Selfdevelopment is the internal need of the university organization as a relatively independent entity. To cope with the instability of the external environment, a university has to keep its fundamental organizational properties and distinctive school management characteristics, gain more resources for running school, and keep to the path of selfdevelopment. Selfconsciousness, which consists of selfknowledge and selfrestraint, is pivotal to selfdevelopment. The selfdevelopment of a university needs the institutional guarantee of university system construction, which, in its turn, needs the guidance of university charter which performs the function of “constitution” inside the university organization. China still have a long way to go in its university charter construction.