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The key university projects played an important role in boosting education levels in China's institutions of higher learning at a time when education resources were limited. But as times have changed, the administrative means of allocating education resources among colleges need to be reformed."

HUANG HAI, a professor with Sun Yat-Sen University, talking about the "211" and "985" projects, which were initiated by the government to build world-class institutions of higher education in the 1990s, Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday. To many job-seekers, without the halo of these numbers, doors to a number of great opportunities are firmly shut.