Study Of Core Competitiveness Of Adult Education In Yangtze Delta Universities

Adult education in local universities is an important and integral part of the national higher adult education system. It has its own characteristics, advantages, social functions and historical missions. In the new century, Yangtze Delta is proving itself more and more clearly the lead of national economy with its remarkable economic comprehensive power and vigor in competition. Facing with new opportunities and challenges, core competitiveness of adult higher education with the local universities in the Yangtze Delta must be strengthened through local coordination and combination to serve better the economy in Yangtze Delta region. Besides, adult higher education in the Delta region should play its own advantages in resources to the full by means of system innovation, optimization and combination. In this way, its competitive force and potentialities of sustainable development can be converted into the practical power in directly driving the economic growth and social advancement of the Delta region.This paper bases itself on the analytical framework of core competitiveness theory with the empirical study and reflection as the clue, mainly making use of the following research methods: literature study method, questionnaire and survey study method, and interview method. It delves into the connotations and characteristics of adult higher education core competitiveness in local universities. In the way of "SWOT"analysis,It analyzes the competition situation of local universities adult higher education in the Yangtze Delta region. The paper also reviews the new opportunities and challenges faced by the local adult higher education of local universities in the Delta region and objectively analyzes its real situations, problems and difficulties. In view of the characteristics and the historical missions of the new century in the adult higher education of the local universities in the Delta region, this paper proposes the solutions and the mechanism of realizing sustainable development from eight aspects, namely, management innovation, resources integration, adult education operation, quality priority, brand establishment, optimized allocation of teacher resource, strategic planning, multi-faceted combination aiming at nurturing and advancing the core competitiveness of the local universities adult education in the Yangtze Delta region to lay some founding work for the study of the local universities adult education and provide some theoretical guide for the competition and development of the local universities.