Engineers are an important force to promote engineering science and technology for the benefit of mankind and create the future, and are an important part of the national strategic talent force. To build a modern socialist country in an all-round way, more engineers should be guided to care about "national affairs" and shoulder "national responsibilities". Recently, on the occasion of the first selection and commendation of the "National Engineer Award", General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions and put forward ardent expectations for the vast number of engineering and technical personnel across the country. Key core technologies, forging high-quality projects, promoting the development of new-quality productivity, accelerating the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, and serving high-quality development, to make greater contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of a powerful country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization ", it points out the way forward for promoting the construction of the engineer team in the new era.

Cultivating a large number of outstanding engineers is a realistic need for China to accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system and promote the leap from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to accelerate the construction of national strategic talents, and strive to cultivate more masters, strategic scientists, first-class scientific and technological leaders and innovation teams, young scientific and technological talents, outstanding engineers, craftsmen of big countries, and highly skilled talents. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the Central Talent Work Conference: "It is necessary to train a large number of outstanding engineers and strive to build a team of engineers who love the party and serve the country, are dedicated to their work, have outstanding technological innovation capabilities, and are good at solving complex engineering problems." Under the background of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation challenges, the development of my country's manufacturing industry is facing a major historical opportunity of transformation and upgrading and leapfrog development, and it is more necessary to train a group of high-quality engineers. Since the beginning of the new century, policies such as "excellent engineer education and training plan" and "excellent engineer education and training plan 2.0" have been launched and implemented one after another, laying a solid foundation for speeding up the training of excellent engineering and scientific and technological talents. At present, my country has built the world's largest engineering education system. The number of engineers has increased from about 5.21 million in 2000 to about 20.592 million in 2023, providing important intellectual support for my country to promote new industrialization and support high-level construction of a manufacturing power. Taking the vast number of outstanding engineers as an example, higher engineering education should keep pace with the times, actively serve the strategic needs of the country, meet the urgent needs of the country, and speed up the training of engineers who can promote industrial development and meet the needs of enterprises. to become the backbone of promoting high-quality development.

Improve the growth support, cultivate and build a large-scale excellent engineer team. Excellent engineer training is a systematic project. Facing the future, it is necessary to further strengthen the independent training of engineering and technical personnel, constantly improve the social status of engineers, create conditions for them to become talents and make contributions, and create a strong atmosphere of thinking together, working hard, overcoming difficulties, and striving for innovation. On the one hand, we should promote the construction of new engineering, highlight the integration of production and education, focus on the task of new industrialization, lay out and build a number of future technical colleges, modern industrial colleges and professional characteristic colleges, and build a "national practice base of outstanding engineers". On the other hand, train a number of digital transformation talents, advanced manufacturing technology talents, advanced basic technology talents and engineers with outstanding technological innovation ability and good at solving complex engineering problems, in the face of emerging industries and future industries, unblock the integrated design and virtuous circle of education, science and technology, and talents, promote the organic connection of education chain, talent chain, industrial chain and innovation chain, strengthen the construction of technology research and development platform of "personal academic interest national strategic demand industry development demand", encourage engineering and technical personnel to anchor core technical problems, and give full play to the promotion and leading role of scientific and technological innovation in industrial technology upgrading.

Build an innovation stage and encourage more engineers to show their strengths in the front line of industrial practice. The key to cultivate a large number of excellent engineers with both ability and political integrity is to take the road of independent training of engineering and technical personnel. In the top-level design, we should innovate the source training mechanism, further promote the cooperative teaching mode of industry, University and research, align the talent training with the national major industrial layout and keep close to the reality of the industry and enterprises, make the cultivation of engineering and technical talents closer to the industrial practice, make the research problems more in line with the actual needs, dynamically update the professional settings and teaching contents according to the specific practice, and constantly update the professional teaching standards, Improve the accuracy of talent training. In terms of channel construction, we should unblock the transformation of industry, University and research, take the promotion of major scientific and technological projects as the starting point, explore the innovation and creation platform of integrated engineering technology experiments throughout the country, provinces, cities, universities and enterprises, remove the "fence wall" hindering industrialization, dredge the fast lane of connecting applied basic research and industrialization, and accelerate the transformation of scientific research achievements from samples to products to commodities, Realize the three-level jump of scientific research, experimental development and promotion and application.

Improve the evaluation mechanism to allow more young engineering talents to settle down and work at ease. Continuously strengthening the construction of outstanding engineers in the new era requires great efforts and long-term contributions. The first is to promote the shaping of an innovation ecology with Chinese characteristics, deepen the reform of the evaluation of engineering science and technology talents, and help the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the cultivation and growth of new quality productivity. The second is to continue to deepen the reform of the science and technology management system, continuously improve the differentiated evaluation and long-term support mechanism, and guide the majority of young engineering talents to cultivate a good style of study, sit on the "cold bench", study real problems, and produce hard results. The third is to help young engineering talents better solve the "growth troubles", support them to "take the lead" and "play the leading role" in major national scientific and technological tasks, and give young scientific and technological talents more opportunities to take the lead and stand out, so that young scientific and technological talents can better settle down, feel at ease, and work in peace, so as to form a vivid situation in which everyone is eager to become a talent, everyone strives to become a talent, and everyone. The cultivation and growth of outstanding engineers is inseparable from the strong social atmosphere of respecting knowledge, advocating innovation, respecting talents, loving science, and dedicating to science. In the future, we look forward to the emergence of more engineering and scientific and technological talents who love the party, serve the country, make selfless dedication, are skilled in skills, and achieve excellence one after another. strive to be the creators of major scientific research achievements, devotees of building a powerful country in science and technology, practitioners of lofty ideological character, and leaders of good social fashion, and write a magnificent chapter in the great practice of promoting Chinese-style modernization!

Guangming Daily (February 21, 2024, 02)