周恩来在领导新中国建设过程中,对开创高等教育事业做出了重要贡献。他高度重视教育,初步确立了高等教育优先发展的战略地位;从国情出发,主持确定了党和国家的教育方针;遵循高等教育办学规律,强调基础理论教学和研究;根据经济建设需求,倡导产学研结合;大力推进高等教育改革,切实提高高等教育质量。 During his leadership of the construction of new China, Zhou Enlai made an important contribution to the cause of higher education. He attached great importance to education and preliminarily established the strategic status of giving priority to the development of higher education. He proceeded from the national conditions and presided over the education policy of the party and the state. He followed the law of running higher education and emphasized the teaching and research of basic theories. According to the needs of economic construction, Combine research with research, vigorously promote the reform of higher education and effectively improve the quality of higher education.