Since the founding of the People's Republic of China,The policies of financial aid to university students in China have gone through two stages:the single stage of free financial aid and the main stage of free financial aid supplemented by paid one.Using the advocacy alliance framework to analyze the policy of this change in the past 70 years,we find that in the process of policy change,two major alliances have been formed:the alliance of"free funding"and the alliance of"paid funding".In order to possess or maintain a dominant position in the policy subsystem,the two coalitions,under the influ...