Higher education refers to professional education and vocational education based on the completion of secondary education, and it is the main social activity to train senior professionals and professionals.

Higher education is one of the important interrelated components in the education system. It usually includes all kinds of educational institutions whose main tasks and activities are high-level learning and training, teaching, research and social services.

The second half of the 20th century is an unusual stage of expansion and qualitative change in the development history of higher education. The rapid growth of society's demand for senior professionals and the urgent need of individuals for higher education opportunities make higher education develop at an unprecedented speed, from elite education to mass education.

Universal education:

On February 26th, 20 19, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the development of education in 20 18. Fan Hailin, deputy director of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education, said that China has built the largest higher education system in the world. In 20 18, the gross enrollment rate of higher education in China reached 48. 1%, and it is about to enter the popularization stage of higher education from the popularization stage.

On May 20, 2020, the official website of the Ministry of Education published the 20 19 National Statistical Bulletin on Education Development, which showed that there were 40.02 million students in various types of higher education in China, and the gross enrollment rate of higher education was 5 1.6%.

530 1 for all kinds of schools in China, an increase of 1, 1, 300 over the previous year; There were 282 million students in various levels of academic education, an increase of 6,606,200 over the previous year; Full-time teachers 17320300, an increase of 59 1800 over the previous year.