The Seven Sons of National Defence is a Chinese collegiate grouping comprising seven public research universities who collaborate closely with the
People’s Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...
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Overview
Three quarters of university graduates recruited by defense related
state-owned enterprises in China come from the Seven Sons. The Seven Sons devote at least half of their research budgets to military products.
According to the
Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; abbreviated as Hoover) is an American public policy think tank and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, an ...
the Seven Sons "operate as prime pathways for harvesting US research and diverting it to military applications."
The Seven Sons are all supervised by the
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Chinese government, established in March 2008, is the state agency of the People's Republic of China responsible for regulation and development of the postal service, Internet, wireless ...
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Members
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Northwestern Polytechnical University
Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU; ) is a national key public research university in Xi'an, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The university is a Chinese national Class A Double ...
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Harbin Engineering University
Harbin Engineering University (HEU; ) was founded in 1953 in Harbin, China. It offers more than 150-degree programs, 48 of which are conducted in English.
Designated a Double First Class University and a former Project 211 university, HEU is ...
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Harbin Institute of Technology
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Beihang University
Beihang University, previously known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (), abbreviated as BUAA or Beihang ( zh, c=北航, p=), is a national public research university located in Beijing, China, specializing in engineering, t ...
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Beijing Institute of Technology
Beijing Institute of Technology (abbreviated BIT; Simplified Chinese characters, Simplified Chinese: 北京理工大学; Traditional Chinese characters, Traditional Chinese: 北京理工大學; pinyin: Běijīng Lǐgōng Dàxué), is a National u ...
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Nanjing University of Science and Technology
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Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
History
In 2020 the American government banned graduate students from the Seven Sons from entering the United States.
See also
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Seven Sisters (colleges)
The Seven Sisters refers to seven highly selective liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges: Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College ar ...
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C9 League
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Excellence League
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Project 985
Project 985 () was a terminated project that was first announced by General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Jiang Zemin at the 100th anniversary of Peking University on May 4, 1998, to promote the development and reputation of the C ...
References
{{People's Liberation Army
Colloquial terms for groups of universities and colleges