Cultural Innovation: Localization and Internationalization of China's Higher Education

摘要

The chief aim of the paper is to study the major function of higher education in cultural innovation through an analysis of how China's higher education nationalizes and internationalizes and draws challenges for cultural innovation. The starting points are an original contribution to the understanding of the role of higher education in relation to innovation (UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, 2009). On this basis we move ahead and the procedure we follow can be briefly described as follows: firstly, the paper makes a simple analysis about the characteristics of higher education localization and its influence on cultural innovation; meanwhile, the author puts forward several proposals for the reform of higher education in order to promote cultural innovation. Secondly, the author proceeds to emphasize the importance of higher education internationalization and its value in cultural innovation. Thirdly, the paper expounds internationalization communication and cooperation of Chinese higher education. At last, it is concluded that higher educational localization and internationalization are of great significance for realization of the function of cultural innovation keeping balance between Chinese native culture and international culture.