It does not match the overall development level of higher education. How bad the education in Hunan is because it does not match the overall level of higher education development. Hunan Province, referred to as "Xiang" for short, is the provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC) (China), bordering Jiangxi in the east, Chongqing and Guizhou in the west, Guangdong and Guangxi in the south and Hubei in the north. Hunan is located in the transition zone from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to Jiangnan hills and Nanling Mountains to Jianghan Plain. It is a horseshoe-shaped landform surrounded by mountains on three sides and open to the north. It is composed of plains, basins, hills, mountains and lakes, spanning the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, and belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate.