This paper makes a quantitative and comparative analysis between China-class Universities and World-class Universities, which is based on the results of Research Competitiveness of World-class Universities and Institutions Evaluation released by RCCSE and the valuable data accumulated during the evaluation process over the recent years For a long time, many factors, including research award system, educational philosophy, educational model and social environment, have led to unbalance of quantity and quality of research outputs The unbalance has affected seriously the developing process of China’s higher education