Project 985

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Chinese government higher education initiative university excellence program

Project 985 is a Chinese government initiative launched in 1998 to develop a group of elite universities into world-class institutions through targeted funding and support.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Project 985 canonical	20
Former Project 985 Innovation Platform	1
Project 985 (through Harbin Institute of Technology)	1
Project 985 Innovation Platform	1
Project 985 platform	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Chinese government higher education initiative ⓘ university excellence program ⓘ
aim	build high-level research universities ⓘ improve global university rankings of Chinese institutions ⓘ
announcedBy	Jiang Zemin ⓘ
announcedOnOccasionOf	100th anniversary of Peking University ⓘ
beneficiaryType	public universities ⓘ
benefits	increased research funding for selected universities ⓘ infrastructure development for universities ⓘ support for key disciplines ⓘ talent recruitment programs ⓘ
contributedTo	expansion of research output in Chinese universities ⓘ rise of Chinese universities in global rankings ⓘ
country	China ⓘ
criticizedFor	overemphasis on rankings and quantitative indicators ⓘ regional inequality in higher education resources ⓘ
effect	increased concentration of resources in top universities ⓘ widened gap between elite and non-elite universities ⓘ
focus	key disciplines ⓘ research universities ⓘ
fundingType	targeted government funding ⓘ
governingLevel	central government program ⓘ
hasChineseName	985工程 ⓘ
implementedBy	State Council of China ⓘ surface form: Chinese central government Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China ⓘ
inception	1998 ⓘ
initialMembers	Peking University ⓘ Tsinghua University ⓘ
languageOfOfficialName	Chinese ⓘ
namedAfter	May 1998 announcement date ⓘ
policyArea	higher education ⓘ science and technology development ⓘ
policyInstrument	selective funding allocation ⓘ
purpose	concentrate resources on elite universities ⓘ develop world-class universities in China ⓘ enhance international competitiveness of Chinese higher education ⓘ
region	China ⓘ surface form: Mainland China
relatedTo	Double First Class University Plan ⓘ Project 211 ⓘ
scope	national ⓘ
sector	tertiary education ⓘ
selectionCriteria	academic reputation ⓘ research strength ⓘ strategic national importance ⓘ
status	policy framework largely integrated into Double First Class initiative ⓘ
supersededBy	Double First Class University Plan ⓘ
target	elite universities in China ⓘ
timePeriod	late 1990s–2010s ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Project 985
Description of subject: Project 985 is a Chinese government initiative launched in 1998 to develop a group of elite universities into world-class institutions through targeted funding and support.

Referenced by (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wuhan University → affiliation → Project 985 ⓘ

Central China Normal University → memberOf → Project 985 ⓘ

this entity surface form: Former Project 985 Innovation Platform

Huazhong University of Science and Technology → memberOf → Project 985 ⓘ

Double First Class University Plan → replaces → Project 985 ⓘ

Double First Class University Plan → successorTo → Project 985 ⓘ

Project 211 → relatedTo → Project 985 ⓘ

Sun Yat-sen University → memberOf → Project 985 ⓘ

Nankai University → memberOf → Project 985 ⓘ

Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen campus → partOfProject → Project 985 ⓘ

this entity surface form: Project 985 (through Harbin Institute of Technology)

Northeastern University (China) → affiliation → Project 985 ⓘ

this entity surface form: Project 985 platform

Xi'an Jiaotong University → memberOf → Project 985 ⓘ

Northwestern Polytechnical University → memberOf → Project 985 ⓘ

Southeast University → memberOf → Project 985 ⓘ

Double First Class Plan → replaces → Project 985 ⓘ

Double First Class Plan → continuityWith → Project 985 ⓘ

Double First Class Plan → successorTo → Project 985 ⓘ

Chongqing University → memberOf → Project 985 ⓘ

C9 League (early member in teacher education) → predecessorProgram → Project 985 ⓘ

subject surface form: C9 League

C9 League → associatedWith → Project 985 ⓘ

SCUT → affiliation → Project 985 ⓘ

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China → affiliation → Project 985 ⓘ

this entity surface form: Project 985 Innovation Platform

Shandong University → isMemberOf → Project 985 ⓘ

Lanzhou University → memberOf → Project 985 ⓘ

China Agricultural University → memberOf → Project 985 ⓘ