The Ministry of Education (MOE) recently convened a meeting to advance talent training pilot reforms that better align supply with demand. Vice Minister of Education Xiong Sihao attended and delivered remarks.

The meeting stressed that the pilot reforms are an important step in implementing President Xi Jinping’s key instructions on education; on carrying out China’s 2024–2035 Master Plan on Building China into a Leading Country in Education and its Three-Year Action Plan; and on supporting Chinese modernization and high-quality development. The pilot reforms aim to ease structural employment pressures and promote fuller, higher-quality employment for university graduates.

The meeting called for a focus on key tasks, such as developing data-driven engines for the alignment of supply and demand, building interdepartmental coordination mechanisms, and improving the “admissions–training–employment” model in higher education institutions. Greater efforts will also be needed to create faster pathways for responding to market demand; to optimize employment guidance for graduates; and to establish a dynamic, balanced, forward-looking system to align talent supply and demand.

The meeting urged pilot provinces and universities to ensure successful reforms by strengthening organization and accountability; managing progress in a timely and effective manner; enhancing support measures; and improving coordination and communication.

Representatives from the Jiangxi, Anhui, Hebei, and Shandong provincial education departments, as well as Renmin University of China, Xidian University, and Jiangsu Vocational College of Information Technology, shared their experiences. Officials from education-related government departments in Beijing and 18 other pilot provinces, along with officials from pilot universities, also attended the meeting.