the universities have been given ample funding to build new research centres improve facilities hold international conferences attract worldrenowned faculty and visiting scholars and help chinese faculty attend conferences abroad the group now counts members including the bestknown universities such as peking tsinghua renmin fudan and beijing normal most are located in beijing some in other large cities and provincial capitals but not all provinces host one some other ministries also have universities but the majority are governed at the province level vocational colleges are tertiary vocational institutions