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4 - Higher education and scientists and engineers in the pipeline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2011

Denis Fred Simon
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
Cong Cao
Affiliation:
Levin Graduate Institute, SUNY
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Summary

The rapid increase of China's human resources in science and technology (HRST), described and analyzed in Chapter 3, is a product of the nation's rapid, continuous, and sustained economic growth during the post-Mao economic reform and open-door era. The country's growth imperative has fuelled the demand for larger and larger numbers of high-quality technical and managerial personnel. This has placed an increasing burden on the higher education system, which has been asked to provide a larger volume of capable graduates to assume crucial positions throughout the economy and society.

In recent years, higher education has become much more desirable and also more affordable to most Chinese, who recognized that investment in higher education can bring long-term benefits in terms of rising levels of compensation and greater social status. As the utility of obtaining a college degree or beyond has become more and more apparent, and taking into account the one-child family planning policies across most of China, there has been a steady acceleration in the number of students seeking higher education in China. Between 1991 and 2006, China's regular institutions of higher education turned out a total of 21 million undergraduates and 1.25 million graduate students, including 193,000 doctorates (see Table 2.1). The total enrollment in higher education, including those in various non-traditional higher education programs – from adult institutions of higher education, radio and TV universities, internet-based education, to self-learning – reached 25 million by the end of 2006.

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China's Emerging Technological Edge
Assessing the Role of High-End Talent
, pp. 110 - 165
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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