the 10,000 Talents Program, excellent young scholars included in the 10,000 Talents Program, winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and scholars included in the China Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Program, the Beijing Scholars Plan, Capital Science and Technology Leading Talents Cultivation Program, the Beijing Distinguished Professors Support Plan, the Beijing High-level Talents Introduction and Funding Plan, the Beijing Innovation Team Construction Plan, the Science and Technology New Stars of Beijing, the Young Talents Cultivation Plan, and the Great Wall Scholars Cultivation Plan. Among CNU's teachers, there are 5 members of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 11 members of the Discipline Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 5 members of the National Cultural Masters and the Four Batches Talents, 15 members of the Beijing Cultural Masters and the Four Batches Talents, and 3 innovation teams under the Ministry of Education. Another 65 teachers have won Zeng Xianzi Teachers’ Award, Henry Fok Young Teachers’ Teaching Award and Scientific Research Award. In 2003, CNU was declared as Outstanding University in Undergraduate Teaching in the undergraduate teaching evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education. So far, CNU has 7 national characteristic majors, 10 municipal characteristic majors, 6 national teaching teams, 9 municipal teaching teams, 8 municipal high-quality undergraduate programs, 8 pieces of municipal high-quality undergraduate courseware, 3 national innovation and experiment zones for talents training mode, 1 municipal innovation pilot zone for talents training mode, 1 national off-campus practice and education base for college students, and 2 municipal demonstration campus innovation and practice bases of higher education. As for courses, CNU has 12 national excellent courses, 29 municipal excellent courses and 1 national bilingual teaching demonstration course. As for textbooks, CNU has 20 textbooks for the 11th Five-year Plan of the Ministry of Education, 5 national excellent textbooks, 1 municipal classical textbook of higher education, 106 municipal excellent textbooks of higher education and 16 national textbooks for undergraduate education in the 12th Five-year Plan. CNU also has excellent open classes, including 1 national excellent video open class, 6 national excellent resource sharing classes, 8 national excellent resource sharing classes for teaching and education and 10 national first-class undergraduate classes. In addition, 2 teachers in CNU hold the National Outstanding Teacher Award and 34 hold the Beijing Municipal Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2008, CNU was included in the National Innovative Experiment Program for