Since 2000, China's higher education has entered a period of rapid development, and the development of education has played an obvious role in pulling the final demand of catering, transportation and tourism, stationery manufacturing and printing, infrastructure and other related industries.

Only from the stationery industry, compared with 2000, the number of graduate students and undergraduates in China increased by 13057000 in 20 10. If the average annual stationery consumption per student is calculated as 100 yuan, freshmen can drive the output value of China's stationery industry to increase by13.057 million yuan.

Second, it is conducive to solving the employment problem.

Vigorously developing education, especially higher education, can delay the time for low-educated graduates to enter the labor market and play the role of "reservoir". In addition, the development of education has directly or indirectly created new employment opportunities.

Some outstanding college students started their own businesses after graduation, which not only solved their employment problems, but also provided more jobs for the society and absorbed a large number of labor.

Third, promote the economic and social development of China by improving the national quality.

Education can spread knowledge, improve people's vocational skills and comprehensive quality, improve the quantity and quality of work undertaken by workers, and thus improve productivity. From the perspective of production, the labor productivity of primary school graduates is 43% higher than that of workers who have not graduated from primary school;

Compared with workers who graduated from primary schools, the labor productivity of middle school graduates is high 1. 1 times; Compared with workers who graduated from middle school, the labor productivity of college graduates is three times higher.

Fourth, by accelerating scientific and technological progress, China's economic and social development will be promoted.

Education has improved the scientific and cultural level of the whole society, provided a broad foundation and guarantee for the growth of technical force, optimized the talent structure, disseminated scientific knowledge and transformed scientific knowledge into practical productive forces.

Extended data

The development degree and quality of higher education not only affect the whole educational cause, but also relate to the future of socialist modernization. "

In order to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, rapidly improve the overall level of China's human resources in the shortest time, and meet the growing needs of the broad masses of people for higher education,1At the beginning of 999, the State Council, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made a major decision to develop higher education in accordance with the strategic deployment of "rejuvenating the country through science and education".

Education provides high-quality labor for economic development. In the final analysis, the competition of modern economy is the competition of talents. Education can reproduce people's labor ability, increase the value of labor force, change the nature and form of people's labor ability, and make labor ability professional.

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