China’s higher education has entered the stage of mass education from elite education，and moved from focusing on scale education to a new stage of high quality education. However，with the rapid development of market economy and social transformation，the internal management system of private colleges and universities also faces many challenges. The development of private colleges and universities is restricted by unclear orientation of running schools，imperfect leadership mechanism，low efficiency of teaching management mechanism，insufficient innovation of personnel management system，and imperfect democratic management and supervision mechanism. Private colleges and universities should firmly grasp the historical position of the new era，strengthen top-level design，improve the internal management mechanism，improve the principal responsibility system under the leadership of the board of directors，give full play to the political leading role of party organizations in the internal management system of colleges and universities，improve democratic management and supervision mechanisms such as the teachers’ congress，the students’ congress and the academic Committee，and promote private colleges and universities to manage their education and schools in accordance with the law.