Abstract:

The construction of Excellent University is the university development requirements put forward by the German government in order to build world-class universities, which has experienced preliminary conception, practical exploration and advanced adjustment three periods. In the preliminary conception period, German universities followed the main line of development thinking focusing on scientific research, and began to conceive the conception of Excellent University. During the period of practical exploration, the concept and framework of Excellent University began to gestated and gradually developed. In the period of advanced adjustment, German Excellent University takes sustainable development as the core theme, comprehensiveness as the basic concept, innovation as the important mission and international competitiveness as the fundamental objective to implement the strategy of excellence. After these three periods of exploration and efforts, the construction of the Excellent University in Germany has achieved good performance. China can learn from its relevant experience, attach importance to the cultivation of various types talents at all levels of higher education, follow the trend of integrated development and take the road of cooperative development, find its own position and take the road of differentiated development with Chinese characteristics with international vision, play the function of cultural heritage to cultivate China’s “core values of universities”, so that the Double First-Class construction will continue to move towards “excellence”.

Key words: German Excellent University, excellence plan, excellence strategy, Double First-Class