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Text|Triumph. After the relocation of central enterprises, the subordinate colleges and universities also began to move.
A new round of "relocation from Beijing" is coming.
The 2024 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Education Coordinated Development Forum held a few days ago revealed that 15 universities affiliated to the Ministry in Beijing will be relieved to Xiong'an New Area, of which the Xiong'an Campus of Beijing Jiaotong University, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing Forestry University, and China University of Geosciences (Beijing) 4 universities have officially started construction at the end of last year.
Not long ago, the national level clearly required that "universities, hospitals and central enterprise headquarters affiliated to ministries and commissions in Beijing should be evacuated to Xiong'an in phases and batches", and now the relocation of colleges and universities is fully kicking off.
The subordinate universities are the first echelon of China's universities.
At present, there are more than 3,000 colleges and universities in the country, 1,270 undergraduate colleges, but only more than 110 subordinate universities, and Beijing alone accounts for the top 1 3, most of these universities are 211 universities and double first-class universities.
If these universities can be relocated, it will be a good thing for Beijing's non-capital functions and for the balanced development of regional education.
Good universities have always been the object of contention.
In recent years, as innovation-driven has become the source of power for high-quality development, and the construction of a modern industrial system has entered the top-level design led by scientific and technological innovation, the importance of science and education has increased unabated.
In this context, a number of cities have risen up to "desperately build universities" and "frantically grab universities". Introduce Hong Kong and Macao universities to cooperate in running schools, attract 985 colleges and universities to run schools in other places, strive for famous universities to establish branch campuses or research institutes, and compete for the ...... of universities with the prefix "country".And so on.
However, with the official order, after that, there are only a few possibilities left for Hong Kong and Macao to cooperate in running schools, establishing branch campuses of famous schools in the province, and building their own universities.
The "relocation of Beijing University" has brought new possibilities for this round of competition for colleges and universities.
This reminds people of the last round of "Beijing University Relocation" more than 50 years ago.
According to Kaifeng's book, from 1969 to 1970, based on the special situation at that time, 13 universities in Beijing, including the University of Science and Technology of China, China University of Petroleum, China University of Geosciences, and China University of Mining and Technology, moved to the local area, and Anhui, Shaanxi, Hebei, Hubei, Henan and other places became the main undertakers.
After the reform and opening up, some of these colleges and universities returned to their original sites in Beijing, some ran schools in two places, and some stayed in the local area, and USTC is the representative.
The relocation of Beijing University, together with the previous "three-line construction", laid the foundation for higher education in many provinces with underdeveloped universities, and created more possibilities for later take-off.
The difference is that the last round of relocation from Beijing to Beijing was scattered to many provinces and cities, while this round of relocation of subordinate colleges and universities is based on the overall situation of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration, and the main foothold is in Xiong'an New Area.
Although Xiong'an New Area is not completely equivalent to a part of Hebei, the settlement of many subordinate universities is bound to help Hebei break the history of not having a "double first-class university" and save a game for the difficulties of universities in the "four provinces".
Which central SOE headquarters and universities in Beijing will be relocated?
In recent years, with the full promotion of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration strategy, the relief of non-capital functions has become a top priority in Beijing and even the whole country, and the relocation of the headquarters of central enterprises and subordinate universities is a key part of it.
Since the establishment of Xiong'an New Area, the relocation of the headquarters of central enterprises has begun.
At present, many central enterprise headquarters, including China Star Network, China Sinochem, China Three Gorges, China Electronics, China Shipbuilding, and China Rare Earth, have moved out of Beijing, and Xiong'an New Area, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Wuhan have become the main undertakers.
Xiong'an New Area is the biggest beneficiary. According to incomplete statistics, at present, there are 4 central enterprise headquarters in Xiong'an New Area, 34 second-class subsidiaries of central enterprises, and more than 200 subsidiaries and branches of various types, and the number of central enterprise headquarters is second only to Beijing and Shanghai.
After the relocation of the headquarters of the central enterprises, it is the turn of the universities affiliated to the Ministry in Beijing, and there is no room for escape.
Of course, the relocation of Beijing University is not the first time, as early as the beginning of the establishment of Xiong'an New Area, there were rumors, but which colleges and universities will be relocated, all relocated or run schools in other places has been undecided.
The latest news is that 15 subordinate universities will be released to Xiong'an New Area in the future, but the full list has not yet been disclosed.
However, according to public reports, at least the first batch of relocated universities such as Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, and China University of Geosciences (Beijing) have been identified, as well as the Beijing Institute of Technology, which was approved to build a Xiong'an campus at the end of last year.
According to the plans of various universities and related reports, the "14th Five-Year Plan" development plan of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications has proposed the construction of Xiong'an New Area, while Beijing Language and Culture University has stated that it will "promote the coordinated layout and coordinated development of Beijing Campus and Xiong'an Campus".
This means that Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, China Geosciences University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing Post and Telecommunications, Beijing Language and other subordinate universities are among the relief.
There are many more subordinate colleges and universities on the way.
Is the relocation of Beijing University an entire relocation, or is it just a new campus?
In the last round of "relocation from Beijing University" more than 50 years ago, most of them were relocated as a whole, and even if they built new campuses, they eventually stayed in the local area and became independent new universities, adding a real new university to the local area.
The University of Science and Technology of China is a typical representative. USTC was founded in Beijing, a university directly under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and finally settled in Anhui and stayed in Hefei in the wave of relocation from Beijing in the sixties and seventies of the last century.
Today, Hefei can win the most valuable comprehensive national science center, and has a place in emerging fields such as chips, new energy, and new displays, which is not without the contribution of the University of Science and Technology of China.
And this time, there are still doubts about whether the relocation of Beijing School will be completely relocated or simply run a school in another place.
According to the original statement, all of the above-mentioned universities need to be relocated by 2035, which seems to imply the idea of an overall out-migration.
However, in the face of this interpretation, the above-mentioned universities responded that after the completion of the new campus in Xiong'an, it will not be relocated as a whole, but that the Beijing campus and the Xiong'an campus will be "one school, two districts, and coordinated development".
In other words, the relocation of Beijing School seems to be just a new Xiong'an New Area, while the Beijing campus still exists, and the school headquarters will most likely not move.
If everything remains the status quo, this is no different from the practices of Sun Yat-sen University Shenzhen Campus, Nanjing University Suzhou Campus, Southeast University Wuxi Campus, etc., all of which belong to the category of famous schools to establish branch campuses.
However, the relocation of the headquarters of central enterprises also faced many obstacles at the beginning, but in the end they were all fully promoted, and it was not difficult to build a new Xiong'an headquarters or Wuhan headquarters, but a comprehensive relocation, and finally realized the overall relocation of the headquarters of central enterprises.
This is where the courage of reform lies, and it is also the most anticipated aspect of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration.
Therefore, whether it is the relocation of the headquarters of central enterprises or subordinate universities, it is not a one-time action, but has just kicked off, and everything is still in progress.
Original title: "Official Announcement! A new round of "relocation outside Beijing" suddenly kicked off