Institutions of higher learning (institutions of higher learning) are collectively referred to as universities, junior colleges, higher vocational and technical colleges and junior colleges, and universities for short.

From the level of education and training, including junior college, undergraduate, master and doctor. Among them, universities generally refer to comprehensive colleges, specialized colleges include medical universities, opera colleges, music and fine arts colleges, and higher vocational colleges include vocational and technical colleges and junior colleges.

"20 1 1 plan" colleges and universities

The "20 1 1" plan, that is, the plan to improve the innovation ability of colleges and universities, is the third national strategic project implemented by the people of China and the State Council in the higher education system.

The core task of the plan is to improve the innovative ability of talents, disciplines and scientific research. The plan aims to break through the internal and external institutional barriers of universities by building four types of collaborative innovation models oriented to the frontier of science, cultural inheritance and innovation, and industry and regional development, deepening the institutional reform of universities and transforming the innovation model of universities.