Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom, and Boston in the United States are all fascinating college towns, if Boston can be regarded as a city, then people prefer to use the town to describe Cambridge and Oxford.

The domestic government hopes to expand the scale of the university's school through the merger, improve the university's strength, but the sudden acceleration of the enrollment scale has also brought a series of problems, the domestic higher education has been criticized for a long time, and college students have changed from a respected identity to a derogatory term.

In the development plan of Huixun District, it is proposed to build a university town within the scope of an international tourist resort, and to make the university town a part of the international tourist resort.

In Bao Feiyang's view, a university town is not a university town that can become a university town by simply building a few new campuses of universities. Later, the construction of university towns and new campuses in China arose, which was to simply build new campuses of several universities, or add a high-tech park, hoping to realize the combination of universities and industries, but in fact, it was still taking the road of industry first.

The better ones in China in this regard may be Zhongguancun and Dianhai University Town, because the innate conditions of Dianhai are so good, almost all the best schools and scientific research institutes in Pingjing are concentrated there, so Dianhai University Town is not built, but ...... It's right there.

Bao Feiyang hopes that the university town in Huixun District will be different from the university towns that will flock to various places in the future, and he hopes that the university town in Huixun District will not only have universities and students, but also have academic height and academic atmosphere. The location of the university town planned in Huixun District is adjacent to the Chunjiang High-tech Park, so the Huixun University Town is not ready to engage in too many industrialized things, industrialized things can allow colleges and universities to cooperate with Chunjiang High-tech Park, and the high-tech park and the university town cooperate to complement each other, and what the university town should do is to create an academic atmosphere in the university town, Bao Feiyang feels that the universities in Xingang have done better in this regard.

Li Weizhong smiled and said: "I myself and Xingang University of Science and Technology are very interested in setting up a branch campus in the mainland, but as far as I know, the system of running a university in the mainland is different from that of Xingang, and now there are many restrictions on the management of the school in cooperation in running a school.

According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 70 institutions of higher learning in the mainland and more than 90 institutions of higher learning held by overseas institutions, half of which are more than 40 institutions of higher education and degree education, but most of the majors are management, especially MBA education. ”

Bao Feiyang nodded, and it could be seen that Li Weizhong and Xingang University of Science and Technology did have ideas about running a school in the mainland, so they also carefully understood the relevant situation. As early as the end of the 80s, a number of cooperatively-run schools appeared in China, but by the time of '92 and '93, because of the emergence of quite a lot of problems, the state suspended Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, and after conducting a large number of investigations and studies on relevant issues and conducting multifaceted investigations on the management of relevant foreign schools, it drafted and issued the "Circular on the Issue of Overseas Institutions and Individuals Coming to China to Cooperate in Running Schools" The circular clearly pointed out that various forms of educational exchanges and international cooperation with foreign countries are an important part of China's reform and opening up policy, and it is necessary to selectively introduce and make use of foreign management experience, educational content, and funds. It is conducive to the development of China's educational undertakings, and to carry out Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, we should adhere to the principle of "being active and prudent, giving priority to ourselves, strengthening management, and running schools according to law," abide by China's laws, and implement China's educational policy. It has been approved by the competent education department and is subject to its supervision and management......

On this basis, after more than a year of practice, discussions, and repeated revisions, the "Interim Regulations on Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools" was officially promulgated and implemented in 95 years, and on the significance and necessity of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools, the principles to be followed, the scope, subjects, examination and approval authority and examination and approval procedures of cooperative education, the leadership system of the school-running institutions, the issuance of certificates and foreign diplomas, Clear regulations have been made on issues such as the awarding of academic degrees, indicating that Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools has embarked on the track of running and managing schools according to law.

After the promulgation of the "Interim Provisions on Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools," Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools has developed rapidly and gained momentum, with more than 300 Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools of all kinds in the country, and the more than 90 of them mentioned by Li Weizhong are only cooperative school-running projects with institutions of higher learning as the main body, of which about half are academic and degree education, and about half are non-academic education and various types of training. Among them, MBA education is more successful, in contrast, the training market for various types of non-academic education is more active, specializing in international finance, international accounting, computer, marketing, secretarial, fashion design and marketing, business foreign languages, etc., and the training of various international professional certifications is very active.

As an important form of foreign exchange and cooperation in Chinese education, and also a supplement to domestic education, Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools not only introduces necessary funds for China's educational institutions, but also alleviates the contradiction of insufficient overall supply capacity of China's education to a certain extent through Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools. The teaching materials and teaching methods have promoted the renewal of the concept of running a school and the improvement of talent training and the level of teachers, and at the same time strengthened some of China's weak disciplines, and some majors offered by Sino-foreign cooperatively-run schools have also filled the gaps in China's disciplines. In addition, international exchanges and cooperation in the field of education have been effectively promoted through Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools.

However, at present, there are still many restrictions on Sino-foreign cooperation, and the majors of cooperative education are mainly concentrated in management, business finance, computer science, foreign languages, and other majors with a relatively high degree of application and marketization. In Bao Feiyang's view, in the past few decades, domestic colleges and universities have indeed derailed too much from the international in terms of management methods and teaching methods, and these cooperative education projects have indeed played a certain role in promoting the reform and change of domestic universities, but these market-oriented majors and applied majors have not played a big role in enhancing the academic research strength of domestic universities. These Sino-foreign cooperative education projects have not changed the management model of Chinese universities, and Bao Feiyang hopes to make some efforts and attempts in this regard.

Bao Feiyang said: " On the one hand, because of the implementation of economic reform in China in recent years, we used to implement a planned economy, and there were more missed classes on the things of the market economy, and the economic reform and the rapid development of the economy, we urgently need a large number of economic management talents, and on the other hand, this relatively high-end economic management major, the students are all bosses and managers, and they can also afford relatively high tuition fees, and most of the cooperative education projects are also for economic gains, and the cooperative education projects that really focus on general higher education and academic development have not yet appeared。 ”

"However, I think that business education and applied majors are only part of higher education, and there are many more things that need to be done in higher education in addition to business administration and computer science. What is lacking in domestic universities is not only that business administration education is out of touch with the world, but that in various professional fields, we need to introduce international thinking, introduce international management methods, and carry out international academic exchanges, especially in basic disciplines, we need international thinking. ”

Li Weizhong himself is engaged in high-energy physics research, and he nodded very approvingly with Bao Feiyang's statement: "Mr. Bao has a long-term view, in fact, this is not only a problem in the mainland, but also a problem in the universities in Xingang. Of course, as a comprehensive university, it must have a solid disciplinary foundation in order to obtain good educational and academic results in applied majors. ”

"The most important reason why Xingang University of Science and Technology has been able to succeed and develop into a first-class university in Asia in just a few years is the international education idea of Xingang University of Science and Technology. Most of the management and faculty members of Newport University of Science and Technology have international study or research experience, and they can bring back the most advanced international knowledge and teaching concepts, and the university's students also have more opportunities for international exchange and learning, which is very important for cultivating students with international vision and international academic standards. ”

Li Weizhong said: "Of course, the situation of each major is different, and a major like business administration must not only have an international vision, but also have a combination of localization. Some of the best MBA schools in the mainland are doing the same......"

"As for the basic disciplines, they are indeed not so strong in terms of commerciality and application, but the reason why the basic disciplines are basic disciplines is that the improvement of the basic disciplines will consolidate the foundation for the improvement of other disciplines. Just like some universities with strong mathematics departments, their software and computer science majors will also be strong, so the basic disciplines will be called basic ......"

"Relatively speaking, the construction of application-oriented disciplines is easier, the corresponding talents are easier to find, the employment of students is easier, the tuition fees are easy to collect, the difficulty of basic disciplines is a little greater, and the basic disciplines want to achieve results, research ability is very important, and the investment in this area is not small......