Reflections on Association of Production, Education and Research in the Context of Application-oriented Universities

Applied talents are an important measure of national personnel training strategy adjustment, and are also the inevitable choices of education in the economic and social development. Under the new situation, this paper advocates the objective necessity and practical value and significance of association of Production, Education and Research carried out in application-oriented universities, and how to cultivate applied talents through the association in the new period strategy. The "national long-term education reform and development plan(2010-2020)" clearly points out: "to optimize the structure of higher education, the optimization of specialty, type, level structure, and promote interdisciplinary integration; to focus on expanding the application type, compound type, the scale of training skilled personnel". This is the historical background of the economic transformation of higher education personnel training strategy, but also the national level for the first time the application of personnel training to write a formal document. The international standard classification of education will be divided into three categories: a comprehensive research university, the development of natural science, social sciences and humanities research talent; the application of multidisciplinary professional or single universities or colleges, cultivate a solid theoretical foundation of the different levels of the senior specialized personnel and management personnel, such as lawyers, teachers, engineers, physicians and other "teacher" talents; vocational and technical colleges and universities train in production, management, service in the first line of the specific work of technical personnel[1]. The second kind of university mainly refers to the application-oriented colleges which specialize in training applied talents. At present, China's economic development is changing from dependence on resources, labor force to rely on innovation, talent transformation, economic and social development, which is crying for a large number of high-quality applied talents who graduate from the university. It has become an urgent problem that how to cultivate high quality applied talents in application-oriented universities, and the construction of production, education and research will become an important part of the reform of higher education.