Plan 111

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. 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, Beihang University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Xidian University.