Seven Sons of National Defence
| Seven Sons of National Defence | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 国防七子 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 國防七子 | ||||||
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The Seven Sons of National Defence (Chinese: 国防七子) or colloquially G7 (Guofang 7) is a grouping of the public universities affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. They are widely believed to have close scientific research partnerships and projects with the People's Liberation Army. However, these are not official part of the Academic institutions of the Chinese armed forces.