Based on the latest evaluation research report of the world-class university and research institutions coming from the Research Center for China Science Evaluation （RCCSE), this paper analyzes the result from four different aspects. Although the position is quiet behind, there is still an increasing number of universities from mainland of China entered into the world-class university ranking. On the way approaching to excellent, the distance for mainland of China is large to some extent, especially in building high quality modern universities, academic institutions and innovations.