Abstract: The popularization of higher education has ushered in its high-quality development, diversified that relies on scientific classification. Such development features with a diversification of research universities, applied universities and higher vocational colleges. An institutional environment should be built to separate “supervision, operation and evaluation” and “streamline administration and delegate power, improve regulation, and upgrade services” so as to realize the modernization of governance relations; the relationship between administration and academia, universities (colleges) and their sub-teaching institutions should be balanced so as to realize the modernization of internal governance structure; a diversified evaluation mechanism should be established and different universities (colleges) classified and evaluated so as to realize the modernization of the evaluation mechanism; an effective interaction with other disciplines should be strengthened and higher education should be developed into an independent first-class discipline so as to continuously improve the modernization of university governance. In this way, the university can be an important part of the community with a shared future for mankind. The university community with a shared future can foster a new generation with sound values and ethics of the times, provide scientific research achievements and technical support, inherit and innovate human civilization, thus injecting strong impetus into promoting mutual trust and cooperation, exchanges and mutual learning, mutual benefit and win-win results among countries.

Key words: higher education, popularization, university governance, governance modernization, high quality development, classified evaluation, diversified development, a university community with a shared future