Key universities refer to universities supported by the people of China and China, which have different meanings in different periods.
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 "the central government's decision on increasing the number of national key ordinary colleges and universities" added 44 colleges and universities as national key colleges and universities, totaling 64.
From 65438 to 0978, the State Council's Report on Restoring and Running National Key Colleges and Universities finally identified 88 universities as national key universities, which is the concept of key universities in the planned economy era.
Since the 1990s, the people of China and the central government of China have successively implemented several national key university construction projects, such as "985 Project", "21Project", "Comprehensive Strength Improvement Project of Central and Western Universities" and "Basic Capacity Building Project of Central and Western Universities", in order to focus on the construction of universities selected for this project, so there are about 200 key universities now defined.
1960101October 22nd Zhong Fa (1960) No.868 "Decision of the Central Committee on Increasing National Key Universities" The Central Committee decided to add 44 key universities on the basis of the original 20 (16+4) key universities.
Nankai University
13 Comprehensive University ☆ China Renmin University ☆ Peking University ☆ Fudan University ☆ University of Science and Technology of China, Jilin University, Nankai University, Nanjing University, Wuhan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Sichuan University, Shandong University, Shandong Ocean University (now China Ocean University) and Lanzhou University.
32 engineering colleges ☆ Tsinghua University ☆ Shanghai Jiaotong University ☆ Xi Jiaotong University ☆ Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (now Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), East China Institute of Water Conservancy (now Hohai University), South China University of Technology (now South China University of Technology), Beijing Institute of Technology (now Beijing Institute of Technology), Tianjin University, Dalian University of Technology (now Dalian University of Technology), Northeast University of Technology (now Huazhong University of Science and Technology) Northwestern Polytechnical University (now Northwestern Polytechnical University), Hefei University of Technology (now Hefei University of Technology), Beijing Petroleum Institute (now China Youshi University-Beijing), Beijing Institute of Geology (now China Geo University-Beijing), Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications (now Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel (now Beijing University of Science and Technology), Beijing Institute of Mining (now China University of Mining) and Beijing Railway Institute (now Beijing Jiaotong University). , Tangshan Railway Institute (Southwest Jiaotong University), Jilin University of Technology (now merged into Jilin University), Dalian Maritime University (now Dalian Maritime University), East China Institute of Chemical Technology (now East China University of Science and Technology), East China Institute of Textile Technology (now Donghua University), Tongji University, Wuhan Institute of Water Conservancy and Electric Power (now merged into Wuhan University) and Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
There are 4 normal universities ☆ East China Normal University (now East China Normal University) and Beijing Normal University.
3 Agricultural and Forestry Colleges ☆ Beijing Agricultural University (merged into China Agricultural University), Beijing Agricultural Mechanization College (merged into China Agricultural University) and Beijing Forestry College (now Beijing Forestry University).
There are 5 medical schools ☆ China Medical University (Union Medical College), ☆ Shanghai First Medical College, ☆ Beijing Medical College, Beijing College of Chinese Medicine (Beijing University of Chinese Medicine) and Zhongshan Medical College.