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About PKU Research

Peking University is a comprehensive and national key university. The campus, known as "Yan Yuan"the garden of Yan, is situated at Haidian District in the western suburb of Beijing, with a total area of 2,743,532 square metres (or 274 hectares). It stands near to the Yuanmingyuan Garden and the Summer Palace.

Peking University is proud of its outstanding faculty, including 53 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 7 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and 14 members of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
The university has effectively combined research on important scientific subjects with the training of personnel with a high level of specialized knowledge and professional skill as demanded by the country's socialist modernization. It strives not only for improvements in teaching and research work, but also for the promotion of interaction and mutual promotion among various disciplines. 

Thus Peking University has become a center for teaching and research and a university of a new type, embracing diverse branches of learning such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, and sciences of medicine, management, and education. Its aim is to rank among the world's best universities in the future. 
 
Research Strength

  
Facility Development  
 
In 2009, Peking University launched funding to support facility research and development, which was the first domestic university funding aiming to promote research environment construction. By now, 15 peer reviewed projects were supported (nearly half million US$).  In 2011, NSFC and MoST launched the National Major Research Instruments and Facilities Programs respectively.  Peking University actively involved in these programs and awarded several major grants.


Academic Disciplines Overview
 
According to the U.S. "Essential Science Indicators (ESI)" The latest data show that in all of the 22 academic disciplines at PKU, 18 disciplines has achieved the quality of the top 1% of the global research institutions, a level of 1% of the world's top universities and research institutions, which makes PKU the best ranked universities in Mainland China. Among them, The University’s Chemistry and Materials Science have reached the global top 0.1%, while Physics, Clinical Medicine, Engineering Science, Earth Science, Mathematics and other disciplines have reached the top global 0.25%.  PKU’s  Economics and Business Studies is the only university in mainland China to reach the global 1% of the academic disciplines.
 
ESI Feilds  Top 1%  
 
  • 1.  Mathematics
  • 2.  Physics
  • 3.  Chemistry
  • 4.  Geosciences
  • 5.  Agricultural Sciences
  • 6.  Biology and Biochemistry
  • 7.  Plant and Animal Science
  • 8.  Neuroscience and Behavior
  • 9.  Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • 10. Psychiatry/Psychology
  • 11. Pharmacy and Toxicology
  • 12. Clinical Medicine
  • 13. Engineering
  • 14. Materials Science
  • 15. Environmental and Ecology
  • 16. Computer Science
  • 17. General Social Sciences
  • 18. Economics & Business
Important Research Highlights
 
 
The Peking University has made a series of important academic research achievements to the world’s scientific community.  For example: PKU have participated in the world's first synthetic bovine insulin research, PKU produced the smallest Single-walled carbon nanotubes, and PKU designed the first million times electronic digital computer.
 
Some of other significant achievements includes:
 
  • Chinese Laser Phototypesetting System
  • MEMS research groups
  • Bulk MEMS Chip Manufacturing Technology,
  • Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Research Center
  • GaN-based Short-wavelength Lasers,
  • CO separation technology
  • Tumor Cell Antigen NY-ESO-1b Peptide Vaccine
  • PKUnity-863CPU Core System