Chinese Higher Education Autonomy

Higher education is the greatest pioneering work of human society, it is also the final hope of human society. It is impossible to guarantee any countries to have a real and continuous development depending upon its own force without higher education handing down excellent culture, training talented personnel. It is the knowledge base, personnel base, information base and innovation base of human society. It is the final means of human civilization and development. It follows human society from beginning to end, it has the organizational characteristics of self-organization and technical neutrality, and ecological characteristics of ecological symbiosis and self-preservation, it is a self-organization system that does not change according to human minds. Personnel function, culture function, innovation function, criticism function are the most central and the most essential proprioceptive functions of higher education. Only relying on the play of proprioceptive functions of higher education, can other attached functions be given play to. Academic freedom is the indispensable existing soul of higher education, only when there is freedom, can academy develop healthily, Only when there is academy, the whole implication the higher education gives play its normal function to society and contributes to society appears. Self-management is its indispensable developing route. Only there is self-management, can higher education obtain the motive power of self development; Only when the motive power of development obtained, can higher education bear the whole responsibility to society and avoid foolishness and indifference. The higher education system with modern meaning originated from medieval times in Europe, which is a unified and diversified organization unable to be found in human history so far. Because only living things can both keep their own individuality adequately, and obey and suit the whole changes of the situation and environments.In the organization system of society, higher education and government are different activity mainstays subordinate to the social market with theirown different activity content and functions. However, because of the different status, the relationship to manage or to be managed exists objectively. In theory, the relationship of two should be that the government carries out macro management, normalizes the social order, provides good precondition for the development of higher education. The higher institutions manage schooling by themselves according to law, and make contributions to society by promoting scientific development and training personnel. In practice, the relationship of two should be that the government has the right to conduct higher education, the higher institutions have the right to run it .This kind of right relationship between two is obtained by law authorization, is also caused by their different functions. If two is confused, it will lead to the depending development of higher education because of the different positions of two, the functions of higher education will be submerged, the higher institutions become one of the departments attached to government. Therefore, the rights of conducting and running schools can not be confused, even mixed. The right of running schools is actually the right for private use, the right to develop and also the right to survive.Chinese higher education has made a great progress after more than half a century's development, has given very important scope to the civilization progress and economic development of the country. However, in view of the legacy of system it has inherited, being eager to stabilize the political order, and the urgent need to resume and develop the economic construction, and the plan system carried out for a long time so that the higher education and national political and economical system formed a coupling body of same quality, resulting in noumenon deficiency, subject diasterna and position transferred passively. Especially facing market economy system and knowledge society and the challeng...