State Council.