The new regulations of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security are clear： preparatory technicians are treated equally with undergraduate graduates.

　　CCTV News:Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for Technician Education" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), which is the first five-year plan for mechanic education of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. "Planning" for the first time made it clear that graduates of intermediate classes, advanced classes and preparatory technician (technician) classes in technical colleges should be treated according to the equivalent of secondary school, junior college and undergraduate education.

　　The annual training volume of technical schools in China is more than 5 million, but the number of middle and senior technicians is insufficient.

　　By the end of 2015, there were 2,545 technical colleges in China, including 434 technician colleges with 3.22 million students, and the employment rate reached 97.4%, and the employment rate of key colleges reached 100%. At the same time, actively carry out all kinds of vocational skills training for the society, with an annual training volume of more than 5 million people.

　　At present, the number of middle and senior technicians in China is insufficient, the gap is large, the overall structure of professional skilled personnel is not reasonable, and the distribution of high-skilled personnel in regions and industries is uneven, which makes some high-level and high-quality industrial designs only stay on perfect drawings. This not only restricts the development of individual enterprises, but also adversely affects the overall level of China’s manufacturing industry. More seriously, it even makes the rise of national industries lack a solid foundation.

　　The central government has repeatedly proposed to attach importance to the training of high-tech talents.

　　In March this year, Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China clearly stated in the government work report that it is necessary to "encourage enterprises to carry out personalized customization and flexible production, cultivate the craftsmanship of Excellence, increase varieties, improve quality and create brands."

　　On December 8th, this year, Ma Kai, Vice Premier of the State Council, pointed out that high-skilled talents are an important part of China’s talent team, the core backbone and outstanding representative of the workers’ team, an important force to innovate technical skills and create social wealth, and play an important role in promoting technological innovation, economic development and social progress.

　　Ma Kai emphasized that to implement the innovation-driven development strategy, implement Made in China 2025, promote economic upgrading, efficiency improvement and upgrading, and move towards the middle and high-end level, we must speed up the training of a skilled talent team with sufficient quantity, excellent quality and reasonable structure.

　　By the end of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", a modern mechanic education system will basically be formed.

　　The "Planning" clearly stated that by the end of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", a modern mechanic education system will basically be formed, in which the scale of running a school is suitable for market demand, the professional structure is suitable for industrial development, the integration of schools and enterprises runs through the process of running a school, the teaching reform realizes the combination of work and study, the internship and training are closely linked with jobs, the level and scale of skilled personnel training are more matched with economic and social development, and the social service function is more perfect.

　　The Plan puts forward six development goals.

　　"Planning" briefly summarizes the development status, existing problems and the situation faced by the national technical education, clarifies the guiding ideology of technical education during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, and emphasizes the fundamental requirements, development orientation, training core, school-running concept and development purpose. It puts forward the basic principles of overall planning, employment orientation, connotation development and cultivation of craftsman spirit, and six development goals of "more reasonable layout, more perfect functions, more standardized management, continuous improvement of quality, more distinctive features and more optimized environment".

　　The Plan puts forward corresponding measures for the six major goals.

　　① Coordinate the coordinated development of the eastern, central and western regions, optimize the structure of technical colleges, vigorously develop technical colleges, support the development of industrial enterprises and private colleges, and stabilize the scale of educational system.

　　② It is clear that technical education must serve employment and entrepreneurship, development of skilled personnel, poverty alleviation and strengthening international cooperation and exchanges.

　　(3) put forward requirements from the aspects of standardizing the internal management, academic system, student status, funding, supervision and evaluation of technical colleges.

　　④ Strengthen the construction of specialties, teaching materials, scientific research and teaching, teachers and information.

　　⑤ Adhere to the characteristics of school-enterprise cooperation, high-end training and standardized development.

　　⑥ Guide all localities and industries to increase their support for technical colleges and universities in terms of policies, funds, projects and publicity.

　　For the first time, the Plan clarifies that technical school graduates are treated equally with graduates with corresponding academic qualifications.

　　① Put forward 10 main development indexes of technical education for the first time;

　　(2) Put forward six development goals from different latitudes of the development of technical education, and put forward specific measures accordingly;

　　③ It is proposed that the cultivation of craftsman spirit should be regarded as the key teaching content in technical colleges and run through the whole process of technical education;

　　(4) Emphasis is placed on strengthening the management and service functions of the competent organizers of technical colleges for technical education, and on the main responsibility of the human and social departments in the process of implementing the planning;

　　⑤ Insist on high-end leading, put forward to vigorously develop technician colleges, implement high-end leading plan of mechanic education, and focus on cultivating artisans in big countries;

　　⑥ For the first time, it is clear that the graduates of intermediate class, advanced class and preparatory technician (technician) class in technical colleges should be treated according to the equivalent secondary school, junior college and undergraduate education;

　　⑦ Make it clear that technical colleges should implement funds according to the standards of vocational colleges at the same level;

　　(8) Implement the spirit of relevant central documents, and put forward specific requirements for poverty alleviation, international exchanges and cooperation, and textbook construction;

　　Pet-name ruby pays more attention to standardizing school running and management, and systematically puts forward normative requirements from five aspects for the first time;

　　Attending to pay more attention to basic work and put forward requirements for enrollment, professional construction, teaching and research reform, etc.