Vocational Education to Prioritize New Majors in Low-altitude Economy and Artificial Intelligence

The Ministry of Education today (December 12th) released the "Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Key Elements in Vocational Education Teaching," which proposes: dynamically adjusting the setup of majors, actively adding new ones, eliminating oversupplied ones, and upgrading existing majors. Focusing on the goal of cultivating highly skilled talents, increase the overall coordination of major setting adjustment and optimization, and strictly implement the "red and yellow card" warning system. Utilize big data and artificial intelligence to accurately predict the supply and demand of talent cultivation in key areas, providing a scientific basis for dynamic major adjustment. Explore the establishment of a fast response channel for adding new majors, focusing on emerging and future industries, with emphasis on adding new majors in fields such as the low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, high-end equipment, urban renewal, and essential needs of people's livelihoods. Promptly eliminate majors with weak operating conditions, poor quality, and low employment rates, avoiding a "large and scattered" or "weak and comprehensive" major layout. Around the direction of intelligence, greening, and integration, transform and upgrade existing majors, and continuously promote the iterative updating of professional talent training programs. Encourage and support local areas to set up regionally distinctive majors based on local conditions. Encourage school-enterprise joint development and application for national professional teaching standards, and distinctive majors can be suffixed with the name of the school, enterprise, or region in parentheses.