Lack of education funds has always been an obstacle to the high-level development of higher education in the central and western regions. As far as Henan's higher education is concerned, according to the statistical data of the 2006-20 15 national statistical bulletin on the implementation of education funds, although the average public expenditure of colleges and universities in Henan Province has increased by 2.8 times, its ranking in the country has dropped from 13 to the fifth from the bottom, which is not only far lower than that of developed areas such as Beijing and Shanghai, but also lower than that of Tibet, Ningxia and Xinjiang. The construction of "double first-class" provides a new historical opportunity for the development of Henan higher education. The government and universities should effectively optimize the allocation of higher education resources, promote the transformation of Henan from a big province of higher education to a strong province of higher education, and enhance the position of Henan higher education in the national higher education system. In the future, the direction of higher education reform and development in Henan Province should be to concentrate energy and financial resources, break through some advantageous universities and characteristic disciplines in the province, and cultivate national first-class universities and first-class disciplines. In the process of "double first-class" construction, preferential policies will be given to national key disciplines, national key laboratories, doctoral degree authorization points and high-level innovation teams that are in urgent need of innovation-driven development. Based on Henan's population base and economic aggregate, the government should increase the per capita ownership of high-level universities, give key support to 16 universities with academic master's and doctoral degrees in Henan Province, and improve the level of running schools.

The second is to attract domestic first-class universities to set up branches in the central and western regions.

In addition to focusing on the construction of superior universities and disciplines in this province, in order to quickly reverse the overall backwardness of high-quality higher education in the central and western regions, the government can also attract domestic first-class universities to set up branches in the central and western regions by formulating relevant preferential policies, so as to promote the overall level of higher education in the central and western regions. In recent years, the diffusion of resources of famous schools has become the general trend, and cities such as Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Ningbo and Qingdao have successful cases for reference. As far as Henan province is concerned, although its economic strength is not as good as that of Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Ningbo and Qingdao, it has its own advantages in terms of students and land, especially in central cities such as Zhengzhou, which are fully capable of introducing high-quality higher education resources from other provinces. Recently, Hefei, which is also a central city in the central region, successfully introduced Beihang Branch, and China University of Science and Technology will build a new campus of 3,000 mu in Hefei. Its experience is worth learning from the central and western regions and should also attract the attention of the central and western governments.

The third is to introduce foreign high-quality higher education resources and promote Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools.

It is a shortcut to improve the development level of higher education to introduce foreign high-quality higher education resources and establish high-level universities with Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools. In this respect, unnc, nyu shanghai, Duke University in Kunshan and Xi Jiao Tong University are all good examples. 20 17 In August, Zhengzhou Municipal Government issued the Outline of the Development Plan of Zhengzhou National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone (20 16-2025). It is planned to build UCLA University of China Academy of Sciences by Henan, China Academy of Sciences and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as one of the "double first-class" construction projects in Zhengzhou. In order to attract world-class universities and high-level talents to settle in the central and western regions more effectively, the central and western regions should formulate the internationalization development plan of higher education, introduce policies and measures on introducing high-quality higher education resources, and standardize the introduction direction, cooperation mode and incentive measures. Based on the development advantages and industrial layout of colleges and universities, around the major needs and strategic emerging industries in the province, we will introduce high-quality resources such as first-class universities and first-class talents in the fields of energy, resources, environment, agriculture and manufacturing that are in urgent need or shortage in the central and western provinces to promote the leap-forward development of higher education.

The fourth is to optimize the regional structure of higher education and lay out comprehensive universities in prefecture-level central cities.

In 1970s and 1980s, in order to meet the needs of social and economic development and improve the overall level of regional higher education, a number of universities founded by central cities emerged nationwide, which became new forces in the ranks of higher education. The rise of "running schools in central cities" has broken through the original central and provincial school-running systems and formed a new model of running schools in central, provincial and central cities. As far as Henan province is concerned, colleges and universities are mainly concentrated in Zhengzhou and its surrounding cities, and their distribution is extremely uneven. Starting with optimizing the higher education system, we will expand the overall planning ability of provincial governments for higher education, so that they can actively establish prefecture-level central city universities according to the development level and regional layout of the region and create a high-quality regional higher education development system under the new situation.