Promoting the integrated reform of the education, science and technology talent system and mechanism

The Central Economic Work Conference summarized the economic work in 2024 and deployed the economic work in 2025, emphasizing that we must fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, and further deepen reform in an all-round way. Reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for contemporary China to catch up with the times in great strides, and it is a key move that determines the success or failure of China’s modernization.
Focusing on deepening reform, how can local governments play the leading role of economic system reform and promote the implementation of landmark reform measures? On the evening of January 16, CCTV’s “Focus Interview” broadcast the “Planning for Development, Starting a New Chapter” series program “Reform to Solve Difficulties and Increase Momentum for Development”, interviewing the main leaders of 5 sub-provincial cities on how to implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and plan ideas and measures to promote high-quality development. Zhou Hongbo, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, accepted the interview.
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The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized that in order to do a good job in economic work in 2025, we must further deepen reform in an all-round way.

At present, my country’s development has entered a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing. In the face of problems in development, we must further deepen reform in an all-round way and promote solutions from the institutional and mechanism level.

The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized that scientific and technological innovation should be used to lead the development of new quality productive forces and build a modern industrial system.

To promote scientific and technological innovation, we must break down institutional and mechanism barriers and allow all kinds of advanced and high-quality production factors to flow smoothly towards the development of new quality productive forces.

Nanjing is a national pilot city for comprehensive reform of the science and technology system. Based on this advantage, Nanjing has carried out national pilot projects such as science and technology talent evaluation and confirmation of rights to official scientific and technological achievements, and established the first national regional technology transfer and transformation center for universities.

Zhou Hongbo, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee: “For Nanjing, the biggest landmark reform is to promote the integrated reform of the education, science and technology talent system and mechanism. Nanjing’s fundamental way out lies in innovation, the breakthrough of innovation lies in reform, and the key path of reform lies in integration. We must deepen the integration of the ‘four chains’ of innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain, strengthen the main body, build a good platform, and clear the bottlenecks to form an industrial and technological innovation closed loop, and effectively transform Nanjing’s comparative advantages in science and education talents into a development advantage.”

The Central Economic Work Conference pointed out that we should continue to optimize the business environment and better gather the joint efforts to promote high-quality development. Creating a more market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment is inseparable from profound institutional reform and innovation.

Nanjing has placed the breakthrough point for optimizing the business environment on institutional integrated innovation, adhered to systematicity, integrity and coordination, and launched a number of cross-departmental, cross-industry, cross-system and penetrating institutional integrated innovation results.