Abstract: In the new era, targeted support from universities is a policy action aimed at enhancing the comprehensive capacity of regional higher education, which plays a significant role in promoting the development of higher education in assisted areas. On the basis of clarifying the characteristics, subjects, and responsibility boundaries of university counterpart support cooperation, this paper analyzes the multidimensional constraints faced by the university counterpart support ecosystem, such as policy implementation “suspension”, cooperation relationship “alienation”, platform function “virtualization”, talent flow “blockage”, and evaluation system “shortsightedness”. From the perspective of modern university governance, it is proposed that the construction of the university counterpart support cooperation ecosystem should be based on the principles of systematicity, synergy, and sustainability. Through a multidimensional linkage framework of strategic layer, resource layer, guarantee layer, and feedback layer, steady-state regulation can be achieved, and a closed-loop structure of “goal resource mechanism efficiency” can be constructed to continuously improve the effectiveness of education governance and promote the balanced and sustainable development of higher education.

Key words: counterpart support, cooperation, ecosystem