【 Li Xiang China 】 Fully leverage the leading role of higher education

If education prospers, the country will prosper, and if education is strong, the country will be strong. Accelerate the modernization of education, cultivate the foundation of people's happiness with the power of education, consolidate the foundation of national prosperity with the strength of education, and provide strong support for the comprehensive promotion of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Building a strong education country, the leader is higher education. The author believes that universities are an important combination of technology as the primary productive force, talent as the primary resource, and innovation as the primary driving force. They should play a leading role in the new journey of building an education strong country.

To become the main battlefield for cultivating top-notch innovative talents. In today's world, the core of competition for comprehensive national strength is talent competition. As the main battlefield for talent cultivation, universities must first answer the question of "for whom to cultivate people, what kind of people to cultivate, and how to cultivate people". To educate people for the Party and talents for the country.Firmly cultivate talents independently. Deeply implement the "Strong Foundation Plan" and "Basic Discipline Top Student Training Plan 2.0", strengthen the construction of a high-quality graduate education system, provide a good environment for the independent cultivation of top innovative talents, and build the world's major scientific center and innovation highland as soon as possible; Gathering global talent resources. Accelerate the construction of a new pattern of all-round and wide-ranging education opening up to the outside world, adhere to the "global perspective" for talent introduction, improve the all-round introduction mechanism of high-level talents for global discovery, precise introduction, key training and scientific development, strengthen the attraction to excellent international students, continue to improve the internationalization level of universities, help China become a world important education center with strong influence, and dispatch and use global human resources to serve Chinese path to modernization.

To become the source of major technological breakthroughs. The world today is experiencing unprecedented changes, and technological innovation is a key variable. In breaking through the bottleneck problem, there is not enough significant original research in universities, and the total amount and quality of scientific and technological achievements transformation are still insufficient. Facing the future, we need to accelerate the realization of high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and help China seize the commanding heights in the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. Embrace the greatness of the country. Taking serving the national strategic needs as the highest pursuit, focusing on serving the new development pattern and high-quality development as the main direction, taking undertaking major national scientific and technological tasks as the mission responsibility, enhancing the ability of universities to undertake major national strategic tasks, focusing on key areas for organized scientific research, and playing a key role in solving the urgent "bottleneck" problems of the country; Adhere to the "four orientations". Truly calm down and think about what the forefront of technology is, where the main battlefield of the economy is, what major national needs are, and what the people lack. From the "small logic" of self development to the "big demand" of the Chinese land, form a development pattern of higher education that is coordinated with economic and social development; Strengthen basic research. Further optimize the layout of "Double First Class" disciplines, implement the "Strong Foundation Plan" and "Mount Everest Plan for Basic Research in Higher Education Institutions", and promote significant original breakthroughs in basic research.

To become a pioneer in comprehensive education reform. Currently, China's comprehensive reform in the education sector has entered a critical and challenging stage. Universities should deepen the implementation of a new round of comprehensive higher education reform, play a pioneering, exemplary, and breakthrough role in the national education comprehensive reform, and lead the overall development of basic education, vocational education, and other areas. Accelerate the reform of educational evaluation. Accelerate the establishment of a talent evaluation system guided by innovation value, ability, and contribution, promote basic cutting-edge research to highlight originality orientation, social public welfare research to highlight demand orientation, application technology development and achievement transformation evaluation to highlight market orientation, form a new education evaluation mechanism that adapts to the new era and promotes school reform and development, and guide and motivate teachers to become "masters" who focus on scientific research and education; Accelerate the reform of university governance system. Comprehensively promote the rule of law in running schools and governing schools in accordance with the law, take a higher quality, more dynamic, and more efficient connotative development path, strive to solve the contradictions in the "deep-water zone" of reform, coordinate the reform of education models, education methods, management systems, and guarantee mechanisms, improve the systematic, holistic, and collaborative nature of the reform, and continuously improve the modernization level of the governance system and governance capacity; Accelerate the digital transformation of education. Seize the opportunity of digitalization in education, layout ahead, promote at a high level, accelerate the construction of high-quality artificial intelligence models in education, open up a new track of "artificial intelligence+education", and promote the construction of a learning society through digitalization in education.

To become a pioneer in building modern civilization of the Chinese nation. From the perspective of human development history, world-class universities have always played a leading and fundamental role in cultural innovation and civilization progress. While transmitting knowledge, universities should also shoulder the historical mission of cultural inheritance and innovation, integrating excellent traditional Chinese culture into the entire process of talent cultivation. Inheriting and innovating excellent culture. Focusing on the construction of China's independent knowledge system, in accelerating the construction of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics, we must firmly uphold the cultural stance of the Chinese nation, strengthen research and interpretation, continue to promote major cultural research achievements, and continuously promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture; Guide the progress of social civilization. Strengthen cultural confidence and self-improvement, focus on strengthening education on socialist core values, leverage the functions of universities in popularizing science and culture, cultivating humanistic literacy, and become participants, builders, promoters, and leaders of modern Chinese civilization, and promote the construction of a socialist cultural power; Promote cultural exchange between China and foreign countries. Rooted in China and facing the world, we aim to create a number of cultural cooperation brand projects with Chinese characteristics and international influence, cultivate students' equal, respectful, open, and inclusive international perspectives, enhance their sense of mission in building a community with a shared future for mankind, tell the story of China well, and spread the voice of China.