Based on a systematic literature review, the book aims to forecast China's public investment scale in higher education, the allocation structure and proportion of different higher education institutions in the next decade.

Yongmei Hu is a professor of the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. Since 2016, she has been a vice editor-in-chief of the editorial board of China Economics of Education Review and a member of the executive board of the Association of China Education and Economics. Her research interests focus on the educational production function, school efficiency analysis, and educational finance policy. She has published more than 140 papers in Chinese and international journals.

Yipeng Tang is an associate professor with the Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. He received his PhD in economics of education from Beijing Normal University. He was granted Young Researcher Funds by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China. He has published more than 40 research articles in academic journals. His research interests include higher education finance, teacher policy, and student development.

1: Introduction 2: Basic methods of financial forecasting research in higher education 3: The adequacy and equity of the financial resources of higher education 4: Forecasting the scale of public investment in higher education 5: Forecasting the allocation structure and proportion of the public investment for different types of higher education institutions 6: Research on the standard for the teaching funding and average student funding in higher education 7: Research on the standard of average teacher research funding for university teachers