Observation of the two sessions
The 2024 ** work report proposes to accelerate the construction of a national strategic talent force, strive to cultivate more first-class scientific and technological leading talents and innovation teams, improve the discovery and training mechanism of top-notch innovative talents, build a basic research talent training platform, build an outstanding engineer and high-skilled talent team, and increase support for young scientific and technological talents. The issue of the independent ability of cultivating top-notch innovative talents has attracted the attention of the deputies and committee members.
At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, and the strategy of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement is being implemented in depth, holding the "bull's nose" of scientific and technological innovation leading high-quality development, and the cultivation and demand for top-notch innovative talents are becoming more and more intense. Just as "key core technologies cannot be bought, bought, or bought", high-level top-notch innovative talents, especially top-notch innovative talents with strategic core technologies, must also rely on independent training. The independent capacity building of the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents determines the core competitiveness of human resources. Adhering to the road of independent cultivation of top-notch innovative talents and continuously improving the independent and controllable ability of talent supply is an inevitable requirement of the Chinese path to modernization, and it is also a strategic choice to build a scientific and technological power.
The independent capacity building for the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents should help the cultivation of new productive talents. Higher-quality workers are the first element of new productivity. As the source of scientific and technological innovation and the gathering place of high-level talents, colleges and universities should become the main position of independent capacity building, and undertake the road of independent talent training to achieve a breakthrough in the paradigm of "from 0 to 1". However, at present, the characteristics of "high mean" and "small variance" in higher education are still relatively obvious, and there is a shortage of top talents for source innovation, and the independent ability of talent training has obvious shortcomings. The cultivation of top-notch innovative talents aiming at independent capacity building can form a "Chinese plan" to explore the cultivation of innovative talents.
Aiming at independent capacity building, it is necessary to break through organizational bottlenecks. In the face of the higher requirements of high-quality development for the quality, structure and competitiveness of talents, it is necessary to break through the traditional organizational model of a single discipline and a single department to meet the demand for top-notch innovative talents under the new strategy. On the one hand, colleges and universities should actively explore the college system, top-notch classes and other training models, break through disciplinary barriers, concentrate high-quality educational resources, and promote the standardized training of top-notch innovative talents. On the other hand, it is necessary to break through the existing curriculum system, accelerate the reform of education and teaching mode, and cultivate students' ability to actively explore and learn independently by creating an innovation platform, encouraging scientific research practice, and adding advanced and advanced challenges, scientific research, etc., so as to improve the training efficiency of top-notch innovative talents.
Aiming at independent capacity building, it is necessary to innovate the training mechanism. Talent training is the foundation of education and teaching, and the setting of disciplines and specialties is the core pillar and the key to the independent cultivation ability of top-notch innovative talents. The independent cultivation of top-notch innovative talents should look at education beyond education, be guided by serving the high-quality development of the economy and society, think about what the country thinks, be anxious about what the country is anxious about, and respond to the needs of the country. On the one hand, colleges and universities should break the routine, change the education, teaching and cultural soil, answer the three key questions of how to select, how to cultivate, and how to evaluate, and actively promote the coordination of talent demand, early warning, training, and evaluation, so as to better realize the matching and mutual promotion of disciplines and industrial chains, innovation chains, and talent chains. On the other hand, it is necessary to pay attention to the reform of talent training mode, comprehensively promote interdisciplinary, general education, personality development, etc., and explore the full-cycle growth evaluation mechanism of unconventional top-notch innovative talents, so as to promote the all-round growth of top-notch innovative talents.
Aiming at independent capacity building, it is necessary to respond to the needs of the times. The cultivation of top-notch innovative talents is the top priority to support China's high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance. To cope with future challenges, the independent capacity building of top-notch innovative talent training requires not only digital intelligence literacy and the ability to use AI, but also strong interdisciplinary learning ability and lifelong learning ability. On the one hand, it is necessary to take the initiative to connect with the national strategy and the development needs of the times, accelerate the supply-side reform of the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents, and seek new breakthroughs in the new track and new field of higher education development in the new era. On the other hand, it is necessary to shape the new advantages of disciplines in serving the major national strategies and the major needs of regional economic and social development, continue to promote the construction of new engineering, new medicine, new agriculture and new liberal arts by strengthening the foundation of mathematics, physics and chemistry, consolidating the foundation of knowledge, shaping students' future-oriented knowledge and ability structure, and cultivating students' innovative practice and global competence.
Aiming at independent capacity building, it is necessary to pay attention to the coordination of innovation and practice. To measure the ability of self-cultivation of top-notch innovative talents, we should not only look at the quality and quantity of top-notch innovative talents, but also pay attention to the adaptability of top-notch innovative talents to serve national and regional economic and social development. The independent ability of the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents must be realized through innovative practice, so it is necessary to pay attention to improving the collaborative training of top-notch innovative talents. On the one hand, it is necessary to focus on promoting the strategy of strengthening the country with talents, accurately connect key areas, key industries and major projects of high-quality development, pay attention to the establishment of special zones for the integration of science and education with first-class departments, national scientific research institutions, science and technology leading enterprises, etc., create an innovative teaching platform for engineering practice, and promote the coordinated development of engineering training and innovative practice. On the other hand, it is necessary to optimize the training structure of high-level talents, promote the classified development of academic innovative talents and practical innovative talents, implement special training projects for master's and doctoral degrees, explore the order-based training model, and open up the whole chain of "selection-training-growth" of students, so as to comprehensively improve the innovation and practice collaboration ability of top-notch innovative talents.
Cultivating talents is the foundation of the country. In the face of increasingly fierce competition in comprehensive national strength and science and technology, colleges and universities have an unshirkable responsibility. It is necessary to focus on grasping the goals and tasks of talent training, follow the growth law of top-notch innovative talents, strengthen the forward-looking and systematic training of top-notch innovative talents, build a talent training matrix, and continue to provide reserve forces for the training of major national strategies.
The author is an associate professor and deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office of East China Normal University
China Education Daily, 2024-03-07, 2nd edition
Author: Zhang Yanhong.