The 985 University in Fujian is Xiamen University, or XMU for short. It is a comprehensive research-oriented national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and the Central Government of People's Republic of China (PRC). It is the focus of world-class university construction (Class A) and national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project".

Xiamen University was founded by Mr. Chen Jiageng, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader. It is the first university founded by overseas Chinese in China's modern education history, one of the earliest universities in China to recruit graduate students, and the first university in China to build an independent campus overseas.

The early buildings of the school were selected as the national key cultural relics protection units and the list of "the first batch of 20th century architectural heritages in China", and were praised as "the strongest in the South" and "the most beautiful university in China". According to the statistical results published in ESI database 2065438+March 2009, Xiamen University * * has 16 disciplines, which is in the top of ESI ranking 1%.

The 16 disciplines are chemistry, engineering, materials science, clinical medicine, botany and zoology, environment and ecology, biology and biochemistry, mathematics, agronomy, social science, computer science, molecular biology and genetics, microbiology, pharmacology and toxicology, geoscience and physics, among which chemistry has reached 1‰ in the world.