Engineers are an important force to promote engineering science and technology to benefit mankind and create the future, and are an important part of the national strategic talent force. To build a modern socialist country in an all-round way, we should guide more engineers to care about "national affairs" and shoulder "national responsibilities". Recently, on the occasion of the first selection and commendation of the "National Engineer Award", the general secretary made important instructions and put forward ardent expectations for the majority of engineering and technical personnel across the country, "I hope that the majority of engineering and technical personnel across the country will firmly serve the country with science and technology and benefit the people, have the courage to break through key core technologies, forge high-quality projects, promote the development of new quality productivity, accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance, serve high-quality development, and make greater contributions to the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation in an all-round way with Chinese-style modernization". It points out the way forward for promoting the construction of the engineer team in the new era.
Cultivating a large number of outstanding engineers is a practical need for China to accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system and promote the leap from a manufacturing country to a manufacturing power. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to accelerate the construction of national strategic talent forces, and strive to cultivate more masters, strategic scientists, first-class scientific and technological leaders and innovative teams, young scientific and technological talents, outstanding engineers, great craftsmen, and high-skilled talents. The general secretary emphasized at the talent work conference: "It is necessary to cultivate a large number of outstanding engineers, and strive to build a team of engineers who love the party and serve the country, are dedicated and dedicated, have outstanding technological innovation capabilities, and are good at solving complex engineering problems." "In the context of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation challenges, the development of China's manufacturing industry is facing a major historical opportunity of transformation and upgrading, leapfrog development, and it is necessary to cultivate a group of high-quality engineers. Since the beginning of the new century, the "Outstanding Engineer Education and Training Program" and the "Outstanding Engineer Education and Training Program" 20" and other policies have been launched and implemented, laying a solid foundation for accelerating the cultivation of outstanding engineering and scientific and technological talents. At present, China has built the world's largest engineering education system, and the number of engineers has increased from about 5.21 million in 2000 to about 2,059 in 202320,000 people, providing important intellectual support for China to promote new industrialization and support the high-level construction of a manufacturing power. Taking the majority of outstanding engineers as an example, higher engineering education should keep pace with the times, take the initiative to serve the national strategic needs, be anxious for the country's needs and meet the needs of the country, accelerate the cultivation of an engineer team that can promote industrial development and meet the needs of enterprises, and become the backbone of promoting high-quality development.
Improve the growth support, cultivate and build a large-scale team of outstanding engineers. The cultivation of excellent engineers is a systematic project. Facing the future, it is necessary to further intensify the independent training of engineering and technical personnel, continuously improve the social status of engineers, create conditions for them to become talented and make contributions, and create a strong atmosphere of seeing the wise and thinking together, working hard, overcoming difficulties, and striving for innovation. On the one hand, it is necessary to promote the construction of new engineering, highlight the integration of industry and education, focus on the task of new industrialization, lay out and build a number of future technology colleges, modern industry colleges, and professional characteristic colleges, build a "national excellent engineer practice base", and cultivate a group of digital transformation talents, advanced manufacturing technology talents, advanced basic technology talents and engineers with outstanding technological innovation capabilities and good at solving complex engineering problems in the field of traditional manufacturing; On the other hand, in the face of emerging industries and future industries, we should smooth the integrated design and virtuous cycle of education, science and technology, and talents, promote the organic connection of education chain, talent chain, industrial chain, and innovation chain, strengthen the construction of technology research and development platforms of "personal academic interests + national strategic needs + industrial development demands", encourage engineering and technical talents to anchor core technical problems, and give full play to the role of scientific and technological innovation in promoting and leading industrial technology upgrading.
Build a stage for innovation and encourage more engineers to show their strengths in the front line of industrial practice. The key to cultivating a large number of outstanding engineers with both ability and political integrity lies in taking the road of independent training of engineering and technical talents. In terms of top-level design, we should innovate the source training mechanism, further promote the teaching mode of industry-university-research cooperation, benchmark talent training against the layout of major national industries and closely follow the actual situation of industry enterprises, so that the cultivation of engineering and technical talents is closer to industrial practice, so that the research problems are more in line with realistic needs, dynamically update professional settings and teaching content according to specific practices, constantly update professional teaching standards, and improve the accuracy of talent training. In terms of channel construction, we should unblock the transformation of production, education and research, take the promotion of major scientific and technological projects as the starting point, explore the integrated engineering technology experimental innovation and creation platform that runs through the country, provinces, municipalities, universities and enterprises, dismantle the "fence wall" that hinders industrialization, dredge the fast lane of applied basic research and industrialization connection, accelerate the transformation of scientific research achievements from samples to products to commodities, and realize scientific research, experimental development, promotion and application.
Improve the evaluation mechanism, so that more young engineering talents can live and work with peace of mind. To continue to strengthen the construction of the team of outstanding engineers in the new era, we need to make great efforts and long-term efforts. The first is to promote the shaping of an innovation ecology with Chinese characteristics, deepen the reform of the evaluation of engineering and scientific and technological talents, and help the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the cultivation and growth of new quality productivity. The second is to continue to deepen the reform of the science and technology management system, constantly improve the differentiated evaluation and long-term support mechanism, and guide the majority of young engineering talents to cultivate a good style of study, be willing to sit on the "cold bench", study real problems, and come up with hard results. The third is to help young engineering talents better solve the "growing pains", support them to "take the lead" and "be the protagonist" in major national scientific and technological tasks, and give young scientific and technological talents more opportunities to take the lead and stand out, so that young scientific and technological talents can better settle down, feel at ease, and work safely, and form a vivid situation in which people are eager to become talents, everyone strives to become talents, and everyone shows their talents. The cultivation and growth of the team of outstanding engineers is inseparable from the strong social atmosphere of respecting knowledge, advocating innovation, respecting talents, loving science and dedicating themselves to science. In the future, we look forward to the emergence of more engineering and scientific and technological talents who love the party and serve the country, selfless dedication, proficient in skills, and excellence, and strive to be the creators of major scientific research achievements, the devotees of building a strong country in science and technology, the practitioners of lofty ideology and character, and the leaders of good social customs, and write a magnificent chapter in the great practice of promoting Chinese-style modernization!