In February, the 24th meeting of the Commission for Deepening Overall Reform of the CPC Central Committee deliberated and adopted the Opinions on Strengthening the Training of Talents in Basic Disciplines, and the second round of "double first-class" construction universities and the list of construction disciplines were announced. In August, the Ministry of Education issued Several Opinions on Strengthening Organized Scientific Research in Colleges and Universities to Promote High-level Self-Reliance and Self-improvement, making arrangements to promote colleges and universities to give full play to the advantages of the new national system, and make higher quality and greater contributions to serve the strategic needs of the country. In October, the Party's twenty-tenth report proposed to comprehensively improve the quality of talent independent training and focus on creating top-notch innovative talents.
The year 2022 has special significance in the new era and new journey. Higher education has made substantial contributions to the country's high-quality development by centering on the central work, focusing on the theme of development, and serving the two overall interests.
In February, the 24th meeting of the Commission for Deepening Overall Reform of the CPC Central Committee deliberated and adopted the Opinions on Strengthening the Training of Talents in Basic Disciplines, emphasizing that it is necessary to vigorously train a large number of basic research talents urgently needed for national innovation and development. The report to the Party's 20th National Congress generally explained the basic and strategic supporting position of education, science and technology, and talents, and proposed to open up new fields and new tracks for development, focus on cultivating top-notch innovative talents, strengthen the construction of basic disciplines, emerging disciplines, and interdisciplinary disciplines, and gather talents from all over the world.
In January 2022, the Ministry of Education clarified at the National Education Work Conference that higher education should support the national strategic needs with innovative development, thus determining the overall thinking and focus of higher education development throughout the year. And specifically focus on the strategy of strengthening the country by training talents to serve talents, supporting scientific and technological self-reliance with scientific research and innovation, adapting to the new development pattern with disciplinary professional structure, and supporting the layout of the world's important talent center and innovation highland with "double first-class" construction. On February 14, the Ministry of Education announced the second round of "double first-class" construction of universities and construction disciplines, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and other basic disciplines layout 59, engineering disciplines 180, philosophy and social science disciplines 92, highlighting the strategic orientation of strengthening basic theories and emerging science and technology fields, proposed to reduce identity. To truly world-class support the high level of national science and technology self-reliance. The "Several Opinions on Further Promoting the Construction of World-class Universities and first-class Disciplines" also makes it clear that the construction of universities and disciplines must bear in mind "two overall situations" and "the great of the country", and create a new model of world-class universities and first-class disciplines in solving China's problems and serving high-quality economic and social development. It highlights the key direction of training first-class talents, serving the strategic needs of the country, and striving for world class. In August, the Ministry of Education issued the "Several Opinions on Strengthening Organized Scientific Research in Colleges and Universities to Promote a High level of self-reliance", which made a comprehensive deployment of higher quality and greater contribution to serving the national strategic needs.
This is an era of innovation and development. In the past year, in the face of many challenges such as intensifying international competition, the advent of the digital age, repeated epidemics, and downward economic pressure, higher education has carried out rich practical exploration to serve the strategic needs of the country, and made extraordinary achievements in strengthening the training of high-level talents urgently needed by the country, focusing on supporting the self-reliance of high-level science and technology, and comprehensively improving the ability of education to serve regional development. In addition, in the past year, higher education focused on the reform of education methods and education models guided by evaluation reform, carried out multiple evaluations in accordance with the different laws of personnel training in basic research, engineering technology, and humanities and social sciences, promoted the reform of major project initiation and organizational management methods, and began to establish a talent evaluation system oriented by innovative value, ability, and contribution. Constantly explore and improve the classification development and classification evaluation model of colleges and universities.
More than 3,000 colleges and universities are distributed in the north and south of the motherland, and more than 10 million graduates enter the society in the past two years. Colleges and universities undertake more than 80% of the National Natural Science Foundation projects. This is the most basic background of higher education in our country. Facing the future, the role of higher education in serving the construction of a modern socialist country will be further enhanced, and the following issues need to be seriously considered.
In response to the trend, we should embrace the digital era with a positive attitude and promote a high level of openness. The promotion of the status of higher education is fundamentally from the need for innovation. A new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation will give birth to a new digital era. Only by integrating into the world can higher education stand at the forefront of science and technology to serve the realization of national strategic goals.
In terms of self-understanding, we should coordinate the unity of political theoretical philosophy and epistemological philosophy. Education, first of all, is a means to achieve social goals, which needs to achieve the state of "selflessness", but in order to better fulfill its organizational function, it must do a good job of "self" characteristics. Higher education should support national construction on the basis of following its own laws.
In practice, we should do a good job in educating people and running schools. Educating people and running schools are the eternal theme of colleges and universities, but The Times have endowed them with new characteristics. Education should fully implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, with the focus on putting morality first and ability first. Schools should persist in taking root in the Chinese soil to run universities, and pay attention to solving practical problems encountered in national development.
