In May of 1998, in a speech at the 100th anniversary of the founding of Peking University, mainland Chinese president Jiang Zemin declared that the goal is to create several top-class universities as quickly as possible.
他分析，1998 年 5 月，中共國家主席江澤民在北大百年校慶演講指出，要儘快打造出幾所一流的中國大學。