On the morning of 5 March, the Second Session of the 14 th National People's Congress (NPC) opened at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Wan Buyan, deputy to the National People's Congress, "model of the times", and director of the Marine Laboratory of Hunan University of Science and Technology, listened carefully to the work report on the spot, and truly felt the new achievements in economic and social development and the new breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation.
*The work report mentions that Wan Buyan is pleased and excited to formulate and implement the outline of the plan for the construction of a strong country in education, deepen the comprehensive reform of educational science and technology talents, optimize the layout of disciplines, specialties and resource structure, and enhance the strength of colleges and universities in the central and western regions.
Wan Buyan is very concerned about the cultivation of young scientific and technological talents and the high-quality development of higher education. Engaged in scientific research for more than 30 years, Wan Buyan dared to dare to try, and led the team to develop the "Manatee" series of submarine drilling rig systems, which refreshed the drilling depth record of submarine drilling rigs again and again, and realized the leap of China's submarine drilling rig technology and equipment from scratch and from backward to leading. At the same time, he insisted on the combination of theory and practice, moved the classroom to the sea, and cultivated a group of outstanding "first-class people" engaged in marine careers.
Last year, after being elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress, Wan Buyan submitted a proposal on speeding up the work of promoting educational science and technology talents in an integrated manner. The state and Hunan Province have also successively introduced a series of measures to strengthen the training and use of young scientific and technological talents, providing strong support for the cultivation of young scientific and technological talents.
Education is the foundation for the emergence of talented people and the forerunner of scientific and technological development, which has a bearing on the future and destiny of the country and the nation. Higher education is at the highest level in the education system, and it is an important combination point of science and technology as the first productive force, talent as the first resource, and innovation as the first driving force. This year, Wan Buyan focused on how to promote the high-quality development of higher education.
At present, China's higher education has ranked first in the world in terms of scale and annual graduation number, but there is still a certain gap between the quality of talent training and the ideal level and social expectations, and its "leading" role and ability to serve high-quality development are not enough.
In this regard, Wan Buyan suggested that we should be guided by the high-quality development of the economy and society, and build a discipline and specialty that is urgently needed for the national strategy and regional economic and social development. It is necessary to strengthen the linkage between the education system and industry departments, and promote the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, and talent chain. It is necessary to further promote the "quality revolution" of personnel training in colleges and universities, further carry forward the spirit of educators, strengthen the construction of the teaching force, improve the evaluation system of teachers in colleges and universities, and improve the level of teacher education.
Practice has proved that local universities can make great achievements in serving the national strategy. However, relatively speaking, there are "congenital deficiencies" such as insufficient funding and geographical restrictions. Therefore, Wan Buyan suggested that the total amount of financial allocation and per student funding for colleges and universities should be further increased, the overall allocation of higher education funds should be strengthened, and the gap between financial allocation funds between universities at different levels and in different regions should be continuously narrowed.