■ Harvard University President Lu:

Teaching students to think independently is the most important thing.

He believes that an excellent student should be evaluated not only by his exam results, but also by his comprehensive quality. Harvard needs to know whether a student who has learned a lot of knowledge is also creative; Whether he has strong curiosity and motivation to explore new fields; Apart from students' majors, do students care about other fields and have a wide range of interests? Therefore, when enrolling students, Harvard attaches great importance to the letters of recommendation from students' teachers and people who are familiar with students. In addition, Harvard also needs to interview students in order to understand their situation more comprehensively and intuitively. When applying to Harvard, students must also provide a paper related to their major, so that the school can know where their research interest in this major lies.

Harvard also attaches great importance to the diversity of students, so it will also consider the diversity of students' backgrounds when enrolling students, such as whether they are from the United States, African countries or China. Harvard hopes that students can learn different cultures from their classmates. It is this geographical diversity that provides different experiences for Harvard's student training. Moreover, these students eat and live at school, and they have the opportunity to get in touch with each other. In fact, it is also a learning process. It is this measure that attracts students from more than 100 countries and regions to study at Harvard.

■ Oxford University President Lucas:

It is difficult to build a world-class university.

"It is actually very difficult to truly establish a world-class university. What we can do is to create conditions for this goal. " Professor Lucas, President of Oxford University, said frankly. He believes that how to build a world-class university in China must first have enough capital investment, and this investment is not one-off, but long-term; Second, there must be excellent teachers, which is the fundamental guarantee for high-level scientific research and high-quality teaching; Third, strictly select universities with good foundation for key construction; Fourth, we should strive to improve the quality of students' training, especially the ability of independent thinking. The biggest challenge facing the development of China University is how to invest wisely and selectively.

■ Peking University President Xu Zhihong:

The change of ideas and systems is the most urgent.

Professor Xu Zhihong, President of Peking University, believes that China University, especially the research university in the 2nd/Kloc-0th century, should at least shoulder the historical mission of cultivating talents, academic research, social service and internationalization of higher education, and become a powerful new force for rejuvenating the country through science and education and an important part of China's knowledge innovation system. Xu Zhihong believes that compared with world-class universities, there are still many gaps in discipline construction in Peking University. This gap is mainly manifested in: there are few disciplines, disciplines and academic achievements with world-class level, and the number of first-class scholars with world influence in the teaching staff is very small, and the mechanism for cultivating, attracting and gathering outstanding talents has not yet formed. "How to establish and develop new disciplines, transform traditional old disciplines and give full play to the enthusiasm and creativity of teachers and students has become an important topic for Peking University to create a first-class university."

In his view, funding is not the most important issue for China University. In fact, it is difficult to make achievements by investing money without goals. Even in developed countries and foreign countries, some advanced universities have high management levels and good organizational systems, so for them, capital has become the most important factor in building first-class universities. He pointed out that at present, there are many problems in universities in China, such as imperfect management system and unclear objectives. In this case, no matter how much money is invested, good results will not be obtained. Therefore, the funding problem should not be the primary problem facing China University at present. The most important link is to reform the management system as soon as possible, change the concept of running a school and have your own goals.

■ Tsinghua University President Wang Dazhong:

First of all, we must create a first-class discipline.

Professor Wang Dazhong, President of Tsinghua University, said that discipline construction is a strategic infrastructure for the development of universities. The setting and level of disciplines and majors in universities largely determine the characteristics and level of running a university. Strengthening discipline construction is a basic and fundamental link in the development of colleges and universities. "To build a world-class university, we must have first-class disciplines. Without first-class disciplines, it is impossible to cultivate first-class talents and produce first-class results. " Therefore, Tsinghua University has been striving to make some disciplines reach the world-class level during the period of 15. "First-class universities should cultivate first-class innovative talents."

■ President of Zhejiang University Pan Yunhe:

Dare to cultivate nondescript students.

The most interesting thing about President Pan is that universities should dare to train nondescript students. In fact, what he means is to give full play to students' initiative and cultivate their various qualities and innovative ability. He said: "We can't demand innovation on the one hand and restrict students' development with rules and regulations on the other. Don't let students swim in a swimming pool forever, let students learn Chinese economically, and let them study music and art at the same time. This way of thinking will be somewhat different, and there will always be some unexpected gains. "