It is the so-called Everest Plan, that is, the "experimental plan for training top students in basic disciplines", which is a talent training plan issued by the Ministry of Education in response to "Qian Xuesen's question". The so-called "Qian Xuesen's question" is "Why can't our school always cultivate outstanding talents?" This is a difficult problem about the development of education in China. When Premier * * * visited the famous physicist Qian Xuesen in 2005, Qian Lao once expressed such feelings: Looking back, none of the students who have been trained for so many years can compare with the masters trained in the Republic of China! Qian Xuesen said: "At present, China has not fully developed. One of the important reasons is that no university can run a school according to the mode of cultivating talents for scientific and technological inventions. Without its own unique innovation, there will always be no outstanding talents. "

On June 365438+1October 365438+1October 2009, Qian Xuesen died in Beijing at the age of 98. On June, 2009 165438+ 10/day, Anhui University 1 1 professors jointly sent an open letter to Yuan Guiren, the new minister of education, and the national education sector: Let's face up to Qian Xuesen's problem!

In response to "Qian Xuesen's Question", the Ministry of Education quietly issued the "Experimental Plan for Training Top-notch Students in Basic Subjects", and selected 16 universities nationwide as the experimental base for training top-notch innovative talents. 16 prestigious schools: Peking University, Tsinghua University, China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Xi Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Wuhan University, Nankai University, Jilin University, Sichuan University, Shandong University, Sun Yat-sen University, Beijing Normal University and Lanzhou University. This "experiment" begins with mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and computer science. In the field of higher education, the "experimental plan for cultivating top students in basic disciplines" was circulated under the code name of "Everest Plan". In order to prevent this plan from being used for other purposes, the Ministry of Education has not publicized this plan in a big way. It is hoped that the selected schools will not publicize it and make it public, and strive to explore new ways to cultivate top-notch innovative talents in China.