Central South University was founded in 2000, located in Changsha City, Hunan Province. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and the central government. It is a "double-class", "985 Project" and "2 1 1 engineering" university. This school was selected into "11/plan", "201/plan", "excellent engineer education and training plan", "excellent legal talent education and training plan" and the national postgraduate plan for building a high-level university. It is one of the five universities in China to implement joint study of bachelor's degree and doctoral degree.