| Since the establishment of the new China,China’s key university construction began to begin,key universities are a very important part of the development of higher education,with the advent of the knowledge-based economy,the research universities of knowledge production and the training of talents at a high level in promoting the political,economic and other aspects of the country’s development role is also more obvious,so that the country’s attention to the key construction of higher education continues to increase,China’s key universities construction has gradually taken the world-class universities as a strategic goal,began to align with the international team.China began to adopt the construction program,is "concentrated resources,key construction" inclined development strategy,the purpose is to enable some colleges and universities to improve the quality first,and then drive other colleges and universities together to "share the cake",which is an effective program of "poor rural education",in the last 70 years,although China’s higher education started late,but in fact reached a relatively fast pace of development,achieved strong results.From the establishment of Renmin University,through major construction projects,to "211" and "985" with world-class universities as the goal,and then the construction of "double first-class universities" promoted in a clear order,the construction of key universities in China has embarked on a new journey of building world-class universities with Chinese characteristics,so the logic behind the construction of China’s key universities is of great importance.to promote the construction of world-class universities at this stage.Starting from this problem,this study introduces the analysis of historical institutionalism,historical institutionalism aims to give a convincing explanation of policy change,as one of the new schools of institutionalism,which has also been demonstrated and developed for decades,its "macro-meso-micro" analysis structure takes center stage,so that readers can feel that policy change is influenced by different levels of factors,and in its path dependency and key node analysis makes the entire evolutionary process more dynamic.Similarly,it also has a strong explanation for the changes in the political construction of the major universities in China.By combining the historical line of China’s main university building policy and examining the factors influencing its change,we examine how these factors specifically affect the political change process of major universities,grasp the law in the process of policy change,and make proposals for improving policy according to the current state of development.The study first divides them into the embryonic stage of China’s major universities(1949-1976),the stage of scientific development of China’s major universities(1977-1990),the initial stage of building world-class universities(1991-2014),and the construction stage of "double first-class" universities(2015-present),analyzing the political characteristics of each phase.The third chapter of the paper takes historical institutionalism as a theoretical basis to analyze the change path of China’s main higher education construction policy,in which the path of change is divided into path adaptation and path dependence,and path adaptation includes two methods of change:fine-tuning and mutation,i.e.the gradual adaptation of institutional reforms in society and the adaptation that takes place in the three nodes of the Cultural Revolution,reform and opening-up and Chinese characteristics in the new era appear.Chapter 4 analyzes the drivers from a structural perspective,dividing them into three parts,including economic,political,social environment,education system,government,market,and university actors,and examines the role of these factors in the changes of China’s major universities.In summary,Chapter 5 should combine historical institutionalism with the current "double first-class" construction and make the following suggestions for improving the "double first-class" construction. |