1. Municipal colleges and universities refer to middle and high schools funded by the municipal government and managed by the education departments at the same level, generally referring to junior high schools.

2. Provincial institutions of higher learning refer to ordinary institutions of higher learning that are subordinate to all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, and most of them rely on local financial support and are funded by local administrative departments.

Whether a university belongs to the municipal government or the provincial government is not determined by the education bureau, but by the department that allocates funds and funds for the establishment of the university: the municipal government allocates funds for the establishment, and the provincial finance is allocated by local administrative departments such as the province.

Municipal universities and provincial universities are generally managed by local governments, and investment and construction are mainly funded by local governments and are not directly managed by the Ministry of Education.

Extended data:

As of February 27th, 20 19, there are more than 2,500 provincial universities in China, including universities, junior colleges, junior colleges, higher vocational and technical colleges, branch schools, independent colleges, short-term vocational universities, adult colleges, management cadre colleges, education colleges and other institutions.

Among them, there are more than 900 public schools/KLOC-0 and more than 500 private schools. In addition, it also includes some 2 1 1 colleges and 985 colleges and universities, which are distributed all over the country.

In addition to municipal and provincial universities, there are also subordinate universities.

Universities directly under the Ministry, a group of universities directly managed by various departments and their directly affiliated institutions in the State Council, People's Republic of China (PRC), have basically covered the selected national education strategies "21Project", "985 Project", "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform", "20 165438 Plan" and "0 Plan".

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