Abstract:

As a defining feature of Chinese-style modernization and a core requirement of socialism with Chinese characteristics, common prosperity has reshaped the pattern of regional coordinated development in higher education. It has promoted the clustered development of higher education, shifting regional coordination from a province-based model to a cluster-based one, and expanding practical implementation from a single educational track to an integrated framework of education, science and technology, and talent development. This transformation has given rise to a new substantive connotation and structural configuration of regional coordinated development in higher education. In response to the normative configuration of regional coordinated development in higher education under the common prosperity agenda, it is necessary to construct an evaluative framework that integrates quantitative and qualitative approaches, encompassing coordination between cluster-based and non-cluster-based regions, among different higher education clusters, and within regions inside individual clusters. And further identify criteria for regional coordinated development in higher education, including convergence between actual and normative resource structures across clusters, resource allocation aligned with and moderately ahead of socioeconomic development, and stronger diffusion than backflow effects within the higher education system.

Key words: Chinese-style modernization, regional coordinated development of higher education, higher education resources, higher education clusters, common prosperity