Fei Lai/Shanghai Daily news

More than 93 percent of the city's 41 public universities and colleges have established central control rooms to safeguard student safety.

A total of 182 million yuan (US$26.59 million) has been spent on campus security since 2007 by those universities and colleges, and altogether 12,784 camera monitoring devices, 7,986 intrusion detection devices and 2,438 access control systems had been installed by the end of October, officials from the Shanghai Education Commission said at a forum yesterday.