Abstract
In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China's higher education and campus construction have made historic achievements. This paper reviews the history of this process in the 40 years, while summarises the characteristics and requirements of current new campus by comparing multiple new campuses in china. The paper uses East China University of Science and Technology as an example, to analysis the problems of neglecting the regional characteristics and far-fetched embodiment of university culture. This paper puts forward the concept of using regional characteristics to strengthen university culture, and unfolds in natural features, evolution process and farming habits within two specific plots.
Highlights
Since the founding of new China, especially in the 40 years of reform and opening up, China’s higher education has undergone earth-shaking changes
Due to the price of land and the overall planning of the city, many new campuses are located on the edge of the city or in the satellite city
The construction of the new campus should be based on regional characteristics, which inherits the culture of the old campus and highlights the characteristics of the new campus
Summary
Since the founding of new China, especially in the 40 years of reform and opening up, China’s higher education has undergone earth-shaking changes. In 1998, the number of enrolled students in ordinary colleges and universities nationwide was 1.084 million. By 1999, it had reached 1.597 million, an increase of 47.3% over the previous year. Between 1999 and 2005, the rate of enlargement maintained at around 20% per year. The enlargement of the higher education has directly leaded to the expansion of the campus construction. According to the National Statistical Report on Education Development 1998 to 2017, the number of higher education instittution had increased from 1022 to 2631(Fig 1). The overall floorage of campus building had increased from 15400 ha to 95400 ha, which is 6 times of the original. As the old campuses are uslally near the downtown and become over crowed, a lot of universities search to build new campuses
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