On April 19, 2022, the Shanghai Ministry of Soft Science released the list of the top 800 universities in China in 2022. As can be seen from the list, Tsinghua University ranks first, Peking University ranks second and Zhejiang University ranks third. The top ten universities are Shanghai Jiaotong University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, China University of Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan University and Xi Jiaotong University.

Taking Peking University as an example, Peking University, founded in 1898, was the first national comprehensive university in China and the highest educational administrative organ in China at that time. Since the reform and opening up, Peking University has entered a new era of unprecedented development and construction, and has become one of the two key universities under the national "2 1 1 Project". In recent years, with the support of "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project", Peking University has entered a new historical development stage, and has made remarkable achievements in discipline construction, personnel training, faculty building, teaching and scientific research, laying a solid foundation for building Peking University into a world-class university.