Tsinghua University, abbreviated as "Tsinghua", located in Haidian District, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It ranks among the national "Double First Class", "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project" and is selected as "201Plan" and "Everest".
Song Lian League, China University Presidents Association, Asian University Alliance, Pacific Rim University Alliance, China-Russia Comprehensive University Alliance, Tsinghua-Cambridge-MIT Low-carbon University Alliance, and China High-level Personnel Training and Science and Technology Research Base are known as "the cradle of red engineers".