In 2022, the number of graduate students enrolled in China reached 1.2425 million. The number of master's degree awarding units in China has increased to 779, including 451 doctoral degree awarding units. Currently, graduate education has become a core driving element of the strategy of revitalizing the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talent development, and innovation driven development. A series of data shows that the era of graduate education in China is accelerating. Recently, the first China Degree and Graduate Education Conference and China Graduate Education Yangtze River Forum were held in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Nearly 700 graduate training units, employers, government regulatory departments, and industry enterprise leaders across the country, as well as over 100 academicians, university secretaries, and presidents, gathered together to discuss the core elements and hot and difficult issues of current graduate education and top innovative talent cultivation, and discuss the reform and development of graduate education in China. As the pinnacle of talent cultivation, how is graduate education different from other levels? What are the areas for improvement in China's graduate education system? How to systematically optimize the graduate education system in the future? With questions in mind, the reporter and on-site experts and scholars are exploring a new path of the era from a major country in graduate education to a strong country in graduate education. Against the backdrop of the "two overall situations", how has the mission and task of higher education, especially graduate education, undergone significant changes in building an innovative and leading technology culture, facing complex situations such as "challenges in development", "breakthroughs in suppression", and "games in openness"? In the view of attending experts, as the pinnacle of academic education, graduate education has become a key link in cultivating top-notch innovative talents and even "masters". Zhao Qinping, an academician of the CAE Member and professor of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, believes that the cultivation of high-level innovative talents needs to consider factors other than learning and even innovation ability. Cultivating science and technology masters requires an innovative and leading technology culture. Throughout history, China's higher education has mainly nurtured a culture of tracking and catching up technology, which has played a very important role in catching up with the world's technological powers. However, as China's technological innovation shifts from following and running to even catching up, it is urgent to build an innovative and leading technology culture. This is an era that calls for academic masters. "In the view of Feng Changgen, former secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology and professor at Beijing University of Technology, the lack of strategic leading talents is currently a prominent problem facing China's scientific and technological development. The path of masters is a path of exploration and exploration, and it is also an uneven path. Masters are the embodiment of concepts, propositions, or theories. It is not too difficult to propose a new concept, but it is difficult to gain recognition from the world. Masters must innovate in the construction of concepts, propositions, and theories. "Fan Hailin, director of the Degree and Graduate Education Development Center of the Ministry of Education, said that higher education is moving towards a new journey and needs to continuously improve its own development level internally, Externally, we should focus on world-class, reflect international commonalities, and see development in the world coordinate system; To have sufficient discourse power and competitiveness worldwide, cultivate top-notch innovative talents, launch major original innovation achievements, and strengthen key technological breakthroughs. "Compared with other stages of education, graduate education has its own distinctive characteristics." Academician of the CAS Member, Chinese degree and research