"The school vigorously promotes the construction of emerging majors, promotes the transformation and upgrading of traditional majors, and adds new majors such as energy storage science and engineering, synthetic biology, energy chemistry, financial technology, art and technology. In 2024, the school has 42 enrollment majors that are highly related to the "Top Ten Industry", accounting for 65.63%. " Recently, Luo Xiliang, vice president of Qingdao University of Science and Technology, told reporters.

  In recent years, Shandong Province has thoroughly implemented the national deployment on higher education reform and employment priority strategy, guided by serving the needs of economic and social development, vigorously optimized and adjusted the discipline and professional structure, deepened the integration of industry and education, promoted the precise docking of talent training and industrial needs, and effectively promoted high-quality employment of college graduates.

  "Industrial upgrading has created the demand for major optimization." Liang Libo, director of the College Students Department of Shandong Provincial Department of Education, introduced, "As a major economic province, Shandong is accelerating the transformation of new and old kinetic energy, focusing on the development of the 'top ten industries'. In 2024, Shandong Province's GDP reached 9.86 trillion yuan, and the output value of high-tech industries accounted for more than 52%, and the demand for high-quality technical and skilled talents has increased sharply. There is a large gap in talent in the fields of integrated circuits, industrial Internet, artificial intelligence, etc., and some colleges and universities have lagged behind the development of industrial technology. The adaptability of people and jobs needs to be improved, and structural contradictions still need to be resolved."

  In order to solve the problem of supply and demand matching, the Shandong Provincial Department of Education, in conjunction with the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security and other departments, issued the "Implementation Plan for the Adjustment and Optimization of the Discipline and Major Settings of General Higher Education in Shandong Province" in 2023, adhering to the "four aspects", promoting universities to actively connect with the major national strategic needs of the Yellow River and the construction tasks of Shandong Province's green, low-carbon, and high-quality development pilot zones, deepen the supply-side reform of subjects and majors, comprehensively improve the quality of independent talent training, and build a high-quality higher education system.

  "In recent years, Shandong has focused on building a discipline setting adjustment mechanism and talent training model driven by scientific and technological development and national strategic needs, and continuously improve the compatibility between talent training and economic and social development needs." Zeng Xianwen, director of the Higher Education Department of the Shandong Provincial Department of Education, introduced, "In 2025, Shandong will optimize and adjust about 20% of the disciplines and majors in universities, and set up a new batch of disciplines and majors that are adapted to new technologies, new industries, new business forms and new models, and eliminate disciplines and majors that are not suitable for economic and social development."

  In 2024, more than 80% of the new doctoral programs in Shandong are urgently needed disciplines and majors in the "Top Ten industries", more than 80% of the new master's programs are professional degree sites that support the industry's industrial development, and more than 80% of the new undergraduate programs in the past three years are urgently needed and scarce majors in society. "3 80%" effectively optimizes the discipline and major structure.

  Taking Shandong University as an example, the school upgraded and optimized its professional structure, cultivated and added 19 strategic emerging majors, concentrated resources to build 47 micro-professions, and formed a "excellent and new" high-quality undergraduate major system.

  Through talent demand forecast analysis, we will regularly update and release the list of urgently needed disciplines and majors to guide development and encourage the development of undergraduate majors. Shandong will continue to improve the mechanism for setting and adjustment of disciplines and majors this year and build a discipline and professional system that matches the national strategy and economic and social development needs.

  "Next, we will further deepen the practice of educational reform that is oriented towards industrial demand and centered on student development, strengthen supply and demand adaptation, integrate resource advantages, improve service quality and efficiency, accelerate the construction of a high-quality employment service system for college graduates, and strive to promote high-quality and full employment of college graduates." Zhang Zhigang, deputy director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Education, said. (Reporter Wei Haizheng Correspondent Wei Xiaolong Pan Yanli)

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