According to Yang Dongping, director of the Institute of Higher Education of Beijing Institute of Technology, the generation of university presidents in China is basically handled in the way of party and government cadres, and directly appointed by superiors. Among them, 38 well-known domestic universities in the "985 Project" were directly managed and hired by the Central Organization Department.

The list of 38 institutions included in the "985 Project" is as follows:

Beijing

Tsinghua University

Peking University

Renmin University of China

Beijing Normal University

Beijing Institute of Technology

China Agricultural University

Minzu University of China

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Shanghai

Fudan University

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Tongji University

Tianjin

Nankai University

Tianjin University

Chongqing

Chongqing University

Zhejiang Province

Zhejiang University

Jiangsu Province

Nanjing University

Southeast China University

Liaoning province

Northeastern University

Dalian University of Technology

Hunan

Central South University

National University of Defense Technology/NUDT

Hunan university

Sichuan Province

Sichuan University

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)

Jilin province

Jilin University

Fujian Province

Xiamen University

Shandong (province)

Shandong University

Chinese Marine University

Hubei province

Wuhan University

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Shanxi province

Xi’an Jiaotong University

Northwestern Polytechnical University

Northwest A&F university

Guangdong

Sun Yat-sen University

South China University of Technology

Anhui province

The United States Tariff Commission.

Heilongjiang province

Harbin Institute of Technology

Gansu

Lanzhou University