In order to improve the ability of higher education to serve the economic and social development, the Education Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region focused on the key industrial chains of the autonomous region, and intensified the optimization and adjustment of the professional layout of colleges and universities. In 2021, 258 professional posts were added to colleges and universities in the whole region, and 206 were cancelled, including 19 new undergraduate colleges and 20 cancelled; There are 239 new vocational colleges and 186 abolished ones.
It is reported that since 2021, the Education Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has guided colleges and universities to closely focus on serving the needs of national and regional economic and social development and industrial upgrading for talents, and improve the dynamic adjustment mechanism of majors with industrial development. In the adjustment of specialty layout, we should persist in adding, upgrading, transforming and eliminating a batch of specialties, and build a group of specialties that effectively serve the regional economic and social development and conform to the orientation of running a school, so as to avoid homogenization competition and escape sequence caused by excessive repeated setting of specialties, and timely merge and merge the specialties with oversupply, low employment rate and disappearance of professional posts.
In this adjustment of professional distribution, the Education Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has expanded the number of professional distribution serving key industrial chains such as green agricultural and livestock products processing, new energy, new materials and digital economy in the autonomous region. For example, intelligent agriculture, energy chemical engineering, digital economy, rehabilitation of traditional Chinese medicine and other specialties have been added in undergraduate colleges, and green food production technology, new energy equipment technology, new energy automobile technology, intelligent networked automobile technology, intelligent metallurgical technology of steel, photovoltaic material preparation technology, photovoltaic engineering technology, intelligent welding technology, aircraft airborne equipment assembly and debugging technology, rural e-commerce, intelligent health care service and management and other specialties have been added in higher vocational colleges, covering nine key industrial chains of the autonomous region.
In the next step, the Education Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region will take serving the major strategic needs of the country and the autonomous region as the guide, arrange and deploy the education chain closely following the key industrial chains of the autonomous region, deepen the reform of discipline and specialty system in colleges and universities, further improve and perfect the normalization monitoring mechanism of disciplines and specialties, and further improve the dynamic adjustment and layout optimization of disciplines and specialties by setting up a talent demand forecasting and early warning system, building a linkage mechanism for enrollment and employment training, and deepening the integration of production and education with school-enterprise cooperation, so as to continuously improve the transformation and upgrading ability of key industries in the autonomous region served by higher education.