Abstract:

The implementation of regional development strategies in China has established a national spatial governance framework that combines substantive governance of adminstrative region with virtual governance of function region, which has promoted the restructuring of higher education governance at different scales. In the exploration of cross-administrative region practice, represented by higher education counterpart support, running campuses in other cities, and university town construction, the development of higher education has continuously broken through the administrative division boundaries, constructed a new order in the dimension of spatial governance, and formed a pattern of higher education governance in which administrative regions and functional regions coexist. The governance subjects and their relationships have also changed accordingly. In the future, in order to better integrate the high-quality development of higher education into the national and regional development strategies and improve the ability and level of higher education to serve the national and regional economic and social development, it is necessary to further break through the boundaries of fields and spaces and form cross-administrative governance in higher education. Optimizing the relationship between governance subjects is the foundation for building a cross-administrative region governance system for higher education. The government should use policy opportunities provided by national regional development to explore an optimal path of intergovernmental relationships combining vertical decentralization and horizontal cooperation based on project systems, providing external comprehensive environmental security assurance for cross-administrative region practice of universities. Enterprises should achieve deep integration of industry, university and research through collaborating with universities to establish cross-regional innovation consortia.

Key words: high-quality development, regional development strategy, cross-administrative region governance in higher education, administrative region, functional area