On the Application-oriented Talents' Cultivation at Undergraduate Level of Higher Education

摘要

From the perspective of application-oriented talents' cultivation at undergraduate level of higher education, the paper describes the connotation, proposes the approach and outlines the general view of cultivating application-oriented talents at undergraduate level of higher education. According to the data released by the Ministry of Education in 2011, the total numbers of full-time undergraduate institutes in mainland China is 792, among which there are over 430 colleges and 350 universities. Undergraduate education is the foundation of higher education in China. Except for a few universities and colleges are research-based among 985 Higher Educational Institutes, and no matter teaching based or teaching-research based universities and colleges, most of the nearly 800 undergraduate level institutes in mainland China are application-oriented to train their students for the main battlefield of the economic development of our country which has important strategic significance to promote and realize our country to be more powerful in the field of human resource. This paper discusses a number of issues of application-oriented talents' cultivation at undergraduate level of higher education.