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To construct the quality evaluation system of IAP education of Chinese universities in the new era, it is necessary to find the quality positioning in the fundamental task of establishing moral education and pay attention to the synergy between the internal and external parts of the quality of IAP education of Chinese universities. The IAP education quality evaluation of Chinese universities are the multiple-attribute decision-making (MADM) issue. In this paper, we extend the geometric Heronian mean (GHM) operator to fuzzy number intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (FNIFNs) to propose the fuzzy number intuitionistic fuzzy weighted geometric HM (FNIFWGHM) operator. Then, the MADM method are built on FNIFWGHM operator. 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