Lying in a transformation period of economic development, economic prosperity, social progress and development in science and technology have to rely on strong competitiveness of a nation's universities to a large degree. Actually, universities' competitiveness is closely related to the improvement of a nation's competitiveness in human resources, industrial development and its comprehensive strength. From the perspective of universities' international strategic alliance, this paper analyzes the ways to improve Chinese universities' competitiveness as well as its components based on the theory of improving international competitiveness through Sino-foreign cooperative school operation.