This is a misunderstanding. A junior college can only be promoted to an undergraduate course, and an undergraduate course will generally not be downgraded to a junior college. The reason why the media and the internet spread the hot speculation that "600 undergraduate universities have become junior colleges" stems from their misunderstanding of the spirit of the speech by officials of the Ministry of Education on higher education reform. It is not that only junior colleges can cultivate applied talents, but undergraduate colleges can also cultivate talents who pay equal attention to theory and application! Generally speaking, the state will pay more attention to vocational education, focusing on selecting a number of undergraduate colleges to train applied talents, rather than turning undergraduate courses into professional courses.

The education department said in its official statement: According to their understanding, it is the need of the state to adjust and optimize the structure of higher education, the need of economic and social development, and the need of the transformation and development of colleges and universities themselves.

The complete higher vocational education has both junior college level and undergraduate level, and will be extended to graduate level in the future. The existing undergraduate colleges will not be transformed into junior colleges.

The transformation and development of local colleges and universities, the education administrative department is deeply studying, and all localities are actively exploring. At present, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Ningbo Dahongying College and Ningbo Institute of Technology have applied to join the unofficial China-Universities of Applied Sciences Alliance and actively participated in relevant reform pilot exploration.