Chinese Policies to Enhance Competitiveness of Higher Education : Their Structure and Implications to Japan

世纪之交以来，中国高等教育开始了进入国际学术研究和教育竞技场的大胆尝试。本研究试图：（1）通过对相关文件的分析以及对负责的政策制定者的访谈，勾勒出这些政府政策的结构;（2）评估中国在全球学生运动中所扮演的角色的变化;（3）分析各个机构如何接受和应对这些政策变化，以及它们的后果。我的结论是，这些政策使中国高等教育机构发生了巨大的变化，但这种快速变化也带来了重大问题。笔者还认为，日本高等教育面临着与中国转型相适应的重大挑战。

Since the turn of the centuries, Chinese higher education started its bold attempts to enter the arena of international competition in academic research and education. This study attempted to :(1) delineate the structure of these government policies through analyses of documents as well as interviews with responsible policy makers,(2) evaluate the changes in the role of China in the global student movement, and(3) analyze how individual institutions adopted and acted on these policy changes, and what their consequences are. I concluded that these policies rendered a tremendous transformation in Chinese higher education institutions, but there are significant problems created through this rapid change. I also argued that Japanese higher education is faced with a significant challenge to match up with the Chinese transformation.