North China: Peking University, Tsinghua University, Nankai University, China Renmin University, Beijing Normal University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Agricultural University and Tianjin University.
Northeast China: Dalian University of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology.
East China: University of Science and Technology of China, Nanjing University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Southeast University, East China University of Science and Technology.
Central South: Sun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Southwest China: Sichuan University.
Northwest China: Xi Jiaotong University.
"High-level university" usually refers to the "national construction of high-level university graduate program" universities. Since 1990s, the people of China and the State Council have vigorously promoted the construction of high-level universities from the strategic height of national development.