The proposal that a directorboard system be introduced into Chinese universities deserves to be deeply considered. Historically, there was no board of directors for a long time. Based on the current practice, not every university needs a board of directors. Functionally, the university’s board of directors mainly coordinates the value judgments from all sides and supplies support of external resources. However, for Chinese universities, the performance of the two abovementioned functions will be balanced by power and affected by governing strcture and regulation technology. Thus the advantages and disadvantages of introducing the directorboard system into universities cannot be determined in a general sense.

Chinese universities; university governance; directorboard system