除了坚定目标自信、路径自信、能力自信，高校还应当充分发挥三种优势：一是后发优势，通过持续引进海外杰出学术人才，学习借鉴世界一流大学的先进经验，实现学术水平和办学质量的显著提升；二是文化优势，继承中华文明在五千年积淀的智慧内涵，弘扬发展优秀传统文化，以此来凝聚力量、塑造品牌、提升形象；三是制度优势，发挥社会主义国家的制度优越性，强化目标驱动，汇集共识合力，优化资源配置，为学校加速赶超世界先进水平提供可持续的坚实保障。
In addition to insisting on objective confidence, path confidence and ability confidence, universities and colleges shall also give full play to three advantages: the first one is the advantage of backwardness; through the continuous introduction of overseas outstanding academic talents and learning from the advanced experience of world-class universities, significantly improve the academic level and school running quality; the second one is the cultural advantage; inheriting the wisdom of the Chinese civilization accumulated for five thousand years and carrying forward excellent traditional culture, unify strength, build brand and improve image; the third one is system advantage; give play to the institutional advantages of socialist countries, strengthen objective driving, collect consensus and joining forces, optimize resource configuration, and provide sustainable and solid support for the university to speed up catching up with and surpassing the world advanced level.