Translation: The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council have issued the “Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Ph.D. Education.”
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 20th - Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Doctoral Education" (referred to as the "Opinions" below), making systematic arrangements for the continuous deepening of comprehensive reforms in doctoral education.
"The Opinion" points out that doctoral education is the highest level of national education and a key support of the national innovation system. To accelerate the high-quality development of doctoral education, it is necessary to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, uphold moral education, serve the needs, reform and innovate, and open up and integrate. It is essential to promote the coordinated expansion of scale and construction of connotations, build a Chinese-characteristic, world-class doctoral education system, accelerate the establishment of world-class doctoral education centers, targeted train national strategic talents and urgently needed talents, and provide strong support for building a world-class talent center and innovation highland, achieving self-reliance in high-level science and technology, and fully constructing a socialist modern powerful country.
The "Opinions" pointed out that it is necessary to improve the discipline and specialty system, strengthen the forward-looking layout of national strategic talent training. Optimize the layout of disciplines and specialties, perfect the mechanism for setting up, developing, and adjusting disciplines and specialties that can timely respond to national needs, strengthen the establishment of degree-awarding units for disciplines in science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, basic disciplines, emerging disciplines, and interdisciplinary disciplines, increase the proportion of doctoral degree-awarding units, accelerate the construction of key disciplines, and enhance the development of interdisciplinary disciplines. It is necessary to reshape the elements of the training process and comprehensively improve the quality of self-directed talent training. Strengthen ideological and political guidance, reform the enrollment management model, optimize the training process, strengthen diversion and multi-path selection, explore the establishment of a classification development and innovative mechanism for academic degrees and professional degrees, improve the evaluation system, build a high-level team of mentors, and deepen international exchange and cooperation in innovation. It is necessary to reconstruct collaborative mechanisms and enhance the ability to train top-notch innovative talents. Stimulate the vitality of the integration of science and education, activate the synergy between production and education, empower regional innovation and development, promote the organic connection of the education chain, talent chain, industry chain, and innovation chain.
"The Opinion" emphasizes the need to optimize resource allocation and strengthen overall leadership. It calls for increasing investment in doctoral education and establishing a sound and stable support mechanism. It also supports pilot reform initiatives in areas and training units that are ready, promoting trial reforms in a classified and phased manner.
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