China establishes world's largest higher education system with 240 million college graduates

[beijingwalker]

China establishes world's largest higher education system with 240 million college graduates
By Global Times
Published: May 17, 2022 07:23 PM

China has established the world's largest higher education system with 240 million people having received higher education, the country's Ministry of Education (MOE) announced on a press conference on Tuesday.

The ministry introduced the achievements of China's higher education reform and development since the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress in 2012 at a press conference on Tuesday, noting that the total number of students in higher education at present is more than 44.3 million.

The enrollment rate to higher education increased from 30 percent in 2012 to 57.8 percent in 2021, an increase of 27.8 percentage points, which is a historic leap that marks higher education in China has entered the popularization stage recognized by the world, the ministry said.

A number of Chinese universities and a large number of disciplines have reached a very advanced level in the world.

The number of people who have received college education in China has reached 240 million, and the average length of education of the newly added labor force has reached 13.8 years. Higher education has provided a stepping stone for building the world's major talent center and innovation hub.

For ten years, more than 10,000 outstanding students have chosen basic disciplines, paving the way for independent talents and for the establishment of a solid foundation for building the world's most important source of talents and innovation hub.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, a total of 265 new majors have been included in the undergraduate program catalog. As a result, 17,000 new undergraduate programs were added, and talent training became more adaptable to new technologies, industries and forms of business.

"The Ministry of Education, relevant ministries and commissions, large enterprises and local governments have jointly built 151 new colleges and universities. Provincial and ministerial co-construction of local universities received a total of more than 100 billion yuan in funding during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, effectively improving the overall level of university construction and the ability to serve national and regional major strategic capabilities, according to the press conference.

Also, innovation and entrepreneurship education in China leads the world. Colleges and universities across the country have opened more than 30,000 specialized courses and 11,000 open online courses on innovation and entrepreneurship education, and hired 174,000 talents as full-time and part-time teachers on innovation and entrepreneurship.

China also has held seven times annual international college students' innovation contests, attracting 6.03 million teams, or 25.33 million college students from more than 120 countries and regions on five continents. The contests have directly created 750,000 jobs and indirectly provided 5.16 million jobs, promoting talent cultivation at the same time.

The capacity of colleges and universities to serve major national strategies has continued to increase, and they have won more than 60 percent of the national science and technology awards. The colleges also have undertaken more than 60 percent of the national basic research and more than 80 percent of the national natural science foundation projects.

Colleges and universities provide key technology for high-speed railway, nuclear power, biological breeding, vaccine development, national defense and other key areas, and actively participate in the development of super computers, the BeiDou satellite navigation system and the Shenzhou spacecraft series.

China establishes world's largest higher education system with 240 million college graduates - Global Times

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[beijingwalker]

China has more college graduates than most countries having people.

 

[bloom123ER]

thx for information

 

[tower9]

Pretty amazing that the enrollment rate is now 57%. Just 20 years ago, I think less then 5% of Chinese people had the opportunity to go to college.

 

[S10]

We also need to ensure 2 things:

1. Put focus on science and engineering degrees, rather than arts

2. Ensure good technical skills training (trades, mechanics, cooks, electricians etc) since not everyone could be scientists. There are lots of great roles that need to be filled in the job market without the need for 4 years degree. Need to move away from the mindset that if people aren't university graduates then they're not as good.

 

[letsrock]

We also need to ensure 2 things:

1. Put focus on science and engineering degrees, rather than arts

2. Ensure good technical skills training (trades, mechanics, cooks, electricians etc) since not everyone could be scientists. There are lots of great roles that need to be filled in the job market without the need for 4 years degree. Need to move away from the mindset that if people aren't university graduates then they're not as good.

Arts and socials are very important. These are the fields which decide what is good for society and what is bad and what is acceptable and what is not. If you neglect this field then others will set trends for you.

 

[S10]

Arts and socials are very important. These are the fields which decide what is good for society and what is bad and what is acceptable and what is not. If you neglect this field then others will set trends for you.

To a degree, but we don't need 5 gender identities and 10 sexual preferences dividing the population. I have yet to find a single useful person with background in gender studies or philosophy.

 

[Paul2]

Pretty amazing that the enrollment rate is now 57%. Just 20 years ago, I think less then 5% of Chinese people had the opportunity to go to college.

Middle class is the enemy of high class

2. Ensure good technical skills training (trades, mechanics, cooks, electricians etc) since not everyone could be scientists. There are lots of great roles that need to be filled in the job market without the need for 4 years degree. Need to move away from the mindset that if people aren't university graduates then they're not as good.

My 2 best engineers didn't even have a uni degree, but just 2 year technical college in Henan. One was a legend, preferring to work on paper when everybody was using CADs, he can make such stuff from plastic, and fibreglass with just guesswork which younger engineers need a week of FEM simulation for. He worked on everything, from making bathtubs, to payload faring in the space programme.

 

[Paul2]

We also need to ensure 2 things:

1. Put focus on science and engineering degrees, rather than arts

2. Ensure good technical skills training (trades, mechanics, cooks, electricians etc) since not everyone could be scientists. There are lots of great roles that need to be filled in the job market without the need for 4 years degree. Need to move away from the mindset that if people aren't university graduates then they're not as good.

We will run into trouble. You see there is a very visible historical tendency: too many elites + any major shock = revolution.


Qinghua/BeiDa grads almost never go to work in the government, let alone the CPC, despite a lot of them being children of CPC members. CPC sends its kids to America, or at least away from politics: they see no future.

I remember, in nineties, there was a real contest to get into the CPC, at least for poor rural people. Even if a real talent never been requirement, there was at least a need for some "wit," to get into the club. Now, CPC jobs are almost given away. Even during late Mao, CPC still was the real institute for somebody above the grade to go to, now it isn't.

It's an institute of negative selection, because talent, wit, initiative are considered dangerous, and now you have cities in the South where 60% of working men under 30 have education. Very dangerous (for CPC.)

CPC had an iron grip on the country when there were no elites (all been killed, or ran away,) and they simply had no other choice, but to "collaborate" with the bourgeois (in this case, just any valuable specialist,) and vice versa. Now if you have brains, you go to Tencent, and get more money in first 10 years of careers, than a career bureaucrat in the North can embezzle in a lifetime.

No wonder this makes for a lot of scorn. When witty, talented, and rich don't need the power, a state power can't deny them having it.

 

[Daniel808]

While in US of A land

 

[OIO]

China establishes world's largest higher education system with 240 million college graduates
By Global Times
Published: May 17, 2022 07:23 PM

China has established the world's largest higher education system with 240 million people having received higher education, the country's Ministry of Education (MOE) announced on a press conference on Tuesday.

The ministry introduced the achievements of China's higher education reform and development since the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress in 2012 at a press conference on Tuesday, noting that the total number of students in higher education at present is more than 44.3 million.

The enrollment rate to higher education increased from 30 percent in 2012 to 57.8 percent in 2021, an increase of 27.8 percentage points, which is a historic leap that marks higher education in China has entered the popularization stage recognized by the world, the ministry said.

A number of Chinese universities and a large number of disciplines have reached a very advanced level in the world.

The number of people who have received college education in China has reached 240 million, and the average length of education of the newly added labor force has reached 13.8 years. Higher education has provided a stepping stone for building the world's major talent center and innovation hub.

For ten years, more than 10,000 outstanding students have chosen basic disciplines, paving the way for independent talents and for the establishment of a solid foundation for building the world's most important source of talents and innovation hub.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, a total of 265 new majors have been included in the undergraduate program catalog. As a result, 17,000 new undergraduate programs were added, and talent training became more adaptable to new technologies, industries and forms of business.

"The Ministry of Education, relevant ministries and commissions, large enterprises and local governments have jointly built 151 new colleges and universities. Provincial and ministerial co-construction of local universities received a total of more than 100 billion yuan in funding during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, effectively improving the overall level of university construction and the ability to serve national and regional major strategic capabilities, according to the press conference.

Also, innovation and entrepreneurship education in China leads the world. Colleges and universities across the country have opened more than 30,000 specialized courses and 11,000 open online courses on innovation and entrepreneurship education, and hired 174,000 talents as full-time and part-time teachers on innovation and entrepreneurship.

China also has held seven times annual international college students' innovation contests, attracting 6.03 million teams, or 25.33 million college students from more than 120 countries and regions on five continents. The contests have directly created 750,000 jobs and indirectly provided 5.16 million jobs, promoting talent cultivation at the same time.

The capacity of colleges and universities to serve major national strategies has continued to increase, and they have won more than 60 percent of the national science and technology awards. The colleges also have undertaken more than 60 percent of the national basic research and more than 80 percent of the national natural science foundation projects.

Colleges and universities provide key technology for high-speed railway, nuclear power, biological breeding, vaccine development, national defense and other key areas, and actively participate in the development of super computers, the BeiDou satellite navigation system and the Shenzhou spacecraft series.

China establishes world's largest higher education system with 240 million college graduates - Global Times

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Education can't turn monkeys into human beings, too many liberal arts college students in China.