2011On April 24th, General Secretary Hu delivered an important speech at the celebration meeting of Tsinghua University's founding100th anniversary, proposing that cultural inheritance and innovation should be regarded as a new function of higher education, which is juxtaposed with the three functions of higher education, which have been recognized for a long time, such as personnel training, scientific research and serving the society. So far, it can be said that the fourth function of universities-cultural inheritance and innovation, which many scholars are emphasizing, has been recognized.