Currently,university charters are basically vacant or nominal in the universities of China,although they serve as a basis of administration and self-governance of modern universities.In the administrative system and the governance mechanism of a university,the common characteristics of administrative control and power standard grow out of the tendencies,such as a blurred legal entity of university,abused administrative functions and weakened academic authority.They restrict the proper functions of the higher education,and are entirely incompatible with modern university system which conforms to the situation in China and keeps in line with international standards.Therefore,charters play an indispensable and fundamental role in managing a university by law in order that the government’s supervision would be reformed,the university self-governance would be reinstated and the corporate governance would be straightened out inside the university."Operation in accordance with charters" might cure the chronic malady of administration-controlled universities.