Expansion of the Enterprise's Right to Independent Action Sets New Agenda for Higher Education

Judging by the units in Shanghai that experiment with reforming the industrial system, expansion of the enterprise's right to independent action has set new demands on the work in higher education. Some farsighted leaders in industrial circles predict that in the final analysis, the superiority of a product in competition will come from its technological superiority. Training and building up technological strength depends on education. Our higher education, however, is at present unable to fill this need. It does not supply graduates who are in demand, but instead assigns [to industrial operations] an endless flow of those with specialties with which they are already saturated.