On December 7, the General Office of the Ministry of Education and four other departments on accelerating the construction of new agricultural science and technology to promote the innovative development of higher agricultural and forestry education.
In terms of focusing on improving the quality of students in agriculture and forestry majors, the "Opinions" mentioned: Encourage cooperation between schools and local governments, explore and promote the training plan for targeted talent in agricultural majors, and implement the pilot reform of "enterprise and posts for graduation". When allocating national scholarships for undergraduate and junior college students, appropriate preference will be given to universities mainly in agriculture and forestry majors.
In terms of vigorously promoting the training of scarce majors in agriculture and forestry, the "Opinions" pointed out that supports universities with conditions to add scarce majors in key areas such as food security, ecological civilization, smart agriculture, nutrition and health, and rural development.
The following is the original text of the "Opinions"↓
Education departments of provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government (Education Commission), Agriculture and Rural (Agriculture and Animal Husbandry) Departments (Bureau, Committee), Forestry and Grassland Administration Departments, Rural Revitalization Bureau , Education Bureau of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps , Agriculture and Rural Revitalization Bureau, relevant universities under the Ministry and the Ministry and the Provincial Government jointly build relevant universities:
Comprehensively promote rural revitalization and realize the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, the key lies in science and technology and talents. In order to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important reply to the secretaries, presidents and expert representatives of agricultural universities across the country and the spirit of the important speech during his inspection of Tsinghua University, and accelerate the construction of new agricultural science and technology, promote the innovative development of higher agricultural and forestry education, and better support and serve the construction of a strong agricultural country, the following opinions are put forward.
1. Comprehensively strengthen education on knowing and loving agriculture. regards General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on the “three rural issues” as an important part of teaching and educating people in agricultural colleges and universities, integrate them into classroom teaching, run through all aspects of talent training, and guide students to learn agriculture and love agriculture for agriculture. Strengthen and improve farming education, include relevant courses in Talent Training Program , as a compulsory course for students in agricultural disciplines, strengthen the construction of general education curriculum systems for agricultural and forestry characteristics such as "Great Country, Rural Affairs, Rural China", "Farming and Reading China", promote the excellent traditional culture of farming and reading, and give full play to the comprehensive educational functions of farming and reading education, such as moral cultivation, intelligence, physical education, and aesthetics.
2. Vigorously promote the training of scarce professional talents in agriculture and forestry. optimizes the structure of agricultural disciplines and majors, promotes the supply-side reform of agricultural and forestry education, accelerates the adjustment, optimization, upgrading and new construction of majors, and enhances the forward-looking, adaptable and targeted nature of disciplines and major settings. Serving the development of modern agriculture, integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands, strengthening the cross-integration of disciplines, and supporting universities with conditions to add scarce majors in key areas such as food security, ecological civilization, smart agriculture, nutrition and health, and rural development. Serving the development of new industries and new business formats such as green and low-carbon, multi-functional agriculture, ecological restoration, forest health care, wetland protection, and human settlement environment governance, and lay out the construction of a number of emerging agricultural-related majors.
3. Accelerate the construction of a multi-type agricultural and forestry talent training system. In-depth implementation of Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talent Education and Training Plan . Actively connect with the new requirements for innovative development of agriculture and forestry, implement the training plan for top agricultural and forestry talents, focus on undergraduate agricultural and forestry advantageous disciplines, such as animal and plant production, forestry, and other undergraduate agricultural and forestry advantageous disciplines and majors, rely on high-level agricultural and forestry colleges, and jointly explore the integrated training of undergraduate, master and doctoral students in science and education, and cultivate a group of high-level, high-level, and international innovative agricultural and forestry talents. Actively connect with the new requirements of the integrated development of the first, second and third industries in rural and forest areas and the industrial development of the industry, and strive to strengthen the cultivation of students' practical ability and cultivate a group of highly adaptable and high-quality compound agricultural and forestry talents. Actively connect with the new requirements of rural talent revitalization , and the school-local linkage strives to improve students' production skills and management capabilities, and cultivate a group of applied agricultural and forestry talents who love agriculture, understand technology, and are good at management.
4. Focus on improving the quality of students in agriculture and forestry majors. increases publicity efforts and attracts high-quality students to apply for agricultural majors. biological breeding will be included in basic discipline enrollment reform pilot , and disciplines and majors related to biological breeding and agricultural and forestry intelligent equipment will be included in the scope of support for relevant special plans. Encourage cooperation between schools and local governments, explore and promote the training plan for targeted talents in agricultural majors, and implement the pilot reform of "enterprise with posts and graduation with posts". When allocating national scholarships for undergraduate and junior college students, appropriate preference will be given to universities mainly in agriculture and forestry majors.
5. Deeply promote curriculum teaching reform. is based on the progress of agricultural science and technology and the development needs of the agricultural and forestry industry, and is guided by the talent training goals, optimizes the teaching content and curriculum system, builds a batch of first-class core courses by major, strives to promote the construction of new curriculum that reflects the cross-integration of disciplines, strengthens the construction of practical courses, and promptly integrates the cutting-edge achievements in the development of agricultural and forestry science and technology into the teaching content, and creates a "two genders and one degree" agricultural and forestry golden course. Build a new model of digital agricultural and forestry education, vigorously promote the deep integration of agricultural and forestry education and teaching with modern information technology, carry out in-depth online and offline hybrid teaching , implement various teaching methods such as seminar, inquiry, and participatory to promote students' independent learning, and strive to improve students' ability to discover and solve problems. Improve the course assessment and evaluation system, establish a diversified assessment and evaluation system, focus on the organic combination of process assessment and result assessment, comprehensively apply various forms such as written tests and non-standardized answer tests, and strive to cultivate students' innovative consciousness and innovation ability.
6. Continuously strengthen the construction and management of textbooks. creates a batch of high-quality national planning textbooks, develops a batch of first-class core textbooks, and accelerates the construction of emerging agricultural-related professional textbooks and new forms of textbooks. Agricultural universities are encouraged to combine their respective disciplines with the advantages of their respective disciplines to organize well-known experts, scholars, and academic leading talents with high political qualities, deep professional attainments and rich teaching experience to edit or participate in the editing of excellent textbooks, reflecting new knowledge, new technologies and new achievements in the agricultural and forestry discipline industry, reflecting new trends in agricultural and forestry education and teaching reform, and enhancing the ideological, scientific, cutting-edge and practical nature of the textbooks. We will effectively implement the main responsibility for selecting textbooks in colleges and universities, strictly review textbooks, and prevent outdated, low-level repetition, and simple pieces of textbooks into the classroom.
7. Build a high-level practical teaching base. builds a number of comprehensive shared practical teaching bases, integrates and optimizes practical teaching resources, systematically builds a high-quality practical teaching platform for agricultural and forestry colleges, and creates a number of core practical projects. Relying on platforms such as germplasm resource library (spring), agricultural science and technology parks, modern agricultural industry science and technology innovation centers, forestry and grassland industry demonstration zones, we will build a number of new agricultural and forestry science and education practical teaching bases, and take talent training as an important part of the construction and evaluation of the platform on which the base relies on, and give full play to the comprehensive educational function of the base. Build a number of farming and reading education practice bases, support agricultural universities to expand and enrich teaching places based on agricultural cultural heritage sites, natural cultural heritage sites, agricultural parks, national parks, beautiful and livable villages and other social resources, and strengthen farming and reading practical teaching.
8. Build a high-level teaching staff. Strengthen the construction of teachers' ideological and political qualities and teachers' ethics and style, take teachers' ethics and style as the first criterion for evaluating the quality of the teaching team, and accelerate the construction of a number of high-quality core teaching teams. Promote the construction of teaching development centers for teachers in agricultural colleges and universities, carry out regular training on improving the education and teaching ability of agricultural and forestry teachers, strictly implement the system of holding teacher qualification certificates, and strengthen pre-job training for new teachers. Strengthen the construction of grassroots teaching organizations in various forms such as teaching and research departments and teaching teams, and support the construction of a number of national and regional virtual teaching and research departments. Increase the construction of "dual-teacher" teachers, support agricultural universities to select teachers to train (part-time) in agricultural and forestry enterprises, select and recruit front-line experts from scientific research institutes and enterprises to serve as part-time teachers or tutors, and strengthen the construction of the " dual-teacher " structural teaching team.
9. Strengthen the collaborative education of agricultural science and education. innovates the mechanism of collaborative education integration and science and education integration, actively promotes all-round cooperation between one agricultural and forestry university in one province and the provincial Academic (Forestry) Academy of Sciences, and improves the collaborative education model of "one province, one school, one college". Aiming at the needs of the development of the agricultural and forestry regional industries, focusing on applied universities, we will support the construction of a number of modern agricultural and forestry industrial colleges. Aiming at key core technologies in key agricultural and forestry fields and cutting-edge innovative technologies that lead future industrial development, we will support high-level agricultural colleges and universities to build a number of national industry-education integration innovation platforms and Future Technology College in the fields of biological breeding, so as to realize the transformation of high-quality resources in the industry into educational resources, give full play to the educational function of the scientific and technological innovation platform, and support the cultivation of innovative talents with high-level scientific research.
10. Strengthen the research and development of key core technologies. further improves the layout of scientific and technological innovation platforms such as cutting-edge science centers, ministerial key laboratories and engineering research centers in agricultural and forestry related fields in agricultural colleges and universities. Give full play to the role of the main force in basic research in universities and the new force in major scientific and technological breakthroughs, carry out key core technology research in the fields of biological breeding, key agricultural and forestry machinery and equipment, arable land quality and agricultural water conservation, pest control, smart agricultural and forestry technology, strive to achieve major original innovation breakthrough results, promote the improvement of the level of transformation and industrialization of agricultural scientific and technological achievements, and achieve high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in agricultural science and technology.
1. Deepen openness and cooperation to the outside world. Strengthen in-depth cooperation with world-class universities, research institutions and international organizations, introduce high-quality foreign educational resources, run Sino-foreign cooperative education and other educational cooperation projects, and promote the discipline construction of agricultural universities and the cultivation of international high-level talents. Deeply integrate into the construction of "Belt and Road", "South-South Cooperation", "China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone", etc., build a number of international agricultural (forestry) education research centers and international joint laboratories, actively participate in the research and formulation of international standards, norms, guidelines in the agricultural (forestry) industry related fields, carry out modern agricultural (forestry) industry foreign aid training work, and enhance my country's international influence and voice in the agricultural (forestry) field.
12. Innovate the evaluation mechanism. regards cultivating new talents for knowing agriculture and loving agriculture and serving the effectiveness of agricultural and rural modernization as an important part of testing the school management level of agricultural and forestry colleges, improve the school's internal quality assurance system, and accelerate the construction of a quality supervision system led by education administrative department and jointly participated by industry administrative departments, academic organizations and social institutions, and promote the all-round development of students. Accelerate the third-level certification of undergraduate agriculture and forestry majors that ensure qualifications, improve their level and pursue excellence, and gradually achieve full coverage of agricultural and forestry major certification. With talent cultivation, scientific and technological innovation, and application of achievements as the core, we will improve teachers' evaluation methods, guide teachers to devote themselves to educating people and insist on writing papers on the land of the motherland. Adhere to classified evaluation, encourage universities with conditions to set up science and technology promotion positions, set corresponding evaluation standards based on the characteristics of the job, and open up channels for professional title promotion.
13. Increase policy support. coordinates the joint construction of the department and the joint construction of the ministry and the provincial government, and further increases support for agricultural and forestry colleges. The quota arrangements for recommended postgraduate students who are exempt from examinations for high-level agricultural and forestry institutions will be coordinated and supported. Actively play the guiding and incentive role of fiscal investment, and establish and improve a diversified and sustainable funding guarantee mechanism for agricultural and forestry education. The central government further improves the budget appropriation system of central universities and continues to support the development of agricultural and forestry majors and agricultural and forestry colleges. The agricultural and forestry department has increased its efforts to coordinate project funds and actively supported the development of agricultural and forestry universities. All localities should strengthen coordination and support for policies and funds, coordinate local financial higher education funds and central government funds to support the reform and development of local universities, and actively support the construction of new agricultural science.
14. Strengthen organizational implementation. All relevant universities should regard the construction of new agricultural science as an important task for deepening the comprehensive reform and development of schools, incorporate it into the school’s medium- and long-term development plan, formulate specific measures, and promote the innovative development of agricultural and forestry education. Provincial-level education, agriculture and rural areas, forestry and grassland, rural revitalization and other administrative departments should regard the construction of new agricultural science as an important basic project for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and jointly solve the problems faced by the innovative development of agricultural and forestry education.
General Office of the Ministry of Education General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Office of the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau Comprehensive Department of the State Rural Revitalization Bureau
November 23, 2022
Source: Ministry of Education website
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