How to understand the strong foundation plan? What impact will the future bring?

What does the Strong Foundation Plan mean?

The pilot program of enrollment reform in basic disciplines, also known as the strong foundation program, mainly selects and trains students who are interested in serving the country's major strategic needs, have excellent comprehensive quality or are top-notch in basic disciplines.

In June 5438 +2020 10, the Opinions of the Ministry of Education on Piloting the Enrollment Reform of Basic Subjects was issued, and it was decided that starting from 2020, the enrollment reform of basic subjects would be piloted in some colleges and universities (also known as the Strong Foundation Plan).

The strong foundation program mainly selects students who are interested in serving the country's major strategic needs, have excellent comprehensive quality or are top-notch in basic disciplines. To highlight the supporting and leading role of basic disciplines, relevant colleges and universities should combine their own school-running characteristics and recruit students with the focus on mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and history, philosophy, ancient philology and other related majors.

For a very small number of candidates who have outstanding talent and performance in related disciplines, the relevant colleges and universities may formulate exceptional admission conditions and exceptional admission methods and standards, and announce them to the public in advance.

Self-enrollment mainly selects "students with academic expertise and innovation potential", and the Strong Foundation Program mainly selects "students who are interested in serving the country's major strategic needs, with excellent comprehensive quality or top-notch basic disciplines".

Fifth, the training mode is different. The relevant colleges and universities have not made special arrangements for the training methods of independent enrollment; The enrollment of the strong basic plan is implemented in small class and tutorial system, and the training mode of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students is explored to smooth the channels for students' growth and development and realize the benign interaction between enrollment and training.

The most fatal thing about a strong foundation is that you can't change majors (at least the schools I know can't change majors). There is really no need to tie people who are not interested or have actual survival needs to basic subjects. As we all know, the fundamental reason for a strong foundation is that basic subjects can't find jobs, which is not as popular as financial CS. Why bother?

In my humble opinion, the most effective and only way for the country to strengthen basic science is to improve the treatment of scientific researchers. We train many researchers every year, but they either study in the water or go abroad. The reason is that foreign countries are well paid, and there are no professional titles or even unemployment in China. How do you want people to study it?

Strong foundation program is a new pilot program for enrollment reform of basic subjects launched by the Ministry of Education, which has replaced the previous independent enrollment. The strong foundation program mainly selects and trains students who are interested in serving the country's major strategic needs, with excellent comprehensive quality or top-notch basic disciplines. Focus on key areas such as high-end chips and software, intelligent technology, new materials, advanced manufacturing and national security, as well as humanities and social sciences where national talents are in short supply. Relevant universities should rationally arrange enrollment majors in light of their own school-running characteristics. Highlight the supporting and leading role of basic disciplines, and focus on the enrollment of related majors such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and history, philosophy and ancient philology.