Nanjing University, short for Nanda, located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is a national key research university [41] directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and directly under the central government. It ranks among the national key construction universities of "double-class", "985 Project" and "211 Project" and is selected into "Everest Plan", "Strong Foundation Plan", "111 Plan" and "2011 Plan".