China News Service, May 17th. On the 17th, the Ministry of Education held a series of press conferences on the "Ten Years of Education" and "N+1".
Wu Yan, director of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education, introduced the achievements of the ten-year reform and development of higher education at the press conference, saying that my country's higher education has become stronger.
Through the "211", "985" projects and the "Double First-Class" construction plan, a number of universities and a large number of disciplines have reached the world's advanced level, and the overall level of China's higher education has entered the world's first phalanx.
Wu Yan said that my country has formed a Chinese paradigm for the development of MOOCs and online education.
We have held the China MOOC Conference and the World MOOC Conference successively, forming a set of Chinese paradigms for MOOC development including concepts, technologies, standards, methods, and evaluations.
As of the end of February 2022, the number of online MOOCs in my country has exceeded 52,500, with 370 million registered users, and more than 330 million college students have obtained MOOC credits, ranking first in the world in terms of both the number and application scale of MOOCs.
In March, we established the "National Higher Education Smart Education Platform" and initiated the establishment of the World MOOC and Online Education Alliance, which has become a key move and a key move to actively lead the future development of world higher education.
Innovation and entrepreneurship education leads the world.
Continuing to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, more than 30,000 specialized courses on innovation and entrepreneurship education and more than 11,000 online open courses have been offered in colleges and universities across the country, and 174,000 industry talents have been hired as full-time and part-time teachers of innovation and entrepreneurship. College students participated in the "National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program".
The 7th China International "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition has been successfully held, attracting 6.03 million teams and 25.33 million college students from more than 120 countries and regions on five continents. The competition has directly created 750,000 jobs and indirectly provided There are 5.16 million jobs, promoting the formation of a new concept of talent training and a new concept of quality.
The ability of higher education to serve the country has been significantly improved.
Higher education actively subordinates the "small logic" of its own development to the "big logic" of national economic and social development. The ability of colleges and universities to serve the country's major strategies has been continuously enhanced, and has won more than 60% of the three major national science and technology awards, and more than 60% of the country's basic research, More than 80% of the National Natural Science Foundation of China projects are undertaken by colleges and universities. Colleges and universities have provided key technologies for key fields such as high-speed rail, nuclear power, biological breeding, vaccine research and development, and national defense and military industry, and participated in the development of supercomputers, Beidou satellite navigation systems, Shenzhou series and other countries. It is a powerful tool to support and lead the construction of a cultural power, a talent power, a sports power, a healthy China, a beautiful China, and a safe China.