The presidents of public universities are appointed by different levels of government agencies according to the administrative level of the university. The administrative level of public universities in China is generally divided into three levels: deputy department level, main department level and deputy department level. Vice-ministerial colleges are generally junior colleges, main ministerial colleges are undergraduate courses, and vice-ministerial colleges are relatively strong undergraduate courses.

Among them, university presidents at the deputy department level and the main department level are generally appointed by the provincial government or the Ministry of Education according to the different departments in charge of the university. In addition to CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and main-level universities, the appointment of vice-ministerial university presidents is decided by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

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Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University and Fudan University. They are all deputy ministerial level, and the corresponding administrative level of the presidents of these universities is also deputy ministerial level, which is equivalent to the level of deputy governor of each province.

According to statistics, among the 42 "double-first-class" universities in China, except China Ocean University, Northeastern University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Minzu University of China, South China University of Technology, Hunan University, East China Normal University, Zhengzhou University, Yunnan University and Xinjiang University, the other 32 "double-first-class" universities are all established at the deputy ministerial level. (National University of Defense Technology is the rank, and the corresponding local administrative level is the deputy ministerial level)

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