[citation needed] In 1970, due to deteriorating relations with the former USSR, the People's Liberation Army Military Engineering Institute, which was located in Harbin, was disassembled.[5] The Taicang Campus, located at the border between Suzhou and Shanghai, is currently under construction and will start to run in September 2021.Supported by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the former Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, NPU has received a 1.58 billion CNY (US$252.8 million) investment in infrastructure constructions from the central government and there're more than 20 construction projects running currently including the Material Science Building, the Innovation Science and Technology Building, the Reconstruction of Dangerous and Old Apartments after the earthquake, the #1 Student Apartment in the Youyi Campus and the New Library, Infrastructure Plan I & II, the High-tech Experimental Research Center and others in the Chang'an Campus.In the seventh and eighth Five-year plan, NPU was listed as one of the 15 National Key Developing Universities.[2] Since its establishment, NPU has educated more than 150,000 high level technicians and researchers for China's defense industry and national economy development.[2] And, among NPU's alumni, there are more than 30 fellows of the CAS and the CAE, 30 generals in PLA and 6 recipients of China's TOP 10 Outstanding Youth Elite.[citation needed] The aim of this school is to provide the most elite students of NPU with the best resources so that they can become future leaders in their fields.