1, reflecting national strength

The rise and fall of a country is closely related to the rise and fall of a university. There are two aspects to a country's strength, one is "hard power" and the other is "soft power". The core and focus of "soft power" is the rise and fall of universities.

At present, it is impossible to become a world power without many high-level universities, and it is impossible to become a world power without a number of world-class universities. History has repeatedly proved another truth. World-class universities are produced through competition.

2. Cultivate talents

The school-running mode of medieval universities was professional from the beginning, which trained professionals such as officials, judges, priests and doctors needed by society. Therefore, training professionals is the earliest and most basic social function of universities.

3. Develop science. Is an important social function of colleges and universities.

The industrial revolution has laid a technical foundation for the development of science, and requires theories and methods to solve increasingly complex production technical problems. Scientific research has begun to be valued by the society, and the society needs a group of talents specializing in scientific research.

In the past, the way of teaching and training production technology in time relying on personal experience can no longer meet the needs of society. In this way, colleges and universities will certainly become the most ideal places to train scientific research talents.

4. Serving the society

Like the development of science, the function of directly serving the society of colleges and universities is not only the objective need of society, but also the logic of its own development.

5. Cultural inheritance and innovation

The foundation of culture is morality. Morality is the life of education, and education without morality is evil. The moral level of a nation is not observed by the number and proportion of offenders, but reflected by education.

6. Production and reproduction of productive forces

Higher education should absorb other disciplines' understanding of the social functions of colleges and universities from these different angles, and explore the regularity of higher education on a broader basis.

7. Diversified giant universities

Cole, a contemporary American higher education thinker, put forward the concept of "diversified mega-university", arguing that the function of a university is a complex network, including production function, consumption function and citizen function.