Since the reform and opening up, China's higher education has developed rapidly, and new things are emerging. While the phenomenon of running schools in different places in colleges and universities is rarely supported and recognized by the education authorities and experts and scholars, it has appeared in large numbers during the expansion of higher education, and many models such as private branch schools, small campuses, large-scale campuses, graduate schools and so on have appeared in the development of different places. Moving into a new era of connotative development, colleges and universities generally pay attention to the improvement of the quality of running schools. The Ministry of Education's Opinions on the Establishment of Colleges and Universities during the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" clearly stipulates that "colleges and universities should not be encouraged or supported to run schools in different places across provinces, especially to strictly control the colleges and universities affiliated to ministries and commissions and universities in the central and western regions to run schools in different places across provinces in the eastern region. In principle, they should not approve the establishment of schools in different places across provinces". Some colleges and universities have begun to clean up the off-site graduate schools. ■ The "planning and market" factor in the layout of colleges and universities Before 1992, China implemented a planned economic system, and colleges and universities were set up according to regions, so there was an inter-provincial imbalance, such as Beijing and Tianjin were the most universities in North China, Liaoning was the most universities in Northeast China, Shanghai and Jiangsu were the most universities in East China, Hubei was the most universities in Central and South China, Sichuan was the most universities in Southwest China, and Shaanxi was the most universities in Northwest China. After the transition to the socialist market economy system, especially after the expansion of college enrollment in 1999, the enthusiasm for developing higher education in all regions was stimulated, and the number of ordinary colleges and universities in most provinces and cities increased, with Guangdong, Zhejiang and other provinces having a large growth rate. During this period, some teaching-oriented colleges and universities have expanded, while Shenzhen has used its advantages in the special zone to introduce graduate schools of Peking University, Tsinghua University and Harbin University of Technology to build a university town. Although the development process is led by the local government, it is actually a market force. After the completion of continuous enrollment expansion, higher education began to enter the stage of focusing on improving quality. By around 2010, the enthusiasm of some provinces and cities to run high-level universities has increased. It is obviously the easiest way to introduce well-known universities from a high starting point. In this way, cities with developed economies and beautiful scenery will naturally take advantage, and the phenomenon of "peacock flying southeast" will intensify. This is the general outline of the layout adjustment of colleges and universities in the past three decades, with the participation of various factors including planning and market, including various forms of running schools in different places. The impulse to run a school in a different place is not from the education department, but from the local, which is the need of local development. After sorting out the urban development path after the reform and opening up, it can be found that it has roughly experienced three stages of showing degree, namely, the construction of industrial parks by attracting investment, the construction of science and technology parks by science and technology, and the construction of university towns by education. Among them, the introduction of famous universities is a big dividend to the brand, economy, and culture of the city. Locally, it has indeed promoted the upgrading and development of regional economy to a certain extent. From the perspective of universities, some preferential policies, especially the "turnkey project", make it difficult for schools to resist this temptation. However, from the perspective of "one game of chess for the whole country", the total amount of higher education is constrained. This mode is only beneficial to a few cities, and the practice of "spreading the stall" is not conducive to the high-level development of universities. The main problems brought by running schools in different places include: increasing management costs and disadvantages, weakening the characteristics of running schools, diluting the quality of education, dispersing the focus of development and energy of running schools, and so on. Education experts