2024-10-23
To build a strong education country, the leader is higher education. Higher education should play a leading role, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and talents, better serve national strategies and economic and social development, and embark on a new path of building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics. Building China into a powerful educational country has been the aspiration of the Chinese nation since modern times. It is also the leading task, solid foundation and strategic support to comprehensively promote the construction of a powerful country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese path to modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the National Education Conference systematically deployed the strategic tasks and major measures to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong education country. To build a strong education country, the leader is higher education. In the new era and new journey, we should fully implement the Party's education policy, take root in China to run universities, deepen the comprehensive reform of higher education, strengthen the leading role of higher education, accelerate the construction of world-class universities and advantageous disciplines with Chinese characteristics, and promote China's higher education to form a strong ideological and political leadership, talent competitiveness, scientific and technological support, livelihood security, social synergy, and international influence, so as to provide strong support for comprehensively promoting the construction of a powerful country and national rejuvenation with Chinese path to modernization. Implementing the fundamental task of cultivating virtue and nurturing talents, and cultivating a new generation of people who can shoulder the great responsibility of national rejuvenation, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The education power we want to build is a socialist education power with Chinese characteristics. We must adhere to the socialist direction of education, closely focus on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and talent, and focus on cultivating socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor skills. We must answer the fundamental question of education: "What kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate them, and for whom to cultivate them". Strengthen and improve ideological and political education in schools in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "strengthening the construction of the ideological and political work system is an important part of forming a high-level talent training system." Universities should persistently use Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to forge the soul and educate people, deepen the reform and innovation of ideological and political courses, and forge key courses that fulfill the fundamental task of cultivating virtue and talent. Give full play to the advantages of disciplines and academia, promote the close integration of ideological and political education with professional education, deeply explore the educational functions of various courses, expand the new pattern of comprehensive education of "big ideological and political courses", and achieve the collaborative educational effect of closely integrating various courses with ideological and political courses and working together in the same direction. Enhance the breadth and depth of practical education, teach the "Great Ideological and Political Course" well in social life, educate and guide students to firmly believe in Marxism, socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in the social classroom, establish the great aspiration of serving the country and becoming responsible fighters, and bloom the flower of youth in the places where the motherland needs it most. Improve the mechanism for adjusting disciplinary settings and talent cultivation models. Developing new quality productive forces is an inherent requirement and important focus for promoting high-quality development, which puts forward new tasks and requirements for the talent cultivation structure and educational teaching level of universities. Colleges and universities should take technological development and national strategic needs as the driving force, improve the mechanism for adjusting discipline settings and talent cultivation models, and make extraordinary arrangements for urgently needed disciplines and majors. They should strengthen the construction of basic disciplines, emerging disciplines, interdisciplinary disciplines, and the cultivation of top-notch talents. By closely adhering to the requirements of new quality productivity and optimizing the training plan, we will focus on improving innovation and practical abilities, promote the integration of industry and education, deepen the integration of science and education, strengthen collaborative training, and build a new carrier for the deep integration of government, industry, academia, and research in education. We will accelerate the cultivation of high-level and scarce talents in fields such as integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, new energy, and new materials, and promote a talent training structure that is more in line with the urgent needs of industrial development. We should pay attention to groups such as strategic scientists, first-class scientific and technological leaders, innovation teams, and young innovative talents, deepen the reform of the talent development system and mechanism, make every effort to introduce and cultivate top talents without restriction, optimize the talent service guarantee system, comprehensively stimulate talent innovation vitality, and continuously build a new highland for gathering first-class talents. Build a high-level digital education system. Currently, with the rapid development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, the learning environment and teaching methods of higher education are undergoing systematic changes. Universities should seize the opportunity of the systematic integration of technology and education, and empower education with digital technology. We will focus on building a digitalized teaching system, supporting the cultivation of outstanding talents, deeply promoting the application of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and big data in teaching, optimizing the smart teaching environment, constructing a digital resource system, strengthening teachers' ability to use cutting-edge technology to teach students according to their aptitude, promoting students to use new technologies for deep learning, and continuously improving students' competence in the era of intelligence. Strengthen the construction of a high-quality and specialized teacher team. A strong country must first strengthen education, and a strong education must first strengthen teachers. Teachers bear the solemn and sacred mission of educating students. Universities should adhere to the principle of teacher ethics and style as the first criterion for evaluating the quality of the teaching staff, deeply implement the action of cultivating the soul and strengthening teachers with the spirit of educators, promote the development of teachers' abilities guided by moral education, create a strong atmosphere of respecting teachers and valuing education, play the exemplary role of a great teacher who stands by virtue, learns by virtue, and teaches by virtue, lead teachers to consciously become "four haves" good teachers, deeply practice the original intention and mission of educating students for the Party and the country, and pass on the torch of education from generation to generation. Efforts should be made to enhance innovation capabilities and better serve national strategies and economic and social development. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "we must coordinate the implementation of the strategies of rejuvenating the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talent, and innovation driven development, and promote education development, scientific and technological innovation, and talent cultivation as a whole." Currently, the world is undergoing unprecedented changes, and global scientific and technological innovation is unprecedentedly intensive and active. A new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is reconstructing the global innovation map and reshaping the global economic structure. As an important junction of technology as the primary productive force, talent as the primary resource, and innovation as the primary driving force, universities should play a more prominent role in the national innovation system, adhere to facing the forefront of world science and technology, the main battlefield of the economy, major national needs, and people's lives and health, and continuously advance towards the breadth and depth of science and technology. At the same time, we need to implement the Philosophy and Social Sciences Innovation Project and build an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences. Integrate into the new national system. Currently, the competition among countries around the world for the high ground of technological innovation is becoming increasingly fierce. It is necessary to fully leverage the advantages of the new national system, concentrate innovation resources, and carry out a "big battle" for scientific and technological breakthroughs. As an important component of the national strategic scientific and technological strength, universities should actively adapt to the laws of scientific and technological innovation in the era of big science, transform research paradigms and organizational models, promote the integrated allocation of resources and elements, build large platforms, form large teams, undertake large projects, and continuously enhance their ability to "reveal and lead". To enhance the overall efficiency of the national innovation system, we need to further strengthen collaboration and linkage with national laboratories, scientific research institutions, and leading technology enterprises, enhance research and innovation in key common technologies, cutting-edge leading technologies, modern engineering technologies, and disruptive technologies, and effectively serve high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement. Promote the organic integration of innovation chain and industrial chain. As the main force of basic research and major technological breakthroughs, high-level research universities should focus on national strategies, adhere to goal orientation and free exploration, play a role in basic research in major fields, encourage high-risk and high-value basic research, focus on solving the source and underlying problems of key core technologies, achieve more "zero to one" original innovation, and walk the "first mile" of scientific and technological innovation. We need to identify the scenarios for the integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, strengthen school enterprise cooperation and school local cooperation, effectively connect the supply side and demand side of scientific and technological achievements, promote more scientific and technological achievements to be transformed into real productivity as soon as possible, and assist in the "last mile" of industrial innovation. Building an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences. Chinese path to modernization is a kind of modernization in which material civilization and spiritual civilization are coordinated. As an important force in the "Five Forces Army" of philosophy and social sciences in China, universities should strengthen the Party's innovative theoretical system, chemical, physical and chemical research and interpretation, and application of achievements, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and form a discipline system, academic system, and discourse system with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese style. Under the profound influence of the new round of technological revolution, the research objects and methods of philosophy and social sciences have presented many new characteristics and trends. Universities should closely integrate the origins of disciplines with the characteristics of the times, break away from traditional models, innovate research paradigms, build emerging disciplines such as "digital humanities" and "digital economy", accelerate the construction of digital intelligence platforms and philosophy and social science laboratories, generate more new ideas, theories, and plans that lead the progress of the times, and promote the acceleration of the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences. Deepen the comprehensive reform of higher education and embark on a new path to build a world-class university with Chinese characteristics. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "from an education powerhouse to an education powerhouse is a systematic leap and qualitative change, which must be driven by reform and innovation." Universities should be at the forefront of education reform, systematically deepen the reform of education methods, modes of operation, management systems, and guarantee mechanisms, accelerate the construction of a dynamic, efficient, more open, and high-quality development system and mechanism, and effectively empower the high-quality development of the economy and society with the new achievements of reform, and provide satisfactory higher education for the people. Adhere to and strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership over universities. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "adhering to and strengthening the comprehensive leadership of the Party is related to the future and destiny of the Party and the country. All of our undertakings are built on this foundation, rooted in this most essential characteristic and greatest advantage." University Party committees should fully implement the general requirements of Party building in the new era, adhere to the leadership of Party political construction, model the system of principal responsibility under the leadership of Party committees, deeply implement the "first agenda" system, and effectively achieve Party management of the direction of education, Party management of cadres and talents, Party management of ideology, and leadership of reform and development. We will closely focus on guiding the direction, managing the overall situation, making decisions, strengthening the leadership team, leading the team, and ensuring the implementation of responsibilities, improve the modern university system, and effectively assume the main responsibility of managing the Party and the school. Promote the normalization and long-term implementation of Party discipline learning and education, ensuring that the Party remains the strong leadership core and most reliable backbone of all work in universities. Deepen the reform of educational evaluation. Educational evaluation is related to the direction of educational development. The evaluation baton determines the direction of education. We must adhere to the fundamental standard of cultivating morality and talent, improve the comprehensive quality evaluation system for students, strengthen the evaluation of ideals and beliefs, improve the academic evaluation mechanism, deepen the reform of physical education teaching, optimize aesthetic education, strengthen labor education, promote the comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, and guide students to consciously become new people with ideals, abilities, and responsibilities in the times. Improve the teacher evaluation mechanism, strengthen the assessment and evaluation of ideological, political, and professional ethics and teaching style in talent introduction, professional title promotion, job recruitment, and awards, highlight the weight of teaching quality in teacher evaluation and recruitment, vigorously reduce the burden on teachers, and ensure that teachers can fully devote themselves to teaching and scientific research. Optimize the academic evaluation ecosystem guided by serving the national strategy, grasp the laws of academic development and talent growth, highlight quality, contribution, and characteristics, reverse the erroneous tendency of "emphasizing international standards over Chinese characteristics, emphasizing explicit indicators over service contributions", resolutely eliminate the "five only", highlight the setting of evaluation cycles with medium and long-term orientation, and encourage continuous research and long-term accumulation. Promote high-level development