China's research in this technical field is also relatively early, but it is relatively late to enter the university classroom as a professional education. This is also an important reason why China is short of reserve talents in this field and has a gap with other countries.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the people's political power was faced with a situation in which everything was in ruins, and the socialist economic construction needed advanced production technology. Therefore, with the support of the Party and the state, a number of schools such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Beijing Institute of Technology have established relevant professional education and technical research institutes.
After the reform and opening up, automation education has made great progress in the face of the fourth wave of new scientific and technological revolution. In addition to colleges and universities that have established related majors, a large number of colleges and universities such as Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Southeast University and Nanjing University have added this major. According to statistics, more than 90% colleges and universities in China have set up automation education. Because of its wide applicability and the wide demand of society for this professional talent, it has been favored by more and more people. Ordinary colleges and universities recruit 200-300 talents every year, and some colleges and universities even have more. The educational level varies from junior college, undergraduate course to master's degree and doctor's degree, forming a stepped talent training and education model. In recent years, many famous professors and experts have emerged in this field, and the teaching staff has been greatly enhanced. For example, Professor Wu Cheng from the Department of Automation of Tsinghua University has made great achievements in system integration technology, and professors Chen, Leng, Yang Jiaben, Yang Shiyuan and Xiao Deyun have made great achievements in their respective research fields. Professor Wu of Tongji University has long been engaged in the research of modern control theory and application. Research on the theory and application of automation system engineering, computer integrated manufacturing system and intelligent automation system. The Department of Automatic Control and the Institute of Automation of Southeast University have high-level academic leaders headed by Qian and Feng Chunbai, two academicians of China Academy of Sciences. These outstanding scholars and experts have made outstanding contributions to the development of high technology in China in the new period.
Looking forward to the new century, with the rise of the information revolution and the impact of the new economy, automation education will surely receive more attention from all countries in the world, because this technology has gradually developed from office automation and industrial automation to home automation, which is inseparable from the daily life of ordinary people, and further development is inevitable.
After China entered the 1990s, with the enlivening of the socialist market economy and the deepening of the policy of opening to the outside world, the demand for automation professionals has been expanding day by day, which has been in short supply for several years (in recent years, the supply-demand ratio of graduates of this major has been stronger than 1: 10). With some large foreign enterprises entering the domestic market, some well-known domestic enterprises will also go to the world, so the competition for high-tech talents will become increasingly fierce.