The Higher Education Institution Academic Discipline Innovation and Talent Introduction Plan (), best known as Plan 111 and Project 111 (), is a higher education development project initiated in 2006 by the
Ministry of Education
An education ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for education. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of Education, Department of Education, and Ministry of Pub ...
and the
State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs
The State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA; ) is an external name used by China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. SAFEA was previously its own agency of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) that ...
to establish innovation centers for the purposes of
technology transfer
Technology transfer (TT), also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the person or organization that owns or holds it to another person or organization, in an attempt to transform invent ...
.
In 2005, the Ministry of Education announced the creation of 100 innovation centers as part of the plan. The plan aimed to bring in about 1,000 overseas experts from the top 100 universities and research institutes worldwide.
Plan 111 became an avenue for foreign technology transfer of both civilian and military application.
The plan established centers at universities that support defense-related research and development such as
Harbin Engineering University,
Beijing Institute of Technology
The Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) is a Public university, public, Comprehensive school, comprehensive, Research university, research university located in Haidian District, Haidian District, Beijing City, China. The university is part o ...
,
Beihang University
Beihang University (BUAA; formerly as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The univers ...
,
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU; ) is a public science and engineering university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985 ...
,
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and
Xidian University.
See also
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Thousand Talents Program (China)
The Thousand Talents Plan or Thousand Talents Program (TTP), or Overseas High-Level Talent Recruitment Programs is a program by the government of the People's Republic of China to recruit experts in science and technology from abroad, principally ...
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State Key Laboratory
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Double First Class University Plan
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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 ...
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863 Program
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Science and technology in China
Science and technology in the People's Republic of China have developed rapidly since the 1980s to the 2020s, with major scientific and technological progress over the last four decades. From the 1980s to the 1990s, the government of the P ...
References
External links
Chinese Talent Program Tracker at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology
{{Education of the People's Republic of China
2006 establishments in China
Higher education in China
Technology transfer
China Projects