Hunan University (simplified Chinese: 湖南大学; traditional Chinese: 湖南大學; pinyin: Húnán Dàxué), in Changsha, Hunan, is a member of the Project 985 and the Project 211, which are sponsored by the Ministry of Education of China aiming to become a world-class university.[4] It is an elite university, with the Double First Class University status, a major government initiative to comprehensively develop a group of Chinese elite universities into "world-class universities" by 2050.[5]