Cultural individuality and Strive for Creating World First-class Universities

As the universities in the 21st century are to assume a new important mission,it is urgently required to make innovations of Chinese universities and to form a group of world first-class universities through competition on the basis of common heightening of the school-running level and teaching quality of numerous universities.However,it is just in the background of new times,there is a phenomenon of the decline of the university spirit in China. This is an extremely sharp contradiction.It is an important theme confronted with at present to profoundly cognize essential characteristics and school-running laws of modern universities,realize a new cultural awakening,adhere to cultural individualities of modern universities,search for an effective way for China to create world first-class universities and actively explore an innovative path for universities with Chinese characteristics under the new situation.