A degree is an academic title that marks that the educational level and academic level of the grantee have reached the prescribed standards, and it is divided into three levels: bachelor, master and doctor. "Postdoctoral" refers to the doctoral degree winner who is allowed to enter the post-doctoral research mobile station to engage in scientific research. This is not a degree. It is a misunderstanding of China's degree system to regard postdoctoral doctors as higher degrees than doctors.
According to the Academic Degrees Regulations of People's Republic of China (PRC), bachelor's degrees are awarded by institutions of higher learning authorized by the State Council, and master's degrees and doctoral degrees are awarded by institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions authorized by the State Council.
Education and education cannot be equated. A degree is an academic title, and a degree is a learning experience. Having a degree does not necessarily mean having a corresponding degree; Similarly, having a certain degree does not necessarily mean having a corresponding degree. For example, those who have obtained master's or doctor's degree certificates do not necessarily have master's or doctor's degree diplomas; Those who have obtained the undergraduate diploma may not be able to obtain the bachelor's degree certificate.
Those who have only obtained a degree certificate but have not obtained the corresponding academic certificate shall still have their original academic qualifications.
There are also differences between on-the-job personnel applying for a degree and on-the-job postgraduate education. On-the-job personnel applying for a degree is not academic education, but has a degree but no academic qualifications. Although on-the-job graduate students are on-the-job, their enrollment, admission methods and training programs are the same as those of full-time graduate students, which belongs to academic education.
The bachelor's degree is awarded by institutions of higher learning authorized by the State Council, and the master's degree and doctor's degree are awarded by institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions authorized by the State Council. Undergraduate graduates of institutions of higher learning who have achieved excellent results and reached the prescribed academic level are awarded bachelor's degrees; Postgraduates in institutions of higher learning and scientific research, or persons with the same academic ability as postgraduates, pass the course examination and thesis defense for master's (doctoral) degree and reach the required academic level, and are awarded master's (doctoral) degrees. Institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions that confer academic degrees shall, after academic degree evaluation committee has made a resolution on conferring academic degrees, issue corresponding degree certificates to degree winners.
Outstanding scholars or famous social activists at home and abroad may be awarded honorary doctorates upon nomination by the degree-conferring unit and approval by the the State Council Academic Degrees Committee.