Higher education in China: current state and the main directions of development until 2035

  • Lidija V. Pyrozhenko Huzhou University, 759 Erhuandong Road, Huzhou 313000, Zhejiang Province, China
  • Xingxin Wang Huzhou University, 759 Erhuandong Road, Huzhou 313000, Zhejiang Province, China

Abstract

The article analyses the features of the development of higher education in China, its current state and development strategies of Chinese universities until 2035. The implementation of state education reform projects in the late 20th – early 21st century brought a number of Chinese universities to a leading position in the world, turned China into a country with the largest higher education in the world. According to the strategy of global development of higher education, by 2035 China plans to form an extensive system of high-quality affordable higher education, achieve the combined power and influence of the country’s education in the international arena, increase the competitiveness of higher education in the context of the country’s transformation into a global educational power.

Author Biographies

Lidija V. Pyrozhenko, Huzhou University, 759 Erhuandong Road, Huzhou 313000, Zhejiang Province, China

doctor of science (pedagogy), full professor; international expert of the Multicultural Research Center

Xingxin Wang, Huzhou University, 759 Erhuandong Road, Huzhou 313000, Zhejiang Province, China

PhD (philology); lecturer at the department of Russian language, Institute of Foreign Languages

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Published
2022-05-26
Keywords: education system of China, modernisation of higher education China, universities of China, accessibility of education, elite universities
Section
Foreign Experience