After a decade-long effort to build a world-class university system, China has established a group of Ivy League universities.
The nine-university alliance, dubbed C9, includes: Fudan University (Shanghai), the Harbin Institute of Technology (Harbin), Nanjing University (Nanjing), Peking University (Beijing), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai), Tsinghua University (Beijing), University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei), Xi’an Jiaotong University (Xi’an), and Zhejiang University (Hangzhou).