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Seven Sons Of National Defence
The Seven Sons of National Defence () or colloquially G7 (Guofang 7) is a grouping of the public universities affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. They are widely believed to have close scientific research partnerships and projects with the People's Liberation Army. However, these are not official part of the Academic institutions of the Chinese armed forces. Universities The universities of the Seven Sons of National Defence include: * Beihang University in Haidian, Beijing * Beijing Institute of Technology in Haidian, Beijing * Harbin Engineering University in Harbin, Heilongjiang * Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, Heilongjiang * Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Nanjing, Jiangsu * Nanjing University of Science and Technology in Nanjing, Jiangsu * Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi Views Three quarters of university graduates recruited by defense related state-owned enterprises in Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Industry And Information Technology
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is the sixth-ranked executive department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It is responsible for regulation and development of the postal service, Internet, wireless, broadcasting, communications, production of electronic and information goods, software industry and the promotion of the national knowledge economy. History In 2004, the MIIT began the Connecting Every Village Project to promote universal access to telecommunication and internet services in rural China. The MIIT required that six state-owned companies, including the main telecommunications and internet providers China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom, build the communications infrastructure and assist in financing the project. Beginning in late 2009, the program began building rural telecenters each of which had at least one telephone, computer, and internet connectivity. Approximately 90,000 rural telecenters were built by 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Government Of The United States
The Federal Government of the United States of America (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the Federation#Federal governments, national government of the United States. The U.S. federal government is composed of three distinct branches: United States Congress, legislative, President of the United States, executive, and Federal judiciary of the United States, judicial. Powers of these three branches are defined and vested by the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution, which has been in continuous effect since May 4, 1789. The powers and duties of these branches are further defined by Act of Congress, Acts of Congress, including the creation of United States federal executive departments, executive departments and courts subordinate to the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Supreme Court. In the Federalism in the United States, federal division of power, the federal government shares sovereignty with each of the 50 states in their respective t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colloquial Terms For Groups Of Universities And Colleges
Colloquialism (also called ''colloquial language'', ''colloquial speech'', ''everyday language'', or ''general parlance'') is the linguistic style used for casual and informal communication. It is the most common form of speech in conversation among persons in friendship, familial, intimate, and other informal contexts. Colloquialism is characterized by the usage of figurative language, contractions, filler words, interjections, and other informalities such as slang. In contrast to formal and professional communications, colloquial speech does not adhere to grammar and syntax rules and thus may be considered inappropriate and impolite in situations and settings where etiquette is expected or required. It has a rapidly changing lexicon and can also be distinguished by its usage of formulations with incomplete logical and syntactic ordering. Definition Colloquialism is distinct from formal speech or formal writing.colloquial. (n.d.) Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proclamation 10043
Proclamation 10043 is a presidential proclamation signed by Donald Trump, the 45th US president, on May 29, 2020, in order to prohibit students in the People's Republic of China associated with the People's Liberation Army from obtaining F visas or J visas. Effect As was reported by Reuters in Sep 2020, visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students had been canceled. In June 2021, a survey of 310 students showed that most of students who had been rejected studied at one of the following eight universities: # Beihang University # Beijing Institute of Technology # Harbin Institute of Technology # Harbin Engineering University # Northwestern Polytechnical University # Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics # Nanjing University of Science and Technology # Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Otherwise, they were funded by China Scholarship Council. Response On June 10, 2021, the Association of American Universities, the American Council of Education, and 39 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project 211
Project 211 ( zh, c=, links=no, s=211工程) was a higher education development and sponsorship scheme of the government of China for "preparing approximately 100 universities for the 21st century", initiated in November 1995. There were 115 universities and colleges selected to be part of this program. Project 211 and Project 985 were both initiated by the Jiang Zemin administration in 1990s. They were nullified in 2016 and replaced by the Double First-Class Construction in 2017, under the Xi Jinping general secretaryship. Etymology Project 211 was a project of developing comprehensive universities and colleges initiated in 1995 by the then National Education Commission of China, with the intent of raising the research standards of comprehensive universities and cultivating strategies for socio-economic development. The name for the project comes from an abbreviation of the slogan "In preparation for the 21st century, successfully running 100 higher education institutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project 985
Project 985 () was a higher education development and sponsorship scheme of the Chinese central government for creating world-class higher education institutions, initiated in May 1998. There were 39 universities selected to be part of this program, which are mostly considered top-tier institutions in mainland China. Project 211 and Project 985 were both initiated by the Jiang Zemin Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as Chairman of the Central Mil ... Administration in 1990s. They were nullified in 2016 and replaced by the Double First-Class Construction in 2017, under the Xi Jinping general secretaryship. History On May 4, 1998, Jiang Zemin stated at the 100th anniversary of Peking University that, "in order to achieve modernization, our country must have several first-class universitie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double First-Class Construction
The World First-Class Universities and First-Class Academic Disciplines Construction (), together known as Double First-Class Construction (), is a higher education development and sponsorship scheme of the Chinese central government, initiated in 2015. There are 147 universities and colleges selected to be part of the program. The program was initiated by the Xi Jinping general secretaryship in 2015 to replace the original higher education development programs Project 211 and Project 985, established by the Jiang Zemin administration in the 1990s. History In October 2015, the State Council of China published the "Overall Plan for Promoting the Construction of World First-Class Universities and First-Class Disciplines" (Double First-Class Construction), which made new arrangements for the development of higher education in China, replacing previous higher education projects. In June 2016, the Ministry of Education of China announced that the Project 211 and Project 985 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Excellence League
The Excellence League (E9 League; ) is an alliance of nine engineering-focused universities in China. The association was established in 2010 at Tianjin University. Membership The Excellence League comprises nine public universities, including: * Beijing Institute of Technology – Beijing * Chongqing University – Chongqing * Dalian University of Technology – Dalian, Liaoning * Southeast University – Nanjing, Jiangsu * Harbin Institute of Technology – Harbin, Heilongjiang * South China University of Technology – Guangzhou, Guangdong * Tianjin University – Tianjin * Tongji University – Shanghai * Northwestern Polytechnical University – Xi'an, Shaanxi All Excellence League schools are part of the former Project 985, Project 211, Plan 111, as well as the current Double First Class University Plan. Rankings The following are the rankings of the E9 schools in the four major world university rankings that are recognized by governments in multiple countries and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C9 League
The C9 League is an inter-university seminar composed of nine public universities in China. It was established on May 4, 1998, at the 100th anniversary of Peking University. These elite universities are associated with academic excellence and highly selective admissions. The C9 League is colloquially known as the Chinese Ivy League. Membership The C9 league comprises nine public universities: *Fudan University – Shanghai *Shanghai Jiao Tong University – Shanghai * Harbin Institute of Technology – Harbin, Heilongjiang * Nanjing University – Nanjing, Jiangsu *Peking University – Beijing *Tsinghua University – Beijing *University of Science and Technology of China – Hefei, Anhui *Xi'an Jiaotong University – Xi'an, Shaanxi *Zhejiang University – Hangzhou, Zhejiang ) , translit_lang1_type2 = , translit_lang1_info2 = ( Hangzhounese) ( Ningbonese) (Wenzhounese) , image_skyline = 玉甑峰全貌 - panoramio.jpg , image_caption = View of the Yanda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Sisters (colleges)
The Seven Sisters are a group of seven private liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College are still women's colleges. Vassar College became coeducational in 1969 and Radcliffe College's undergraduate functions were absorbed in 1999 by Harvard College, also continuing on as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The name ''Seven Sisters'' is a reference to the Greek myth of the Pleiades, goddesses immortalized as stars in the sky: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope. These colleges were created in the 19th century to provide women with the educational equivalent to the historically all-male Ivy League colleges. ( Cornell, one of the eight Ivy League schools, has been open to accepting women since its founding, and admitted Jennie Spencer in 1870). History 20th century The consortium was found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace and formerly The Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution, and Peace) is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University, it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. It is widely described as conservative, although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan. The institution began in 1919 as a library founded by Stanford alumnus Herbert Hoover prior to his presidency in order to house his archives gathered during World War I. The well-known Hoover Tower was built to house the archives, then known as the Hoover War Collection (now the Hoover Institution Library and Archives), and contained material related to World War I, World War II, and other global events. The collection was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It consists of four Military branch, services—People's Liberation Army Ground Force, Ground Force, People's Liberation Army Navy, Navy, People's Liberation Army Air Force, Air Force, and People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, Rocket Force—and four arms—People's Liberation Army Aerospace Force, Aerospace Force, People's Liberation Army Cyberspace Force, Cyberspace Force, People's Liberation Army Information Support Force, Information Support Force, and People's Liberation Army Joint Logistics Support Force, Joint Logistics Support Force. It is led by the Central Military Commission (China), Central Military Commission (CMC) with its Chairman of the Central Military Commission (China), chairman as Supreme Military Command of the People's Republic of China, commander-in-chief. The PLA can trace its origins during the Republic of China (1912– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
