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Why is higher education itself in urgent need of reform?
Chapter VII Higher Education

(eighteen) improve the quality of higher education. Higher education undertakes the important task of cultivating senior professionals, developing science and technology culture and promoting socialist modernization. Improving quality is the core task of the development of higher education and the basic requirement of building a powerful country in higher education. By 2020, the structure of higher education will be more reasonable, with more distinctive features, the overall level of personnel training, scientific research and social services will be comprehensively improved, and a number of internationally renowned, distinctive and high-level institutions of higher learning will be built, and several universities will reach or approach the level of world-class universities, and the international competitiveness of higher education will be significantly enhanced.

(nineteen) to improve the quality of personnel training. Firmly establish the central position of personnel training in the work of colleges and universities, and strive to cultivate high-quality professionals and top-notch innovative talents with persistent beliefs, excellent moral character, rich knowledge and excellent skills. Increase investment in teaching. Take teaching as the primary content of teacher assessment and professor as an important system to teach junior students. Strengthen the basic construction of laboratories, practice bases inside and outside the school, course materials and so on. Deepen the teaching reform. Promote and improve the credit system, implement flexible academic system, and promote the integration of arts and sciences. Support students to participate in scientific research and strengthen practical teaching. Strengthen employment and entrepreneurship education and employment guidance services. Establish a new mechanism for joint training of talents among universities, research institutes, industries and enterprises. Fully implement the "Undergraduate Teaching Quality and Teaching Reform Project". Strict teaching management. Improve the teaching quality guarantee system and improve the teaching evaluation in colleges and universities. Fully mobilize students' learning enthusiasm and initiative, encourage students to study hard, enhance their sense of integrity, and develop a good style of study.

Vigorously promote the reform of postgraduate training mechanism. Establish a tutor responsibility system and a tutor project funding system based on scientific and engineering technology research, and implement the "double tutor system" in Industry-University-Research to jointly train graduate students. Implement the "Graduate Education Innovation Plan". Strengthen management and continuously improve the quality of postgraduate education, especially doctoral education.

(twenty) improve the level of scientific research. Give full play to the important role of universities in the national innovation system, and encourage universities to make contributions to knowledge innovation, technological innovation, national defense science and technology innovation and regional innovation. Vigorously carry out natural science, technical science, philosophy and social science research. Adhere to the goal of serving the country and encouraging free exploration, and strengthen basic research; Focus on major practical problems and strengthen applied research. Promote the sharing of scientific and technological education resources among universities, research institutes and enterprises, promote the innovative organizational model of universities, and cultivate interdisciplinary teams that combine scientific research with teaching. Promote the interaction between scientific research and teaching, and combine it with the cultivation of innovative talents. Give full play to the role of graduate students in scientific research. Strengthen the construction of key scientific research and innovation bases and scientific and technological innovation platforms in colleges and universities. Improve the innovation and quality-oriented scientific research evaluation mechanism. Actively participate in Marxist theoretical research and construction projects. In-depth implementation of the "prosperity plan for philosophy and social sciences in colleges and universities".

(twenty-one) to enhance the ability of social services. Colleges and universities should firmly establish the consciousness of actively serving the society and carry out all-round services. Promote the combination of Industry-University-Research's use, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and standardize the development of school-run industries. Provide continuing education services for members of society. Popularize science and improve the scientific and humanistic quality of the public. Actively promote cultural communication, carry forward excellent traditional culture and develop advanced culture. Actively participate in decision-making consultation, actively carry out forward-looking and countermeasure research, and give full play to the role of think tanks and think tanks. Encourage teachers and students to carry out voluntary service.

(twenty-two) optimize the structure and make it unique. Adapt to the needs of national and regional economic and social development, establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism and continuously optimize the structure of higher education. Optimize disciplines, types and hierarchical structures to promote interdisciplinary integration. Efforts will be made to expand the scale of training applied, compound and skilled talents. Accelerate the development of professional degree postgraduate education. Optimize the regional layout structure. Set up special funds to support local higher education and implement the revitalization plan of higher education in the central and western regions. The new enrollment plan is inclined to the areas where higher education resources are scarce in the central and western regions, expanding the enrollment scale of eastern universities in the central and western regions, and increasing the counterpart support of eastern universities to western universities. Encourage the development of higher education in the eastern region. Establish and improve the military-civilian integration and integration of defense and civilian technologies's military personnel training system.

Promote colleges and universities to run their own characteristics. Establish a classification system for colleges and universities and implement classified management. Give full play to the role of policy guidance and resource allocation, guide the rational orientation of colleges and universities, overcome the tendency of homogenization, form their own school-running ideas and styles, and create characteristics at different levels and in different fields to strive for first-class.

Accelerate the construction of first-class universities and first-class disciplines. Based on the construction of key disciplines, we will continue to implement the "985 Project" and the construction of innovation platforms for dominant disciplines, and continue to implement the "2 1 1 project" to start key disciplines with characteristics. Improve management mode, introduce competition mechanism, implement performance appraisal and conduct dynamic management. Encourage the school's dominant disciplines to face the world, support participation in and establishment of international academic cooperation organizations and international science programs, and support the establishment of joint research and development bases with overseas high-level educational and scientific research institutions. Accelerate the pace of establishing world-class universities and high-level universities, train a number of top-notch innovative talents, form a number of world-class disciplines, and produce a number of internationally leading original achievements, thus contributing to enhancing China's comprehensive national strength.