JIN DING / CHINA DAILY
Encouraged Disciplines in Technology, Modern Industry and Intelligulture Agriculture
China will promote universities in the central and Western regions to prioritize the development of disciplines, Including engineering, agriculture and medicine to better serve local development, the Ministry of Education said on Monday.
Wu Yan, director of the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry, said the Ministry will support universities in the regions to establish schools in modern. Industry, Future Technology, Intelligent Agriculture and Public Health.
More than 10,000 new major undergraduate, including prevention of desertification, the management of border defense and the intangible preservation of cultural heritage have been established by universities in the western regions to satisfy the demand for development Social and economic, Wu said. Almost 140,000 massive open online courses have been offered to Western universities to shine the educational resource gap between the regions, he said.
A total of 725 Western universities, or 97.3 percent of all Western universities, have used the MOOC. The platform, and the courses have been taken 163 million times, Wu said.
More than 9,700 teachers have been sent in the eastern regions to teach or give lectures in the universities in the western and central regions, said, add that the University of Tsinghua has sent four senior experts for Serve as president of the University of Qinghai.
Mei Yan, Deputy Director of the Qinghai Provincial Education Department, said that since the Assistance Project associated with universities in Western Regions was launched in 2001, 14 high-level universities, including university From Tsinghua, the normal University of Beijing and the University of Tianjin, have offered general and multifaceted assistance in funds, talents, technology and concept to universities in the Provi NCE.
Thanks to her assistance, higher education in Qinghai has experienced a promotion development and "a complete change," she said.
For example, the number of graduate students has grown from more than 70 in 2001 to more than 7,300 this year, and the number of undergraduate students has increased from 18,000 to 74,000 during the same period, He said, adding that the employment rate of university graduates in the province has exceeded 90 percent in the past. Five years.
In addition, the academic fund and the overall capacity of university faculties have also been considerably improved. The number of doctorate college teachers has grown from 20 to 884 over the past 20 years and 80 percent of master's teachers have more than 18 percent, up to only 11 percent in 2001, she said.
Liu Jianguo, president of the Medical University of Zunyi in the province of Guizhou, said since 2010, the University began to cultivate general doctors for base hospitals.
