CCTV News (News Network): During this year's National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the new era and new journey must deeply grasp the demand for education, science and technology and talents, strengthen the supporting role of education in science and technology and talents, and further form a vivid situation where talents emerge in large numbers, people give full play to their talents, and talents make full use of them. Spring is coming, and everything is competing for success. Keeping in mind the earnest instructions of the General Secretary, my country's higher education is deepening reform and innovation, injecting strong momentum into helping high-level science and technology self-reliance and self-improvement and promoting Chinese-style modernization.
This spring, a series of large scientific installations are accelerating their implementation in various places, and the vitality of innovation is surging. In the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the "Shenzhen Free Electronic Laser" large scientific device led by Southern University of Science and Technology is accelerating its construction. After the completion of this major power, this major weapon will greatly contribute to the original innovation in the field of material science, and provide an important platform for cultivating top innovative talents and gathering top global talents.
In promoting Chinese-style modernization, science and technology are the key, talent is the foundation, and education is the foundation. Standing at the strategic height of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a series of arrangements, pointing out that it is necessary to coordinate the implementation of the strategy of building a country with science and education, the strategy of building a country with talents, and the strategy of innovation-driven development, and promote educational development, scientific and technological innovation, and talent training in an integrated manner. During this year's Two Sessions, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that to achieve a benign interaction between independent innovation in science and technology and independent cultivation of talents, education should further play a leading and basic supporting role.
To implement the important instructions of the General Secretary, all localities are taking the "Outline of the Planning for Building a Strong Education Country" as a blueprint to accelerate the breakthrough plan for basic disciplines and interdisciplinary disciplines, build a joint innovation platform for schools, enterprises and localities, and improve the efficiency of scientific and technological achievements transformation. At the forefront of education reform, Zhejiang University’s Basic Intersectional Research Institute is using discipline cluster reconstruction innovation models, and cutting-edge cross-sectional research platforms such as materials biology and quantum measurement to gather more than 20 disciplines to build a platform for basic original research and industrial disruptive innovation. At the Western China Science and Technology Innovation Port, Xi'an Jiaotong University and 85 leading enterprises are developing scientific research around the innovation needs of enterprises in the fields of embodied intelligence, energy and electricity.
Talents have a change in the supply and demand relationship, and education must be ahead and ahead. Welcoming the wave of the times, at present, hundreds of universities have set up artificial intelligence colleges, and 12 universities have built national innovation platforms for artificial intelligence industry-education integration to accelerate the cultivation of the core strength of artificial intelligence innovation.
Improving the adaptation mechanism for talent training and economic and social development needs. The Ministry of Education is accelerating the construction of a big data platform for talent supply and demand connection, and promoting universities to do a good job in "addition and subtraction" in subject and major adjustments. This year, the scale of undergraduate enrollment for "Double First-Class" universities will increase by 20,000, and the new plan will focus on urgently needed national strategies, basic disciplines, cutting-edge cross-cutting and emerging fields. Six universities including Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics will open new majors in "Low-altitude Technology and Engineering" to help the low-altitude economy take off. Fudan University is breaking the original department layout around six urgently needed areas such as integrated circuits, computing and intelligence, reorganizing the innovation college, and accelerating the layout of new engineering talents.
Resonates with the new development pattern, and the hard power of education to support science and technology and talents is constantly increasing. In the six months since the first regional technology transfer and transformation center of colleges and universities was completed, it has transformed and connected with more than 2,700 university achievements, providing more than 200 solutions to the technical pain points of enterprises. In key directions such as life and health, aerospace, the 12 future technology colleges planned and built by the Ministry of Education are bravely entering the future science and technology unmanned land. In line with regional industrial development, the contribution of 50 national-level modern industrial colleges jointly built by schools and enterprises to local economic development is continuing to increase.
