The Ministry of Education (MOE) decided to build a public resource sharing system under the "211 Project", and CALIS and CERNET came into being.
[1] In November 1998, the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) officially approved the construction of the CALIS project.
As of July 2001, the first phase of CALIS was checked and accepted by the MOE, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), and the Ministry of Finance (MOF).
[2][3] In September 2002, the MOE, the NDRC and the MOF decided to combine the CALIS Phase II construction with the Chinese-America Digital Academic Library.
[4] As one of the largest resource sharing systems in the world, CALIS incorporates information from a wide range of libraries and institutions.