Wuhan University is a 985 university. The history of the school can be traced back to 1893, and Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, established a self-improvement school at the invitation of the Qing government. After inheritance and evolution, it was named National Wuhan University in 1928, which was the first batch of national universities in modern China.
In 2000, Wuhan University merged with Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping and Hubei Medical University to form the new Wuhan University. According to statistics, there are115211universities and 39 985 universities in China.
2 1 1 Project and 985 Project Brief Introduction
The "2 1 1" project, that is, to build about 100 colleges and universities and a number of key disciplines in 2 1 century, is the largest and highest-level key construction work initiated by the state in the field of higher education since the founding of New China, and it is an important measure for the China government to implement the strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education".
Project 985 1998 was put forward at the conference to celebrate the 0/00th anniversary of the founding of Peking University. "In order to realize modernization, China should have a number of first-class universities with world-class standards." The first phase of the 985 Project was first implemented in Peking University and Tsinghua University.
By July 2020, there were 377 full-time teachers1person, including more than 2,930 full-time professors, including 9 academicians of China Academy of Sciences, 6 academicians of China Academy of Engineering, 3 academicians of Eurasian Academy of Sciences, 7 senior professors of humanities and social sciences, 22 chief scientists of "973 Project" (including major national basic research plan) and 6 experts in the field of "863 Project".
There are 4 national innovative research groups, 65 winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 0/5 national famous teachers/KLOC, and 23 winners of the National "Hundred Million Talents Project" in the new century; * * * National Teaching Team 13.