There is a relatively unfair issue in China's higher education, which will objectively increase the regional development gap and have a negative impact on the coordinated and stable development of the social economy. Therefore, solving the problem of educational imbalance has become one of the main tasks of China's higher education reform. By sorting out and analyzing the specific manifestations of higher education inequality, combined with the overall development of China's social economy in the new era, this study analyzes its root causes, and summarizes the reasons for regional inequality in higher education. On the basis of fully considering the particularity and complexity of higher education, we regard higher education equity as a long‐term and systematic work, establish a global concept, formulate scientific reform strategies from the perspective of national strategy, effectively alleviate education inequality, and improve the scientific development level of higher education in China.