| The counterpart assistance is an important strategy in the The Grand Western Development Program, aimed at balancing the development of higher education in the eastern and western regions of China. It is an essential component of the policy researches of higher education. The Ministry of Education started the program of counterpart assistance to universities in western regions in June2001. The policy objectives of east-west university counterpart assistance program are to promote the sharing of educational experience, knowledge, information and material resources between eastern western universities. Through the coordination of resources it is intended to improve the quality and efficiency of the western higher education, as well as to promote economic and social development. In the first ten years the policy has been successful in achieve plentiful results for example1) a leapfrog development in the field of Information Technology2) an increase in the quality of education in the western region3) improvements in university facilities4) improved construction standards5) raised standards of scientific research through increases in research funding and6) a substantial increase in awareness and capacity of services to local economic and social development. However, a huge gap still exists between the eastern and western universities. In July2010, the National Education Plan (2010-2020) was released and made it clear to the continued implementation of the eastern universities supporting their western universities counterparts, which was still a long way to go.The policy of counterpart assistance of chinese universities was released and started in the form of a "political task", which was led by the government that designated "twinning" universities, without a stable sustained funding for that, therefore the eastern universities needed to actively raise funds for implementation of aid and a full range of cooperation to the recipient colleges and universities. Thus universities counterpart support reflected significant policy-led characteristics, which resulted in that policy quality and benign operation of policy system has important influence on the effectively carrying out of counterpart assistance of Chinese universities. Policy analysis was introduced in China in the1980s as a specific method of policy research, which was based on rational analysis and scientific decision-making as its core, and formed a more normative research paradigm. At present it is widely used in many of China's important decision-making areas, play an important role to improve the quality of decision-making, to standardize the implementation of policies, as well as to enhance the effects of policies practice. In practice of the policy of counterpart assistance of Chinese universities, the use of policy analysis not only helps to improve decision-making ability and level of decision-makers and to improve policy quality, but also contribute to more scientific and democratic construction of policy process.Stage model is the dominant model to research the policy of counterpart assistance of Chinese universities. This paper uses policy analysis method to make an in-depth research on the policy of counterpart assistance of Chinese universities, from varied aspects as policy formulation, policy implementation, policy evaluation and policy monitoring. This paper analyzes universities counterpart support policy-making process by applying asymptotic analysis, through interviews with policy makers and policy textual study, to find out the level of consistency between actual situation of policy making and rational decision-making process, which helps to understand and grasp the formulation process, connotation and essence of the policy of counterpart assistance of Chinese universities. Only after the implementation of policies is it possible to reflect the effect of those. It has been more than10years for the implementation of the policy of counterpart assistance of Chinese universities, the overall effectiveness of that is good with its multiple characteristic development, however, there was a "difficult execution" predicament in some local areas, some deviation behavior during policy implementation also occurred. It will be beneficial for the correction of that by analysis of the reasons and take corresponding measures to offset. It is policy monitoring and policy evaluation that supports policy formulation and implementation of counterpart assistance of Chinese universities. Universities counterpart assistance policies need to be monitored, because of the uncertainty of policies features and policy processes, It is by process monitoring that timely adjustment of policies facing new situation and new problems become possible. The policy of counterpart assistance of Chinese universities has not carried out systematic policy assessment, policy evaluation is a combination of political and technical factors, looking to the future, and attention should be paid to formulate the scientific evaluation standards and to handle assessment problems correctly based on objectivity and impartiality principles.The regionally-uneven development of higher education is a common phenomenon in the whole world. The United States, Russia and France, as well as South Korea and Japan in Asia have been exploring actively in enhancing the development of higher education in their less developed regions. Government leading, overall planning, regional interacting and human resources exploitation are the common characteristics of all countries that are willing to solve the problem of imbalanced educational development and the countries mentioned above provide us with lots of experience in the aspect of financial insurance, laws, national actions and marketing mechanisms. Knowing and learning such experience helps to improve the Policy of Counterpart Assistance of Chinese Universities and benefits the development of the western universities as well as the western region.The liveliness of policy analysis lies in its coming from practice, and it in turn serving practice. This paper, based on policy analysis of counterpart assistance of Chinese universities and on applying the method of international comparison, gives a deeper exploration of further developing the policy of counterpart assistance of Chinese universities, and puts forward the corresponding suggestions as follows, the first is to strengthen investigation and research, in order to guarantee the policy-making mechanism on counterpart assistance of Chinese universities with its democratization, scientific application, and legalization. Policy-making by democratization and by legalization is the means, with scientific policy-making as their goal; those three should interact as an organic whole, which promotes effective operation of the policy-making system of counterpart assistance of Chinese universities. The second is to strive to achieve a win-win situation, improve the effectiveness of implementation of those policies, in terms of ideology and policy implementation organizations, the implementation system, ability to execute, as well as the execution environment comprehensive improvement, in order to achieve win-win cooperation model, promote effectiveness and sustainable development of those policies. The third is to establish and improve the evaluation system of those policies with the community. For the status quo, it is important to strengthen the evaluation system of those policies as soon as possible, in terms of evaluation awareness, evaluation subject, evaluation criteria and evaluation process, in order to be widely recognized by the society. The fourth is overseas references in order to perfect and improve those policies. It is important to focus on learning from those overseas experiences in order to strengthen the legislation, to co-ordinate planning, as well as to adapt to the market, in order to further improve the policy system of counterpart assistance of Chinese universities, to ensure that higher education in the western region of China obtains increasing growth.
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