See also: Project 211, Project 985 and Double First-Class Construction.
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 and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs to establish innovation centers for the purposes of technology transfer.[1] In 2005, the Ministry of Education announced the creation of 100 innovation centers as part of the plan.[2] The plan aimed to bring in about 1,000 overseas experts from the top 100 universities and research institutes worldwide.[3]
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, Beihang University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Xidian University.