Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinion on Accelerating the Promotion of High-Quality Development in Doctoral Education" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinion"), making systematic arrangements for the continuous deepening of comprehensive reforms in doctoral education.

The document states that doctoral education is the highest level of national education and a crucial support for the national innovation system. To accelerate the high-quality development of doctoral education, it is essential to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, uphold the principles of cultivating virtue and fostering talents, serving needs, reforming and innovating, and opening up and integrating. Efforts should be made to balance scale expansion with substantive construction, build a doctoral education system with Chinese characteristics and world-class standards, expedite the establishment of a major center for doctoral education in the world, and target the cultivation of strategic talents and urgently needed talents for the nation. This will provide strong support for building a major center for global talent and innovation, achieving self-reliance in high-level science and technology, and fully realizing the goal of building a modern socialist country.

The document emphasizes the need to improve the disciplinary and professional system, and strengthen the forward-looking layout for the cultivation of national strategic talents. It calls for optimizing the disciplinary and professional layout, enhancing the mechanisms for timely response to national needs in the establishment, construction, and adjustment of disciplines and majors, and strengthening the construction of degree authorization points in fields such as science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, basic disciplines, emerging disciplines, and interdisciplinary studies. It also aims to increase the proportion of doctoral professional degree authorization points, accelerate the construction of key areas of disciplines and majors, and promote the integrated development of interdisciplinary studies.

To reshape the elements of the training process and comprehensively enhance the quality of independent talent cultivation. Strengthen ideological and political guidance, reform the enrollment management model, optimize the training process, strengthen the mechanisms for分流退出 and multiple choices, explore the establishment of a classification development and integrated innovation mechanism for academic and professional degree training, improve the evaluation system, build a high-level mentor team, and deepen international exchange and cooperation.

To reconstruct collaborative mechanisms and enhance the capacity for cultivating top-tier innovative talents. Stimulate the vitality of integrating science and education, activate the momentum of integrating industry and education, empower regional innovation development, and promote the organic connection between the education chain, talent chain, industry chain, and innovation chain.

The document emphasizes the need to optimize resource allocation and strengthen overall leadership. It calls for increased investment in doctoral education and the establishment of a stable support mechanism. It supports regions and training institutions with the necessary conditions to pilot reforms, implementing them in stages and categories.