Keywords: 
• 优质高等教育资源；分布格局；区域分布；省际分布；非均衡

Abstract: 

Since the Republic of China, the quality higher education resources in China have experienced three evolution including national universities to key universities, and “211” project universities and“985” project universities. In spite of its continuous increase of education resources, education in China is characterized with uneven distribution, especially the interprovincial disparity and regional imbalance. Concerning the interprovincial distribution, higher education resources experiences a transformation from relative balance to imbalance. Besides, quality of higher education in the eastern part of China is superior to that in midwestern part in terms of quality and quantity regionally. Meanwhile, the pattern that “the amount of quality higher education in the southern is more than that in the northern part of China” has changed. Distribution of quality higher education resources is inseparably connected with the change of political center and the overall development of regional economy.  But it is not completely related to the municipal and provincial economy development. Logically, the integration of municipal and provincial economic development capacity with governmental macromanagement is the key to reverse the imbalance.