Higher education in China has entered a recognized stage of popularization. On May 7th, 65438, the Ministry of Education held the second news conference of "Ten Years of Education" 1+ 1, focusing on the achievements made in the reform and development of China's higher education since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Yanwu, director of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education, said that China has built the largest higher education system in the world, with a total of more than 44.3 million students. The gross enrollment rate of higher education increased from 30% in 20 12 to 57.8% in 202 1 2, an increase of 27.8 percentage points, achieving a historic leap, and higher education entered a universally recognized stage.
Yanwu said that the population receiving higher education in China has reached 240 million, and the average years of education of the newly added labor force has reached 13.8 years. This means that the quality structure of China's labor force has undergone major changes, and the quality of the whole nation has steadily improved.
The demographic dividend has gradually changed to the talent dividend. China is a country with a large population and abundant human resources. China used to be in demographic window. The direct manifestation of this period is a large working population, which also means that labor costs are low, labor is cheap, and workers have no core competitiveness. Now, with the development of economy, the improvement of education and science and technology, there are more and more high-quality workers and skilled talents, and higher education institutions in China have provided considerable support in personnel training.
Now, the gross enrollment rate of higher education is increasing year by year, which means that China is changing from a big country with demographic dividend to a big country with talent dividend. It also means that in the job market, the labor costs of high-tech enterprises, service enterprises, financial industries and other enterprises that rely on talents will also be greatly reduced. This talent structure will attract more foreign high-tech enterprises to invest in China. Compared with foreign college students, China college students are much more cost-effective.
Conclusion The lowering of college threshold will also completely change the imprisonment of "poor people are hard to have children" in the past. In the future, everyone will have the opportunity to enjoy better educational resources, and educational equity will continue to expand to a higher breadth and depth. China's higher education will enter the stage of popularization, the quality of the whole people will be greatly improved, and China will formally change from a country with a large population to a country with talents.