Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities, Plan 111, also be referred to as Project 111 or 111 Project (Chinese: 111计划, 高等学校学科创新引智计划; pinyin: 111 jìhuà) is a project initiated in 2006 by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (MOE) and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) to establish innovation centers for the purposes of technology transfer.^[1][2] In 2005, the MOE announced the creation of 100 innovation centers as part of the plan.^[3] The plan aimed to bring in about 1,000 overseas experts from the top 100 universities and research institutes worldwide.^[4]

Plan 111 became an avenue for foreign technology transfer of both civilian and military application.^[1] The plan established centers at universities that support defense-related research and development such as Harbin Engineering University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beihang University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Xidian University.^[1]