As an important part of modern Chinese higher education, Christian universities have been under the spotlight, but they were suspended for various reasons soon, and then some were restructured or continued. Take University of Shanghai for an example. We should study the continuance of Christian universities under the premise of the reforms and social?economic development. It is concluded that sino foreign cooperation foreign cooperation and exchange on the basis of equality and mutual respect and mutual benefit has become the development trend of the Chinese higher education. However, we have also adopted a more confident, rational and objective attitude towards the history of Christian universities.