This paper embodies the spiritual essence of "four regressions" in the practice of continuing education with higher academic qualifications, puts forward the concrete connotation of returning to common sense, duty, initial intention and dream in continuing education with higher academic qualifications, and expounds the concrete implementation and promotion of "four regressions" based on practice in combination with the fundamental problems of "who to train, how to train and for whom" in continuing education with higher academic qualifications.

It is beneficial for colleges and universities to rethink and clarify the original intention, goal and orientation of continuing education with higher academic qualifications, ensure the socialist school-running direction of continuing education with higher academic qualifications, and effectively improve their political status without getting lost in "profit-seeking".