The technological change in the digital era has brought unprecedented impact on higher education from educational contents and forms. The nature of Chinese private universities determines the strong internal driving force of the strategic transformation. Private universities take the needs of learners as the starting point, reconstruct higher education content, teaching methods, operation process through the internet, big data and other technologies, provide accurate customized life-long education products and services for the learners; Build a flexible management model centered on teaching and research, establish an open and dynamic mutual learning space and humanities community, and become a think tank of local economic development.