At present, the outsourcing of university canteens is invited by major group meal companies. Signing a contract after winning the bid usually takes five years. Basically, all group meal companies are only responsible for mass meals (that is, cauldron dishes), and the rest of the staple foods are arranged according to the canteen.

Aba normal university, a provincial undergraduate college located in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, was selected as the first batch of pilot colleges of the Ministry of Education's scientific work ability improvement plan (100 million projects).