University is a cultural institution with unique functions, an institution of higher learning that inherits, studies, integrates and innovates advanced academic knowledge, and is interrelated with social, economic and political institutions. It is not only the product of the development of human culture to a certain stage, but also on the basis of long-term school-running practice, through historical accumulation, its own efforts and the influence of the external environment, it has gradually formed a unique university cultural university, which has a history of thousands of years since its emergence, and can be traced back to its appearance, mainly from Germany, Britain and other countries.

Modern universities in China originated in the west, and western modern universities gradually evolved from European medieval universities, British universities and German universities to American universities. No matter which era, universities are creative inheritance rather than denial of previous universities.