高等学校担负着培养高级专门人才和发展科学技术文化的重大任务。到本世纪末,我国高等教育发展的战略目标是,建成科类齐全、层次比例合理的体系,总规模达到与我国经济实力相当的水平。近十年来,我国的高等教育得到了较快的发展,种类结构、层次比例逐渐得以调整,高等教育规模迅速扩大……,成绩是显著的。从现在到下世纪仅十多年的时间,要使我国高等教育适应经济和社会需要,达到上述战略目标,任务还 Colleges and universities are shouldering the major task of training senior professionals and developing science, technology and culture. By the end of this century, the strategic goal for the development of China’s higher education is to set up a system of complete categories and reasonable proportions of levels with a total scale reaching a level comparable to that of China’s economy. In the past ten years, the higher education in our country has been rapidly developed. Gradual changes have taken place in the types of structures and levels, and the scale of higher education has rapidly expanded. The achievements have been remarkable. From now to the next century, only a dozen years time to make our higher education adapt to economic and social needs, achieve the above strategic objectives, the mission also