In the historical process, under the specific planning and personal guidance of Zhang Zhidong himself, Hubei has successively established the School of Self-improvement (now the predecessor of Wuhan University), the School of Military Equipment and the Agricultural School (now Huazhong Agricultural University). Hubei Technical School, the predecessor of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, was also born under the planning and guidance of Zhang Zhidong in this historical period. Not only in Hubei province, Zhang Zhidong founded Sanjiang Normal School in Nanjing when he was governor of Liangjiang, which was the predecessor of Nanjing University and Southeast University.