Project Procedure, Organization and Management

Project 21 1 has been incorporated as a national key development project in the 9th Five - Year Plan, as well as China's medium and long-term social and economic development program with implementation starting in 1995.

1. The State Council has set up a ministerial level coordinating group for Project 211£®The group is responsible for coordination and decision-making on major policy issues. Members of the group come from the State Council, the State Planning Commission £¨SPC£©, the Ministry of Education £¨MoE £©, and the Ministry of Finance£¨MoF£©£® An office under the coordinating group has been set up, charged with the responsibility for the project implementation, management, review, and evaluation. The office, which is located in the MoE, consists of officials from the MOE, the SPC, and the MOF.

2. The approval and management procedure of Project 211 are subject to the same provisions for the State's capital construction projects. It is incumbent upon the responsible central departments and provincial £¨autonomous region , municipality £© governments , in consultation with the MoE , to conduct preliminary examination of the candidate universities and disciplinary areas that have applied for Project 211£® After the preliminary examination, the departments concerned will submit project documents to the MoE and SPC, In accordance to the overall progress and national funding capacity , the MoE together with responsible departments £¨local governments £© then submit to the SPC a report on the project feasibility studies£® The SPC will make an overall assessment and approve projects on the case by case basis according to specific objectives, project merits, the availability of funds raised by the central departments, local governments and institutions, and the possibility of special funding from the State. For those higher education institutions which meet Project 211 requirements, and are closely related to the national development priorities, equipped with self-raised funds, and do not need the State's special funding support, they can also be incorporated in the program for priority development and enjoy relevant preferential policy treatment.

3. Project 211 will adopt owner's responsibility system in management£® All departments concerned will take specific responsibility in the management of projects under their jurisdiction , and ensure quality and timely completion according to the overall planning and the implementation progress requirements.