It is a professional title in the higher education system. Most of them refer to senior teachers and researchers who teach in universities or community colleges, but there is a difference between professors and researchers. Professors have teaching tasks, but researchers don't.

The word "professor" in Chinese comes from the meaning of "preaching and teaching to solve doubts", which is the name of academic officials in ancient China, and this position was set up in universities in the Han and Tang Dynasties in China. It has nothing to do with English. Japanese and China people call teachers "professors" in universities.

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The titles of teachers in colleges and universities are professor, associate professor, lecturer and assistant lecturer in turn.

With the needs of social development, it is necessary to separate the level evaluation of professional and technical personnel from the employment position, that is, the separation of evaluation and employment, and the concept of professional title has changed accordingly. The appointment post is called "professional and technical post", referred to as post for short; The level of professional and technical personnel is determined by "professional and technical post qualification", which is referred to as professional title.