China Issues Guidelines to Integrate Education, Science, and Talent Mechanisms

People's Daily reported that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued opinions on developing new quality productive forces. The directive explicitly plans integrated institutional reforms across education, science, and talent, deploying key tasks such as encouraging enterprises and universities to conduct joint, customized talent training to build collaborative development mechanisms. To optimize collaborative training frameworks, guidelines suggest dynamically optimizing academic disciplines to match development directions. Policies support universities and leading tech enterprises co-building joint laboratories and integration communities, bringing skilled enterprise talent into higher education classrooms so students cultivate practical innovation abilities during research tasks. Regional initiatives illustrate mechanisms for cross-sector personnel mobility. In Zhejiang, more than 1700 university teachers have entered enterprises as science and technology vice presidents, while over 900 corporate experts have joined universities as industry professors, establishing collaborative loops for technical tackling and talent development. At the national level, the Ministry of Education alongside institutions like the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering launched a joint project. Across multiple disciplines, the initiative rolls out personnel exchanges, joint student training, shared scientific research, and resource pooling to connect national strategic science forces with higher education.