(Interview between the two sessions) Shang Xunwu, member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee: Colleges and universities in western China are often in a dilemma, hoping for policy favoring education
Chinanews.com, Beijing, March 8 (Shi Jingjing) How to accelerate the construction of "double first-class" normal universities in the western region and cultivate and encourage high-level talents to work in western universities. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, vice chairman of the Gansu Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and the Democratic Progressive Gansu One of the proposals brought by the committee chairman Shang Xunwu this year.
"The imbalance and inadequacy of the construction of'double first-class' universities in western universities is prominent." During the National Two Sessions, Shang Xunwu said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com that the low level of local economic and social development and the investment in funding policies affect the development of normal universities in the west. The common difficulties faced.
He proposed to introduce policies to stabilize and encourage high-level talents to work in universities in the west, increase the national talent plan to favor universities in the west, or set up a special plan for talents in the west.
Shang Xunwu learned from the survey that among the five western provinces and regions, there are 5 first-class universities, accounting for 11.9% nationwide; 8 first-class discipline-building universities, accounting for 8.4% nationwide; 27 first-class disciplines nationwide The corresponding proportion is 5.8%.
Among the normal universities in the western region, only Shaanxi Normal University has entered the first-class discipline construction university, and its first-class discipline is Chinese language and literature.
The picture shows Shang Xunwu participating in the National Two Sessions.
(Data map) Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Shang Xunwu gave an example. Northwest Normal University was renamed and renamed as the National Peking Normal University. Until the 1980s, Northwest Normal University had the strongest teachers, the most complete disciplines, and the greatest influence in the Northwest and even the West. One of the normal universities.
However, due to the restriction and influence of the educational resource allocation model, especially the level of local economic development, compared with the national “double first-class” universities, especially the high-level eastern normal universities, Northwest Normal University is faced with insufficient funding and high-level education. Development difficulties such as insufficient talent introduction and training policies.
In this regard, Shang Xunwu hopes that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, when the country promotes the development of normal colleges and universities, it should take overall consideration of the unbalanced and inadequate development of the western region and realize the actual needs of outstanding educational talents for rural revitalization, and provide classified guidance and enhancement With great support, we will focus on supporting a group of qualified normal colleges and universities to accelerate the pace of "double first-class" construction.
For example, in the new round of "double first-class" construction dynamic adjustment, support Northwest Normal University and others to enter the ranks of national "double first-class" construction universities.
The key is to implement rural revitalization talents. The key to vigorously developing rural education lies in improving the quality of education and teaching, and the key to improving the quality of education and teaching lies in teachers.
Shang Xunwu found that colleges and universities in the west still have difficulties in attracting talents and training mechanisms.
He suggested that the national talent plan should be more inclined to western universities or set up a special plan for western talents; a compensation mechanism for the loss of high-level talents in the western region should be established as soon as possible to guide and support the flow of high-level talents to western provincial universities.
"In addition, the national level has formulated corresponding special plans to further favor the western provincial universities in the construction of high-level teaching and research platforms, the allocation of degree points and doctoral enrollment indicators, so as to provide more and better executive entrepreneurship platforms for high-level talents in the western region. . In the National Discipline Appraisal Team and Teaching Steering Committee, we will increase the number of seats for western universities to ensure the right to speak in the academic field of western universities," said Shang Xunwu.
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