University characteristics
Universities aim at exploring, pursuing, defending and disseminating truth and knowledge, and have the mission of guiding social values and standardizing social behaviors, which has irreplaceable influence and promotion on the improvement of human quality and the development and progress of social civilization.
Modern universities originated from European medieval universities in 12 and 13 centuries. The fundamental difference of medieval universities lies in the transformation of university functions. Medieval universities were closely connected with religious education, aiming at educating people's minds, but only imparting existing knowledge and refusing to study and discover new knowledge; Modern universities take scientific research as their main function.