In the era of globalization, obtaining the information is easy and the learning resources are richer and richer. There're frequent exchanges between cities and they learn and compete with each other. Therefore, learning city becomes the cities' spindle of future development. To promote learning cities, we have to integrate the city's lifelong learning resources effectively. Of schools at all levels, the most abundant resources are at universities. And the universities are educational institutions that are professional, diverse, and have perfect equipment.At the beginning of discussion, the research shows relationship between the universities and learning cities; in addition, the literature focused on the available resources of the universities in the learning city; moreover, the documentary analysis examined other foreign learning cities how to use the learning resources of the university effectively; The paper ends exploring the role of universities in learning cities.