Simplified Chinese 九校联盟 Hanyu Pinyin Yale Romanization Gau2 haau6 Lyun4 mang4 | Traditional Chinese 九校聯盟 Wade–Giles Chiu-hsiao Lien-meng | |
Yale Romanization Jyou3 syau4 Lyan2 meng2 | ||
The C9 League is an alliance of nine elite universities in mainland China, analogous to the AAU and the Ivy League in the United States, the U15 in Canada, the Russell Group in the UK, and the Go8 in Australia. The members of the C9 League are Fudan University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Nanjing University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China, Xi'an Jiaotong University, and Zhejiang University. Together they account for 3% of the country's researchers but receive 10% of national research expenditures. They produce 20% of the academic publications and 30% of total citations.
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History
The C9 League was established by the Chinese central government on May 4, 1998 with the goal of advancing the Chinese higher education system. The establishment of the C9 League was a part of the Chinese central government's Project 985. In the first phase, the nine universities were selected and allocated funding for an initial period of three years. On October 10, 2009, these nine universities made up the C9 League.
Goals
The aim of the C9 is to serve as a network of elite universities to improve education and research in China. More importantly, they have committed themselves to world-class excellence. However, the central government also directs special resources to a number of other universities outside the C9 League to ensure that they reach the goal to become world class universities, such as Renmin University of China, Wuhan University and Sun Yat-sen University.