Project 211

Map showing major universities of China. Universities in Project 211 are shown in pink color

Project 211 (Chinese: 211工程; pinyin: 211 gōngchéng) is a project of National Key Universities and colleges initiated in 1995 by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, with the intent of raising the research standards of high-level universities and cultivating strategies for socio-economic development. During the first phase of the project, from 1996 to 2000, approximately US$2.2 billion was distributed.[1]

China today has 116 institutions of higher education (about 6 percent) designated as 211 Project institutions for having met certain scientific, technical, and human resources standards and offer advanced degree programs). Project 211 schools take on the responsibility of training four-fifths of doctoral students, two-thirds of graduate students, half of students from abroad and one-third of undergraduates. They offer 85% of the state's key subjects, hold 96 percent of the state's key laboratories, and consume 70% of scientific research funding.[2]

The name for the project comes from an abbreviation of the slogan "面向21世纪，办好100所高校 (For the 21st century, to manage 100 universities successfully)". 100 was approximate number of participating universities.[3]

Since 2014, Project 211 was less mentioned and gradually succeeded by a new project called plan 111 (Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities).[4][5]

In September 2017, a related plan called the Double First Class University Plan was announced.[6][7] It was unclear whether this plan represents a new way of ranking universities in China,[6] or replaces Project 211 and Project 985[7]


List of universities

See also

References

  1. ↑ Li Lixu (2004). "China's Higher Education Reform 1998-2003: A Summary" (PDF). Asia Pacific Education Review. V (1): 14–22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-23.
  2. ↑ Over 10 billion yuan to be invested in "211 Project" - People's Daily Online Archived 2008-04-28 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ ""211工程"大事记". Ministry of Education, PRC (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2016-11-22.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-09-09. Retrieved 2017-09-09. 南京有高校称“211建设”已暂停
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-09-09. Retrieved 2017-09-09. 985、211取消后 仅88所高校入选“111计划”（名单）
  6. 1 2 "China to develop 42 world-class universities". People's Daily. 21 September 2017.
  7. 1 2 "双一流大学 (shuāngyīliú dàxué): Double top university plan". Archived from the original on 2017-09-25.
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