China Issues Guidelines to Integrate Education, Technology, and Talent for Productive Forces

China News Service reported that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued guidelines on developing new quality productive forces, deploying an integrated reform across education, science, technology, and talent systems. To strengthen enterprise-led innovation, the document proposes creating enterprise research and development reserve systems, increasing expense deduction ratios, upgrading eligible projects into state initiatives, and allowing capable private firms to lead major technological breakthroughs. The guidelines also urge guiding higher education institutions and scientific research institutes to license technological achievements to small, medium, and micro enterprises under a use-first, pay-later approach to lower commercialization barriers. Regarding personnel evaluation, the directives call for decoupling researcher evaluations from project applications, published papers, and awarded titles, preventing remuneration and professional titles from being determined solely by official talent titles.