Peking University, located in Haidian District, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). Ranked among the "Double First-class", "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project", and was selected as "Independent Auditing Unit for Degree Authorization" and "Experimental Plan for Training Top Students in Basic Subjects".
The "University Innovation Ability Enhancement Plan" and the "University Discipline Innovation Introduction Plan" are the Nine Universities Alliance, Song Lian Alliance, China University Presidents Association, Jinggang University Alliance, Global University Advanced Research Institute Alliance, Asian University Alliance, Asian University Students' Collective Action Exchange Plan, East Asia Research University Association, International Research University Alliance, Pacific Rim University Alliance, Global University Presidents Forum, 2 1 century academic alliance and four East Asia forums respectively.
Peking University Library is the first batch of national key protection units of ancient books approved by the people of China and the State Council. By the end of 20 17, the Peking University General Library and its branch libraries had nearly 8 million paper books, including 50,000 selected China ancient books/KLOC-0, including 200,000 rare books from the 5th century to the 6th century, in addition to dissertations from Peking University and yenching university and donations from celebrities.