Based on the empirical analysis of education development in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region，the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta at the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan，the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is found to possess obvious advantages in population quality，resource investment scale，the proportion of financial funds，and the quality and competitiveness of higher education；however the weak sustained growth in education funds，the large differences and the hierarchic structure within the region present the prominent problems.The comparative advantages of education development in the Yangtze River Delta are reflected in three aspects：popularization level，teacher quality and internationalization level，and the balanced and high degree of education development.At the same time，it also suffers from the weak links as to the relatively low scale of education and insufficient investment in higher education students，which makes it difficult to support regional innovation and development.In the Pearl River Delta，the comparative advantages lie in the high scale of education，the increasing investment of public finance in education，and the high investment on college and university students；however，the shortcomings are found in the basic quality of population，education popularization level，resource investment，the low level in quality and competitiveness and internationalization.The Yangtze River Delta should promote the integrated education development strategy and improve the investment level in higher education；and it should adopt the connotative development strategy of education and rely on the high-quality resources from Hong Kong and Macao.