Deepening the integration of production and education to help science and technology stand on its own two feet.
Science and technology are the foundation of national prosperity, and innovation is the soul of national progress. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee put forward that "innovation should be the core of China’s overall modernization drive, self-reliance and self-reliance in science and technology should be the strategic support for national development, and the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talents, and innovation-driven development should be implemented in depth, so as to improve the national innovation system and accelerate the construction of a strong country through science and technology", and to strengthen the national strategic scientific and technological strength, enhance the technological innovation capability of enterprises and stimulate talent innovation. This is a major strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core at a new historical height and starting from the overall strategic situation, which is of great and far-reaching significance.
In this context, further deepening the integration of production and education, and promoting the organic connection between education chain, talent chain and industrial chain, and innovation chain are the inevitable requirements and pragmatic measures to improve the national and regional innovation system and promote the self-reliance of science and technology.
The integration of production and education is an innovative form, which can break through the barrier between education and industry, connect the first productive force of science and technology, the first resource of talents and the first driving force of innovation, effectively gather innovative elements of all parties, effectively enhance the ability and effectiveness of scientific and technological innovation, help science and technology to stand on its own feet, and further highlight the core position and leading role of innovation.
Realistically, China has a complete industrial system, strong industrial supporting capacity, and the largest higher education system in the world, but industry and education are still in their own way. There is a lack of benign interaction between industry and education, and the pattern of integrated development has not yet formed. There are "two skins" on the supply side of talent training and the demand side of high-quality industrial development to varying degrees. These problems restrict the ability and level of self-reliance and self-improvement of science and technology, and it is urgent to further deepen the integration of production and education, optimize the allocation of resources, stimulate the kinetic energy of innovation, and provide the source of innovation for realizing self-reliance and self-improvement of science and technology.
To deepen the integration of production and education and improve the quality of innovation
To achieve self-reliance in science and technology, we should not only emphasize the ability of independent innovation, but also emphasize the improvement of innovation quality. It is necessary to put scientific and technological innovation in a more prominent position, take the actual major demand as the traction, deepen the integration of production and education as the starting point, take the reform of system and mechanism as the core, strengthen the integration, integration and fusion of various innovation elements, and strive to achieve more major breakthroughs from 0 to 1.
On the one hand, it is necessary to enhance the innovation ability of colleges and universities. Colleges and universities should seize the opportunity of accelerating the construction of world-class universities and first-class disciplines, promote the cross-integration of basic disciplines and applied disciplines as a whole, support the construction of disciplines that meet the needs of the development of regional traditional advantageous industries, advanced manufacturing industries and strategic emerging industries, strengthen the guidance of the development of innovation ability of colleges and universities, promote the close connection between the innovation supply side of colleges and universities and the demand side of industrial development, build an institutional mechanism for the diversified collaborative innovation of colleges and universities with industries, industries and enterprises, and continuously improve the ability of original innovation, basic innovation, integrated innovation and collaborative innovation.
On the other hand, we should give full play to the role of innovation subject of enterprises. It is necessary to guide enterprises to make full use of the preferential policies related to the integration of production and education through the market mechanism, actively participate in scientific research and technology research and development in colleges and universities, provide the source and element support for scientific research and innovation in colleges and universities, and strive to turn scientific research resources in colleges and universities into fertile land for technological innovation in enterprises. In particular, high-tech enterprises should serve the country and take a long-term view, and joint universities should speed up the breakthrough of key core technology bottlenecks and strive to solve the technical problem of "sticking their necks".
At the same time, we should promote Industry-University-Research’s deep integration. Deploy innovation chain around the industrial chain, guide universities, industries, enterprises and scientific research institutions to form an alliance of integration of production and education, build a science park with integration of production and education, create a space for innovation, and build a pilot base, build a service platform to promote the docking of supply and demand information of production and education, promote the deep integration and integrated development of Industry-University-Research, promote the timely transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, form a complete chain of basic research, application development, achievement transfer and industrialization, and provide assistance for promoting the upgrading of industrial base and the modernization of industrial chain.
Deepening the integration of production and education and accelerating collaborative education
Talent is the most active and positive factor in innovation activities, and it is inseparable from talent support to achieve self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology. It is necessary to accurately grasp the new requirements for the cultivation of innovative talents when higher education enters the popularization stage, and integrate the concept of integration of production and education into the whole process of talent cultivation.
First, we must strengthen the strength of the scientific and technological team. Colleges and universities have more than 60% high-level talents and more than 40% academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. They should make good use of this precious resource, vigorously carry forward the spirit of scientists, focus on important disciplines, innovative directions, and major industrial development needs, implement the system of "revealing the list and taking the lead" in major scientific research projects, increase the introduction and cultivation of strategic scientific and technological talents, leading scientific and technological talents and innovative teams, build a new highland where innovative talents at home and abroad can gather, and provide talent guarantee for scientific and technological self-reliance.
The second is to strengthen the cultivation of innovative talents. Guided by the needs of economic and social development, we should grasp the new requirements of the new development pattern for personnel training, deepen the structural reform of the supply side of human resources, improve the dynamic adjustment mechanism of professional and industrial development in colleges and universities, build a professional system that closely connects with the industrial chain and innovation chain, improve the top-notch personnel training system of basic disciplines, and optimize the level and type structure of personnel training.
The third is to build a long-term mechanism for school-enterprise cooperation. The key is to fully mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of enterprises to participate in the integration of production and education, strengthen policy guidance, encourage the first attempt, improve the integration of production and education, the collaborative education mechanism between schools and enterprises, deepen the reform of education and teaching and the innovation of training mechanism, and promote the docking of supply and demand and process reengineering by means of professional co-operation, textbook co-editing, teacher co-education, platform co-construction and resource sharing, so as to jointly cultivate high-quality workers and innovative talents.
Strengthen system governance by deepening the integration of production and education
The integration of production and education is a process of multi-subject resource allocation and reconstruction. It is necessary to innovate the integration mechanism of production and education with systematic concept, deepen the reform of science and technology system, and form an innovative community of mutual benefit.
In terms of organizational promotion, we will make overall plans to promote the pilot projects of cities, industries and enterprises with integration of production and education, strengthen the role of cities in carrying capacity, industry aggregation and enterprises in classification, and build distinctive pilot projects and regional innovation systems for integration of production and education. All localities need to strengthen the organization and leadership of the integration of production and education, adjust and optimize the layout of higher education according to the needs of economic and social development, accelerate the development of new research universities, improve the science and technology planning system, major project management model and sustained and stable investment mechanism, clarify the functional orientation of innovative subjects such as universities, enterprises and scientific research institutions in the regional innovation system, and make overall arrangements for basic research and key core technology research.
In terms of integration and sharing, it is necessary to improve the modern school management system and modern enterprise system, follow the market mechanism and the law of value, innovate the organizational form and operation mechanism, promote the deep integration of resources, personnel, technology, management and culture, realize the docking of "needs" and "capabilities", form an ecological system of two-way interaction and integrated transformation between "production" and "education", and expand the breadth and depth of the integration of production and education.
In terms of incentive evaluation, all localities should continue to deepen the "streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services" reform, create a first-class business environment and innovative ecology, and comprehensively use fiscal, taxation, investment, finance, land, price and other incentive policies to benefit enterprises, universities and other participants in the integration of production and education; Education authorities need to improve the performance evaluation system of colleges and universities and guide them to actively participate in the integration of production and education; Colleges and universities should reform and improve the teacher classification assessment system, take scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation as an important basis for talent evaluation, job title evaluation, achievement award and income distribution, and fully stimulate and release the innovative potential of scientific and technological talents.
(The author is a special researcher at the Theoretical System Research Center of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, Fujian Province)









































