China News Service, March 1 (Xinhua) The Ministry of Education held a press conference on March 1 to introduce the basic situation of the development of education nationwide in 2023.
At the meeting, Li Yingli, deputy director of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education, introduced that currently, the vocational education major catalog has a total of 1,394 majors, covering all fields of the national economy.
Li Yingli said that vocational education is the education most closely related to economic and social development, and bears the important responsibility of cultivating technical and skilled talents for regional economic and social development.
In 2023, there were 1,547 higher vocational colleges, an increase of 58 over the previous year, reflecting the enthusiasm of various regions to develop vocational education. The enrollment was 5.5507 million, an increase of 160,900 over the previous year, and the number of full-time teachers was 684,600, an increase of 40,900 over the previous year. Thousands of people.
In recent years, the Ministry of Education has accelerated the reform of the modern vocational education system, built a development pattern with deep integration of industry and education, guided and promoted vocational schools to focus on key areas, actively integrated into regional economic and social development, and provided skilled talent support to promote emerging industrialization.
First, carry out pilot projects for a new model of provincial modern vocational education system construction to promote the effective integration of vocational education into regional economic development.
In 2023, the Ministry of Education will adopt the form of ministerial-provincial consultation to establish a coordinated promotion mechanism between ministries and provinces to consolidate the main responsibility of provincial governments to lead and develop vocational education. "One province, one policy" will work with Tianjin, Guangxi, Shandong, Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Eight provinces, Zhejiang, Chongqing and Hunan, jointly promote the development of vocational education.
The enthusiasm and enthusiasm for developing vocational education in various places have been greatly mobilized, and the level of serving local economic and social development has been significantly improved.
The second is to build a municipal industry-education consortium to enhance the closeness between vocational education and local economy and society.
According to the characteristics of vocational education serving the local economy, innovate the effective docking model of industry and education resources, move down one level to prefecture-level cities with high industrial level and strong demand for skilled talents by enterprises, and build a municipal industry-education consortium based on industrial parks. Establish a council with the participation of governments, enterprises, schools, scientific research institutions, etc., and implement physical operations.
The third is to create an industry-education integration community to enhance the matching between vocational education and industrial development.
The Ministry of Education supports CRRC to take the lead in building a national rail transit equipment industry industry-education integration community. It will sink to the industry and compare the major technological breakthroughs and skilled talent needs of enterprises to carry out "unveiling the list and taking the lead" to cultivate "people who can succeed and use it". "Online and inseparable" skills and talents began to play a role.
Currently, the Ministry of Education is developing leading industries such as high-end CNC machine tools, shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment as national priorities to create a cross-regional industry-education integration community to cultivate students with sufficient quantity, reasonable structure and excellent quality to build a strong manufacturing country and promote new industrialization. of high-quality skilled personnel.
The fourth is to closely follow the industrial development trend and expand the professional layout of manufacturing industry.
At present, the vocational education major catalog has a total of 1,394 majors, covering all fields of the national economy, including 515 manufacturing-related majors, accounting for 37%.
In 2023, more than 6,500 vocational schools across the country will offer about 52,000 manufacturing-related professional points, and the scale of professional points will further expand compared with 2022.
The Ministry of Education focuses on the development trend of high-end, intelligent, and green manufacturing, and gives priority to adding new majors in advanced manufacturing every year. In 2023, majors such as high-speed railway communication technology will be added, improving the ability of vocational education to serve the manufacturing industry.
The fifth is to serve the development of the digital economy and enhance the ability to cultivate digital talents.
In 2023, more than 6,000 vocational schools across the country will offer digital economy-related majors, with more than 25,000 majors.
Based on the needs of industrial development, the Ministry of Education has systematically promoted the upgrading of 363 traditional majors such as accounting and hotel management, added 314 new majors in the digital economy field such as intelligent connected automobile technology, and developed relevant courses and teaching materials to provide high-quality teaching for the cultivation of digital talents. Resource security.