摘要
There are over 1,000 regular higher education institutions (HEIs) in China with a total enrollment of over two million students and nearly 400,000 full-time teachers.There are about 1,700 research units affiliated to them staffed by over 30,000 R&D personnel;and in case all university faculty engaged in both teaching and research are converted into full-time equivalent (FTE)researchers,there are about 140,000 FTE researchers in the regular HEIs in China. China’s HEIs, being cradles of her qualified professional manpower with tertiary training and one of the bases for conducting scientific and technological re-
