中国式现代化背景下西部高等教育高质量发展的战略选择

A Strategic Choice for the High-quality Development of Higher Education in Western China under the Background of Chinese Modernization

我国西部高等教育高质量发展事关高等教育强国建设和中国式现代化的进程。中国式现代化从方法论和认识论创新的高度启示西部高等教育高质量发展,必须从自身发展的小格局式的“追赶思维”向服务经济社会的大格局的“不可替代思维”转变,走一条以差异化发展、特殊化发展和特色化发展为特征的现代化道路。长期以来,由于受区域社会经济发展水平的制约和高等教育布局的影响,东中西部高校在一流学科建设、国家级平台搭建和高层次人才引育方面的“长板”要素之间差距不是在缩小,而是在进一步拉大。西部高校原本的“长板”要素处于明显弱势地位,“长板”变成了相对意义的“短板”。面对西部高等教育在学科建设与转型发展、科技创新平台供给结构、高层次创新人才引育秩序等方面的多重问题,破解西部高等教育高质量发展困境,亟待通过补齐短板树立发展信心,一体化构建推动西部高等教育整体崛起的“一体两翼”。深入推进新一轮西部高校“一流学科”建设,以分类发展支持学科建设,以特色发展提升学科质量,以集群发展提升服务能力,加强学科建设的顶层谋划、交叉融合、结构优化和社会职能,重构学科创新集群发展的新生态体系;通过顶层设计与底层联结形成具有系统化和整体性的“点、群、域”合纵连横的科技创新平台,构筑西部高等教育高质量发展的战略基石,形成“合纵连横”的战略平台新格局;注重“外引”和“内培”人才相结合,激发西部高等学校吸引人才的“聚集力”,激活西部高校人才驱动创新的“能动力”,为构建西部高等教育新发展格局提供人才支撑,造就一流自立自强人才方阵。

The high-quality development of higher education in the western part of China is crucial to the construction of a higher education country and the process of Chinese-style modernization.The Chinese-style modernization also enlightens the high-quality development of western higher education from the significance of methodological and epistemological innovation,and it is necessary to change from the small pattern of “catch-up thinking” of its own development to the large pattern of “irreplaceable thinking” of serving the economy and society,and take a modernization road characterized by differentiated development,special development and characteristic development.For a long time,due to the constraints of the regional socio-economic development level and the influence of the layout of higher education,the gap between the “longboard” elements of the universities in the east,middle and west in the construction of first-class academic disciplines,the construction of national platforms and the attraction of high-level talents are further widening rather than narrowing.The original “long board” elements of western universities are in a clearly disadvantaged position,and the “longboard” has become the relative significance of the “shortboard”.In the face of multiple problems of the western higher education in the discipline construction and transformation and development,scientific and technological innovation platform supply structure,the order of attracting high-level innovative talents and so on,to solve the dilemma of high-quality development of higher education in the western region,it is urgent to build confidence in the development by filling the gaps,and to build an integrated “one body and two wings” to promote the overall rise of higher education in the western region.To deepen the construction of a new round of “first-class disciplines” in western universities,it is necessary to support discipline construction with classified development,improve discipline quality with distinctive development,enhance service capabilities with cluster development,strengthen top-level planning,cross integration,structural optimization,and social functions of discipline construction,and reconstruct a new ecological system for the development of disciplinary innovation clusters;by connecting the top-level design with the bottom layer,a systematic and holistic technology innovation platform of “points,groups,and domains” is formed,and a strategic cornerstone for the high-quality development of higher education in the western region is constructed,forming a new strategic integration platform pattern;by emphasizing the combination of “external recruitment” and “internal training” of talents,the “gathering power” of attracting talents in western higher education institutions will be stimulated,and the “initiative” of talent driven innovation in western universities will be activated,providing effective talent support for building a new development pattern of western higher education,and cultivating a first-class independent and self-strengthening talent formation.