The subordinate relationship between universities and competent departments means that local universities are subordinate to provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, and most of them rely on local financial support.

There are more than 2,500 colleges and universities funded by local administrative departments. As the main part of China's higher education system, they aim at serving regional economic and social development and strive to cultivate high-quality talents for the local area.

Expand the teaching materials and approve the establishment of schools that implement higher education in the form of correspondence, part-time and full-time in accordance with national standards and examination and approval procedures, with the unified entrance examination for adult colleges and universities and the recruitment of on-the-job employees of ordinary high schools or personnel with equivalent academic qualifications as the main training targets.

Including radio and TV universities, open universities, staff universities, amateur universities, staff medical colleges, management cadre colleges, education colleges, adult (continuing) education colleges in ordinary universities, etc.

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