[Guangming Review] Consolidate the talent foundation for the development of new productive forces

Author: Fu Jiadi (Director of the Research Center for Grassroots Governance of the Communist Party of China at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law)

Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Developing New Productivity Productivity", which lists "deepening the innovation of talent work mechanisms" as one of the five major innovation directions to promote the development of new quality productivity. It clearly proposes to cultivate talents urgently needed for the development of new quality productivity and improve talent utilization and mobility policies. In today's era, talent is the primary resource, technology is the primary productive force, and innovation is the primary driving force. Only by promoting the development of educational science and technology talents in an integrated manner can we fully unleash the innovation and creativity vitality of talents and lay a solid talent foundation for new-quality productive forces.

The distinctive feature of new productivity is innovation, which includes innovation at the technology and business model levels, as well as innovation at the management and institutional levels. We must continue to do a good job in the big article of innovation and promote the accelerated development of new productive forces. Talent is the basic element of innovation and development. Whether it is technology competition, enterprise competition, or comprehensive national strength competition, it is ultimately a competition for talents. Cultivating scientific and innovative talents is a strategic move to consolidate the foundation for the development of new productive forces, achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, and promote high-quality economic development.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country's basic research and original innovation have been continuously strengthened, some key core technologies have achieved major breakthroughs, the vitality of innovation entities and talents has been further released, and my country has successfully entered the ranks of innovative countries. However, there are still problems such as innovation capabilities not adapting to the requirements of high-quality development, and the situation that some key core technologies are controlled by others has not fundamentally changed.

In recent years, our country has carried out a large number of practical explorations around deepening the innovation of talent work mechanisms. These explorations are of great strategic significance for improving the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system and promoting Chinese-style modernization. Optimize the supply of talent cultivation based on national strategic needs, improve the adjustment mechanism of disciplines and majors and talent training models driven by scientific and technological development and national strategic needs, and build interdisciplinary platforms that integrate scientific research and talent training such as the School of Excellent Engineers, the School of Future Technology, and the School of Modern Industry, and continue to improve the quality of training outstanding engineers. Coordinate the layout of key laboratories, concept verification centers, pilot platforms and other carriers to give full play to the role of new R&D institutions. The "15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Human Resources and Social Security" proposes to "support and encourage scientific research personnel from scientific research institutes and universities to carry out scientific and technological innovation and transformation of scientific and technological achievements in enterprises in accordance with regulations", which is conducive to smoothing the paths for talent empowerment industries and achievement transformation, and continuously releasing the vitality of talent innovation.

Facing the new development pattern and the rapid rise of new quality productive forces, talent supply is facing new challenges. The digital transformation of traditional industries, the cultivation and expansion of strategic emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries all require a large number of digital talents who understand the logic of technology and are familiar with industry operations, and can use intelligent tools and organize collaborative innovation. Only by deepening the innovation of the talent work mechanism can we focus on all aspects of the entire chain of cultivating talents, attracting talents, and utilizing talents, and promote the deep integration of the talent chain with the innovation chain, industrial chain, and capital chain. We must focus on deepening the innovation of talent work mechanisms, promote educational development, technological innovation, and talent training in an integrated manner, and continue to transform institutional advantages into innovation and development advantages.

Improve the talent coordination and coordination mechanism. Improve the cross-department coordination mechanism for the integrated development of educational science and technology talents, strengthen planning connection, resource coordination, and evaluation linkage, and clean up fragmented policies. Closely follow the key industrial chains to coordinate the deployment of talent cultivation, introduction and employment measures, and open up the closed loop of talent cultivation through education, talent development through science and technology, and talent utilization through industry. Optimize the dynamic adjustment mechanism of disciplines and majors, keep a close eye on emerging interdisciplinary disciplines in the future industrial layout, regularly publish a catalog of majors urgently needed for economic and social development, and provide policy guidance and construction guidance for discipline adjustment.

Optimize the talent growth and development mechanism. Accelerate the construction of strategic talent, coordinate the construction of strategic scientists, leading scientific and technological talents, young scientific and technological talents, outstanding engineers, and high-skilled talents, and increase the scale of training outstanding engineers. Support the growth of young scientific and technological talents, increase support for young scientific and technological talents in talent plans and scientific research projects, and provide long-term and stable support for talents to carry out basic research. Improve the full-cycle tracking service for talents, build a strong talent development platform carrier, and cultivate fertile soil for talent growth.

Improve the education mechanism integrating industry and education. Support leading enterprises and universities to jointly build industrial colleges in depth, integrate real enterprise projects and production scenarios into the teaching system, and achieve seamless connection between talent training and industrial needs. Deepen the reform of engineering master's and doctoral training, improve the school-enterprise dual tutor system, form an industry-education integration model of "enterprises set questions, schools and enterprises jointly answer, and market scores", and explore practical results to participate in degree evaluation.

Deepen the reform of talent classification evaluation. Deepen the classification evaluation of talents and establish a talent evaluation system oriented by innovation ability, quality, effectiveness and contribution. Implement long-term evaluation of basic research and encourage scientific researchers to sit on the bench. For applied research and technology development talents, evaluation is guided by technological breakthroughs and industrial contributions. Incorporate technology transfer and industrial service performance into the scope of professional title review and talent project identification, and smooth the evaluation and promotion channels for technical managers.

Improve the talent incentive and fault tolerance mechanism. Deepen the reform of empowering job scientific and technological achievements, optimize the income distribution mechanism, and fully reflect the market value of knowledge, technology, and talents. We will ensure talent service guarantees, focus on practical concerns such as housing, medical care, and children's education, and strive to solve pain points and difficult problems. Accelerate the efficient transformation and application of major scientific and technological achievements, and lay out the construction of concept verification and pilot verification platforms. Establish and improve a fault-tolerant mechanism, encourage innovation, support responsibility, tolerate failure, and provide trial and error space for scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation activities.

Developing new productive forces is not only a process of technological iteration and industrial upgrading, but also a process of innovation in talent work mechanisms. It is necessary to continue to deepen the integrated reform of education, science and technology, and talents, break down the ideological concepts and institutional barriers that constrain the development of talents, fully stimulate the endogenous motivation and innovative vitality of talents, and inject a steady stream of new momentum into high-quality development.