National special plans, university special plans, and local special plans are subordinate to the three major plans of the college entrance examination.

1. The national special plan refers to a special plan that specially arranges about 10,000 students in the national enrollment plan every year, mainly for undergraduate enrollment plans. For the undergraduate program, the enrollment and training tasks are jointly undertaken by the central colleges and universities and the local colleges and universities that recruit students in the undergraduate batch. For the vocational program, the enrollment and training tasks are undertaken by the national demonstration (including backbone) higher vocational schools.

2. The special plan for colleges and universities, also known as separate enrollment for rural students, is a preferential policy introduced by the state to better promote educational equity and allow more rural students to go to college. The special program for colleges and universities mainly recruits diligent and studious rural students with excellent grades in high schools below counties (including county-level cities) in remote, poor, ethnic and other areas. The specific implementation area is determined by the relevant provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) based on the above requirements.

3. Local special plans recruit rural students from the implementation areas of each province (autonomous region, city), and the enrollment plan shall in principle be no less than 3% of the annual undergraduate enrollment scale of the relevant colleges and universities. Local special plans recruit rural students from the implementation areas of each province (autonomous region, municipality), and are undertaken by key universities affiliated to each province (autonomous region, municipality).

National Special Project

National Special Project, the full name is the National Key Research and Development Plan, is a scientific and technological research and development plan implemented by the country in response to specific needs in the fields of national strategy, national security, national economy and people's livelihood. Its main purpose is to actively promote my country's development in a series of major scientific issues, technological reform, energy conservation and emission reduction, resource protection and other fields, and to have strong international competitiveness in some key core areas.

Local special projects

Local special projects are science and technology development plans funded and implemented by governments at all levels in various places. They are also called local science and technology projects. They are a very important task in local economic and social development. . Its main contents include building host cities, improving regional competitiveness and promoting innovation in the region. It aims to strengthen the region's independent innovation capabilities and the construction of a modern industrial system and promote local economic development.

Special projects for universities

Special projects for universities refer to plans by the Ministry of Education and other relevant national departments to support the research work of universities by assigning project tasks or setting up corresponding funds. Its main purpose is to enhance the scientific research capabilities and awareness of independent innovation in universities, promote the overall level of higher education in our country, and build a group of outstanding university scientific and technological innovation teams with higher levels.

In general, national special projects, local special projects and university special projects are all important plans to promote scientific and technological research and development. Their implementation directions and goals are different, but they all hope to achieve significant results in their respective fields and make positive contributions to our country's modernization drive.