An Important Way for the Balanced Development of China’s Higher Education: First-class Universities to the Central and Western Regions

Abstract

With the support of the higher education institutions in the western region and the promotion of the higher education revitalization plan in the central and western regions, China has basically solved the problem of “higher education poverty in the central and western regions”, but the relationship between supply and demand of high quality higher education is still very tense, especially in the central and western high quality higher education. Being lack of resources and a small number of first-class universities, the uneven geographical distribution of high-quality higher education resources has become the main factor restricting the overall development of China’s higher education. How to rationally allocate high-quality higher education resources in the east to the central and western regions, the feasibility of first-class universities to the central and western schools, and the promotion of policies to solve the central and western are of great significance.

Keywords: higher education balance, first-class university, central and western school

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-9-06

Publication date:March 31^st 2019