The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to coordinate the innovation of vocational education, higher education, and continuing education, promote the integration of vocational and general education, industry and education, as well as science and education, and optimize the positioning of vocational education types. In January 2025, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Outline of the Plan for Building an Education Strong Country (2024-2035), emphasizing the comprehensive construction of a vocational education system that integrates industry and education. Deepening the integration of industry and education has become a key strategy to promote the construction of modern vocational education system, solve the structural contradiction between talent supply and demand, and serve the transformation and upgrading of industries.
Currently, driven by national policies, universities are actively embracing reform and enthusiastically promoting integration. However, as the employer subjects, the responses of the enterprises are often insufficient. The phenomenon of school heat and enterprise coldness has become a core bottleneck restricting the deep integration of industry and education, hindering the precise supply of high-quality technical and skilled talents, and affecting the improvement of industrial competitiveness. Thoroughly analyzing its deep roots and proposing effective countermeasures are of urgent practical significance for bridging the last mile of policy implementation, as well as truly achieving school-enterprise collaboration in education and high-quality development.
