The modern university system with China characteristics is the high unity of "China characteristics" and "modern university system", an important part of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's institutional system, and an active exploration and practice to promote the modernization of China's university governance system and governance capacity; It is an idea and system established to meet the needs of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's construction and development on the premise of following the laws of higher education and accurately grasping the essence and connotation of modern university system. The main feature is the mutual coordination and benign interaction between universities and external institutional environment factors such as politics, economy, society and culture, and the essential feature is the leadership of the party over universities, which is reflected in the basic, decisive and guiding position of the "principal responsibility system under the leadership of party committees" in China's university management system. The Party's leadership over colleges and universities is an inevitable reflection of China's political system in the university system and an essential difference between China's modern university system and other university systems. Constantly highlight the adaptability and coordination of the modern university system with China characteristics.

American higher education has formed a multi-channel financing system. On the whole, various funds allocated by governments at all levels, tuition fees borne by students and school service income are the three major sources of funds for colleges and universities. Although the proportion of these three total incomes in the total funds has declined slightly in recent years, they still dominate.

American public education is in a monopoly position and lacks competition mechanism, which leads to inefficient use of funds. The local government introduced the competition mechanism, reformed the drawbacks of the system, and gave parents and students the full right to choose schools. In order to attract more students, the school has taken various measures to improve the efficiency of the use of education funds, thus improving the overall quality of education.

I don't know when we began to worship the university, expecting it to bring us a bright future. However, after the transformation from the planned system to the market system, our fate has returned to our own hands. However, the education system of universities still continues the style of planned system, which makes us very confused. After being sought after for a period of time, vocational and technical education suddenly received an unprecedented cold reception. It is reported that from the late 1960s to 2005, due to the expansion of colleges and universities, the proportion of vocational and technical education shrank from 58% to 38%, and many vocational schools shrank because they could not recruit students. Up to now, the iron rice bowls of both types of schools have been smashed. Therefore, it is reasonable to believe that under the influence of market mechanism, most people will still receive vocational education instead of university education in the future. After all, there are great differences between university education and vocational education in educational objectives, educational standards and the knowledge of professors. Some people say that education should be popularized, which is true, but this trend of popularization is not floating to universities, but to vocational schools. The idea of university education should still be the idea of "elite education".