Higher education is an important support and power source for social development, and social development cannot be separated from higher education.
1. Higher education trains talents and provides human resources for social development.
In the era of knowledge economy, knowledge and technology have become the decisive factors of economic development. Economy becomes knowledge economy and technology economy, and knowledge becomes knowledge with economic value. As laborers in this era, it is hard to imagine that people can participate in economic activities without armed knowledge and technology and systematic specialized skills training. Therefore, higher education plays an important role in cultivating talents needed for social development. A large number of high-quality workers trained by higher education are crucial to social development; Higher education plays an important role in building a lifelong education system, implementing continuing education, building a learning society, a learning region and a learning city. Higher education plays a unique role in creating new knowledge and building a social innovation system.
2. Higher education serves science and technology and promotes the rapid development of society.
China is taking a road of "promoting industrialization by informationization and promoting informationization by industrialization". High technology content, good economic benefits, low resource consumption and less environmental pollution are the only way for the development of new industrialization. Higher education has become the leading force of this new road to industrialization. From a global perspective, setting up high-tech industrial parks in areas where universities are concentrated and vigorously developing high-tech production are magic weapons for many countries to take off their economies, such as Stanford Science Industrial Park (Silicon Valley) in the United States, Boston Industrial Park, Tsukuba Science City in Japan and Daejeon Science City in South Korea. As a talent training center, a scientific research center and a cultural communication center, higher education has unique advantages in developing new social industries. In recent years, the scientific research forces in colleges and universities pay attention to the combination of scientific research and social needs, and the transformation of scientific research achievements into production technology is increasing year by year, constantly opening up new industries for the society; The development of emerging industries has promoted the new development of professional fields. With the further development of the employment system in higher education, students' employment has changed from "employment-oriented" to "entrepreneurship-oriented", opening up new professional posts and reducing the pressure of social employment. Colleges and universities indirectly transform science and technology into productive forces through technical consultation and services, patents, proprietary technology transfer and other forms; Through the establishment of high-tech enterprises, forms are directly transformed into productive forces, which has effectively promoted social progress.
3. Higher education promotes social and cultural construction.
The profound cultural background, learning atmosphere and value orientation of higher education have a strong radiation effect on society. The culture spread by higher education is a deep-seated spiritual culture, a culture at the core of ideas and concepts, which has a profound and lasting impact on society. The communication culture of higher education has the function of cultural integration, which spreads the essence of a culture with different characteristics. The cultural communication of higher education is different from accidental and individual cultural communication. In the process of communication, there is constant communication and stable and long-term contact between the disseminator and the disseminator. Therefore, higher education has a profound, comprehensive and lasting impact on social culture. In a sense, higher education has become the creative center of modern culture and the forerunner of social and cultural construction.
Higher education has become a powerful driving force for social sustainable development.
1998 10 10 On 5 October, UNESCO held the first World Conference on Higher Education in Paris, and published the "2 1 Century World Declaration on Higher Education: Prospects and Actions". The first sentence of Article 1 of the Declaration reads: "We reiterate that the basic mission and important role of higher education should be maintained, strengthened and further expanded, especially the mission of promoting the sustainable development and progress of the whole society." Education is an important part of sustainable development, and it is also a key factor to implement the strategy of sustainable development. Because the subject of sustainable development is people, and people are all-round, and education is the main force to cultivate and shape this all-round development. "Without certain higher education and research institutions to provide the most basic skilled and educated talents, it is impossible for any country to ensure real sustainable development on its own; Developing countries and least developed countries are even less likely to narrow the gap with developed countries. " Higher education establishes the concept of sustainable development, and trains all kinds of higher professionals through education, so that they have the knowledge and ability to devote themselves to the strategy of promoting social sustainable development, become professionals, management talents and qualified citizens for social sustainable development, benefit future generations and promote social sustainable development. At the same time, higher education also provides people with various opportunities to receive education and lays a cultural foundation for the sustainable development of society.