On January 29, 2015, Chinese Vice premier Liu Yandong and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman signed "China-Israel Innovation Cooperation Three-year Action Plan" in Beijing, which especially proposed to co-found China-Israel 7＋7 Research-based University Alliance, with the purpose of promoting China-Israel strategic cooperation, enhancing higher education communication and accelerating China’s breakthroughs in areas such as talent cultivation, scientific research and technological innovation.

China-Israel 7+7 Research universities Alliance: Chinese universities include Tsinghua University, Peking University, Nanjing University, Renmin University of China, Shandong University, China Agricultural University and North West Agriculture and Forestry University. Israelite universities include BAR-ILAN University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, University of Haifa and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Tel Aviv University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Weizmann Institute of Science.

Tsinghua University is the leading member for the Chinese side, the alliance secretariat is XIN Center, Tsinghua University.