Is a doctoral supervisor higher than a professor? What is the title of PhD supervisor?

It is said that turning a doctoral supervisor into a "professional title" higher than that of a professor is said to be a Chinese joke that makes Chinese people laugh at Westerners, but this kind of joke is actually real. Not long ago, Peking University launched a new plan for postgraduate admissions reform, which was piloted in several departments, reflecting some deep-rooted habits and hobbies of the Chinese people. Although the specific details of the plan are not clear to the outside world, and even some professors from the relevant departments involved are not clear about it, the general content, according to the announcement by relevant units of the school, mainly has two aspects: First, breaking the doctorate It is customary that only professors can serve as supervisors. All qualified lecturers and associate professors can apply to serve as doctoral supervisors. Second, graduate student admissions no longer indicate the names of supervisors. After admission, students can choose by themselves among teachers with supervisor qualifications. Among these two items, the reform of tutor qualifications is the most eye-catching. Turning doctoral supervisor into a first-level "professional title" that is actually higher than that of professor is said to be a Chinese joke that makes Chinese people laugh at Westerners. However, this kind of joke actually reflects a certain aspect of Chinese people. deep-rooted habits and hobbies. From ancient times to the present, Chinese people have had two trends of interest in the hierarchy. One is to strengthen the hierarchy, so that the more levels there are, the more complicated the ritual differences between levels, the better. The nine-level and eighteen-level official ranks have been implemented for many years. Each level not only has a different salary, but also has different clothing and clothing, and the title ceremony for each level is different. The peasants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as soon as they had settled half of their lives in the mountains and rivers, began to organize themselves into different ranks, even more so than in the Qing Dynasty. Children of different ranks were called differently. The second trend is that everyone strives to reach the highest level. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the nine-grade Zhongzheng system was implemented among scholars, and the scholars were divided into nine grades (grades). Theoretically, the three grades should be distributed in a normal and balanced manner. However, in fact, since the first grade was reserved exclusively for the royal family and had no meaning to the scholars, the second grade became the actual highest grade, known as " "Zhuoran Second Grade", no one even cares about the third grade. Over time, under the desperate crowding of everyone, the official in charge of distribution could not withstand the pressure and opened his mouth wider and wider. In the end, a very aristocratic system turned into a top-heavy monster. In the late years of many dynasties, there were more high-ranking officials in the court. Zuo Zongtang's personal soldiers were all high-ranking officials. The same was true for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. On the eve of the demise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, more than 2,700 kings were sealed in one day. This kind of problem has become more and more serious in modern times. This is what it means to add a doctoral supervisor on top of a professor, and a postdoctoral fellow has actually become a first-level "degree" above a doctorate. No one pays attention to technical technical schools (in fact, it is this level of talent that is really lacking), undergraduates are notorious, and everyone only recognizes master's and doctoral degrees. As a result, master's and doctoral degrees are greatly expanded and sold at low prices. Many schools even have more professors than lecturers. All these problems are related to bureaucracy. The so-called ranks now are official ranks. China's aristocracy shrank long ago and was replaced by the ubiquitous bureaucracy. History has proven that the administrative orientation of society will inevitably lead to a hierarchy dependent on the bureaucracy. At the same time, sooner or later, the rules and restrictions of the hierarchy will be broken, and the highest level will be Crowding with people leads to an overall devaluation of the hierarchy. Today in our colleges and universities, professional titles have too strong an administrative-level color. Let alone the official analogy that lecturers are equivalent to section chiefs and professors are equivalent to division directors, the setting of professional titles itself is also a power granted by the education administrative department. As for whether you can become a doctoral supervisor, it depends on whether the education administrative department gives you the right. Give you PhD points. Judging from the current problems in graduate student admissions, there are problems with too many tutors and procedural flaws, but fundamentally speaking, it is still a problem of too much administrative orientation. As for the subsequent content of the reform, there are actually many questions. Allowing students to choose their own tutors will inevitably lead to the generalization of examination subjects, which is not conducive to the need for specialization at the graduate level.