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After the failure of the first two rounds of "double first-class" university construction, Shandong, a major economic province, began to concentrate on key breakthroughs.
Recently, the first Teaching Congress and the 17th Workers' Congress of Shandong Agricultural University issued a proposal of "Decisive Battle in the 14th Five-Year Plan" and "Rushing to the First-class" to Strive for the Comprehensive Construction of a First-class Agricultural University", which clearly mentioned: "The Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Party Committee have decided to give priority to supporting and focusing on supporting our university to impact the 'double first-class', and it is the only provincial university that chooses to support our university to enter the third round of national 'double first-class' construction in 2026." ”
Prior to this, Shandong Agricultural University held a demonstration meeting on the "first-class" construction plan in Jinan, and Deng Yunfeng, vice governor of Shandong Province, also said that the provincial party committee and the provincial government will unswervingly and fully support the construction of "double first-class" of Shandong Agricultural University, and concentrate on providing solid services and guarantees for the school to rush to the first-class.
Official website of Shandong Agricultural University.
Compared with the support set at the beginning of the year to support about 10 advantageous disciplines to impact the national "double first-class" construction disciplines, the only "bet" on Shandong Agricultural University at the moment is quite a bit of a ruin. At the same time, the "top leaders" of the party and government in Shandong have successively investigated the first university (preparation), which is a key signal for the breakthrough of the head.
In the eyes of the outside world, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Hebei are known as the "four provinces of mountains and rivers" because of the lack of higher resources, and Shandong's entry into the group seems to be "stiff" from the beginning, after all, the number of undergraduate colleges and universities ranks second in the country, and there are 3 "double first-class" universities.
However, if we look at the major economic provinces, the level of higher education in Shandong is far from that of Guangdong and Jiangsu. If the third round of "double first-class" goals is successfully achieved, Shandong will have 4 "double first-class" universities and a number of new high-level universities, what changes will this bring to Shandong?
Among the "four provinces of mountains and rivers", Shandong is the most solid one. A total of 2 985 universities are in Shandong, namely Shandong University and Ocean University of ChinaThere are a total of 4 211 universities, 1 of which is in Shandong, which is China University of Petroleum (East China).
Even so, the performance of Shandong's first two rounds of "double first-class" construction is still embarrassing - in the first round of double first-class university construction list, Shandong only has the original 3 211 (or 985) universities on the list, and Henan has added Henan University to the list while Zhengzhou University, the original 211 university, has been selected;In the second round of "double first-class" university construction, there is still no new addition in Shandong, but Shanxi University has completed new breakthroughs in Shanxi.
At present, in the face of the approaching third round of "double first-class" construction, Shandong can be said to be riveting. Recently, the Shandong Provincial Department of Education and the Provincial Department of Finance announced the list of advantageous disciplines and potential disciplines of the "811" project of first-class discipline construction in Shandong Province, with a total of 20 disciplines from 9 universities, including Shandong University, China University of Petroleum (East China), Ocean University of China, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong Normal University, and Shandong Agricultural University.
Qilu Evening News.
Soon after, Shandong Normal University, Shandong Agricultural University, Shandong University of Science and Technology, etc., successively held a demonstration meeting on the "first-class" construction plan. Shandong Agricultural University "officially announced" that Shandong is the only provincial university that chooses to support Shandong Agricultural University to enter the third round of national "double first-class" construction in 2026.
Xu Jianbo, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shandong Agricultural University, said that Shandong Agricultural University will use the strength of the whole university to overcome difficulties in the breakthrough of first-class disciplines in crop science and horticulture, and strive to enter the ranks of the national "double first-class" construction.
There is a view that the reason why Shandong chose to support Shandong Agricultural University among the seed players such as Shandong Agricultural University, Shandong Normal University, and Shandong University of Science and Technology is to a certain extent to concentrate on efforts and avoid regrets in the first two rounds.
If Shandong gets its wish in 2026, the number of "double first-class" universities will increase to 4. At the same time, Shandong is also actively promoting the construction of new high-level universities and accelerating the shortcomings of high-end innovation resources. In November this year, Lin Wu, Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, and Zhou Naixiang, Governor of Shandong Province, successively investigated the construction of ** university (preparation), and the degree of attention can be seen.
This is the first university in the country to be named after "**", and it has declared three undergraduate majors: engineering, sports, and homework, and is expected to start recruiting students in 2024. The high-profile Aerospace Information University (in preparation) has also made new progress, not long ago revealed that the planned enrollment scale of 10,000 people, including 5,000 undergraduates, 3,000 master's students, and 2,000 doctoral students, is expected to start recruiting undergraduates in 2025.
This also means that in the next 2-3 years, Shandong may add 1 "double first-class" university and at least 2 new industrial universities, which will greatly make up for the structural shortcomings of higher education.
In fact, the plight of higher education in Shandong is somewhat "alternative".
Compared with Henan and Hebei, which have a large number of universities and a very low proportion of undergraduates, Shandong not only ranks among the top four in the country in terms of the number of universities (156), but also ranks second in the country in terms of the number of undergraduate universities (70), second only to Jiangsu.
In other words, on the map of higher education in Shandong, there is no shortage of plateaus or even mountains, but there is a lack of "peaks". Even Shandong University, the strongest university in the province, can only rank around 20 in various lists. Hu Jinyan, Secretary of the Party Committee of Qingdao University, previously analyzed——
The overall situation of local colleges and universities in Shandong is that there are many mountains and few peaks, some colleges and universities have a large pie in professional construction, the development of disciplines is not focused, the characteristics of running schools are not obvious, the comparative advantages are not prominent, and the financial resources and conditions are insufficient, and they lack attractiveness and competitiveness in the introduction of high-level talents.
This is also the prominent crux of higher education in Shandong in the past ten years. Since the beginning of 2010, the problem of "mountains without peaks" has been frequently reported in the newspapers, and the provincial level of Shandong is also trying to improve the level of higher education.
In order to solve the problems of unclear classification, unclear positioning, and convergence of development directions of colleges and universities in the province, in November 2019, Shandong Province issued the "Implementation Plan for the Classification and Assessment of Undergraduate Colleges and Universities in Shandong Province (Trial)", which implements classification assessment for provincial public universities according to three categories, opening a new era of "similar competition and diversified development".
State Key Laboratory of Shandong Agricultural University **Shandong Agricultural University.
According to statistics, in the past ten years (2012 to 2022), there have been 9 new undergraduate universities in Shandong, namely: Shandong First Medical University, Qingdao Hengxing University of Science and Technology, Shandong Modern University, Shandong University of Engineering and Technology, Shandong University of Foreign Chinese and Technology, Shandong Huayu Institute of Technology, Shandong Foreign Affairs Vocational University, Shandong University of Management, and Shandong Agricultural Engineering College.
Judging from these new universities, the structure of higher education in Shandong is gradually being optimized, and the industrial characteristics tend to be obvious. For example, the establishment of the new Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Shandong First Medical University (Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences), and the integration of Shandong Chemical Research Institute into Qingdao University of Science and Technology, etc., is to integrate innovative resources with the model of "integration of science and education" and promote the continuous breakthrough of universities with industry characteristics.
Dong Yanling, dean and professor of the Regional Economic Research Institute of Shandong University of Finance and Economics, analyzed that relatively speaking, at this stage, Shandong attaches great importance to the development of disciplines in the field of industrial technology, such as engineering colleges and agricultural colleges, and "the investment force is greater". Just like Shandong First Medical University, it is closely integrated with Jinan to build a famous health care city, and the support for some engineering colleges and universities is often in line with the strategy of regional development.
This is also the core logic of supporting Shandong Agricultural University to enter the construction of "double first-class" universities, as well as promoting the preparation for the establishment of first-class universities and aerospace information universities at a high level.
Not long ago, the first economic work conference pointed out that in order to coordinate the resolution of local debt risks and stable development, major economic provinces should really take the lead and make greater contributions to stabilizing the national economy. This also puts forward new expectations for Shandong, a major economic and industrial province.
At present, Shandong's important mission is to build a green, low-carbon and high-quality development pilot zone, and deepening the conversion of old and new kinetic energy is naturally the top priority. In the past years, Shandong's economy has ranked among the top three, but there are more heavy industry and energy enterprises in the industrial structure, while there are relatively few high-tech enterprises and modern service industries, and the support of emerging industries needs to be further improved.
At the end of last month, the Shandong Provincial New Industrialization Promotion Conference was held in Jinan, and the path of conversion of new and old kinetic energy was further clarified. Lin Wu stressed that it is necessary to speed up the process of new-type industrialization in an all-round way. The first key task is to focus on high-end development and adjust the industrial structure
We will continue to strengthen the cultivation of emerging industries, focus on seven key industries such as new generation information technology, high-end equipment, new energy and new materials, modern medicine, green environmental protection, and new energy vehicles, accelerate the innovation and application of key core technologies, and promote the integration of emerging industriesIn terms of the layout of future industries, it focuses on the seven future industrial ...... of the metaverse, artificial intelligence, life sciences, future networks, quantum technology, humanoid robots, and deep-sea aerospace space
In the first 10 months of this year, the added value of industrial enterprises above the designated size in Shandong Province increased by 69%, higher than the national 28 percentage points, ranking second among the top ten industrial provinces;At the same time, the energy intensity of industrial enterprises above the scale decreased by 48%, the output value of high-tech industries accounted for more than half for the first time. In fact, the conversion of old and new kinetic energy in Shandong Province has achieved certain results, and "leading the construction of a modern industrial system with scientific and technological innovation" needs to be strengthened urgently.
How to further accelerate the process of new industrialization?In the view of Zhang Haibo, director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Shandong will adhere to both traditional industries and emerging industries, deepen the "transformation of 10,000 technological transformations and 10,000 enterprises", and optimize the layout of refining, steel, and building materials. In the cultivation of new quality productivity, it is necessary to strengthen the two carriers of innovation platforms and innovative talents, deepen the two major projects of industrial base reengineering and major technical equipment research, and actively cultivate more first sets of major technical equipment to create more "important weapons of the country".
Whether it is an innovation platform or an innovative talent, colleges and universities are an important carrier. On the one hand, Shandong is guided by the construction of "double first-class" and accelerates the implementation of the "811" project for the construction of first-class disciplines, and on the other hand, it makes every effort to promote the integration of industry and education, and promote the precise docking of the industrial chain and the innovation chain.
For example, Jinan and Qingdao have been included in the national pilot cities for the integration of industry and education, and five cities including Yantai are provincial pilot cities for the integration of industry and education. These cities are rich in higher education resources and industrial resources.
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Two days later (December 27), the Shandong Provincial University Industry and Education Integration Fair will be held in Yantai. At that time, 24 school-land, school-enterprise signing and unveiling projects, including the signing of a cooperation agreement between Yantai City and Shandong University, the development of graphene water oxygen barrier film between Peking University and Wanhua Chemical Group, and the Shandong Engineer Technology Center of the Excellent Engineer College of Harbin Engineering University, will be held, and the integration of industry and education in three industries, including high-end offshore oil and gas equipment, intelligent construction and operation and maintenance of transportation infrastructure, and safety and emergency management, will be launched.
Driven by these pilot cities for the integration of industry and education, the interaction between Shandong's top universities and enterprises is becoming more and more frequent. The accelerated layout of top universities in the industry, such as Aerospace Information University, will also open up more imagination space for the transformation of new and old kinetic energy in the province and the future track.
National Business Daily.