Students at universities eat the majority of their meals in canteens on campus but, unlike American schools, these dining halls offer a number of different regional cuisines (Se chuan, Cantonese, Shanghainese, etc.). This is because the dining system is not run by a single food service or staffed by the university. Instead the government contracts individual vendors and partially subsidizes them to make the meals affordable. The arrangement is an interesting coupling of government control and competitive capitalism.