Currently, the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is reshaping the global competitive landscape, and scientific and technological innovation has become the core driving force for national development. Talents are the foundation of innovation, and outstanding sci-tech innovation talents are even more the strategic support for achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement and advancing Chinese-style modernization. From "giving priority to talent development" to "talent-led development", China is constructing a talent training system with systematic thinking, and laying a solid foundation and broadening channels for cultivating top sci-tech innovation talents through multiple paths such as education-based foundation, industry-education-research integration, institutional innovation and ecological optimization.

Education as the Foundation: Building a Full-Chain System for Cultivating Innovative Talents

Education is the source of talent cultivation. Building a full-chain training system from basic education to higher education is the core premise for cultivating sci-tech innovation talents. At the basic education stage, we should break the shackles of exam-oriented education, strengthen the cultivation of scientific spirit and innovative thinking, and stimulate young people's enthusiasm for scientific exploration by offering popular science courses such as programming and artificial intelligence, building campus sci-tech innovation laboratories, and holding youth sci-tech innovation competitions. As the main position for cultivating top-notch innovative talents, higher education needs to focus on national strategic needs, optimize the discipline layout, strengthen the construction of basic disciplines, emerging disciplines and interdisciplinary disciplines, and accurately cultivate talents in "chokepoint" areas such as artificial intelligence and quantum information. At the same time, promote the in-depth integration of ideological and political education with professional education, integrate the feelings of family and country into the whole process of talent training, guide talents to establish the ideal and belief of "serving the country through science and technology", and lay a solid ideological foundation during the "critical growth period".

Industry-Education Integration: Building a Collaborative Talent Training Platform for Industry, Education and Research

The practical nature of scientific and technological innovation determines that talent training must break out of the classroom walls and realize in-depth integration of education, industry and scientific research. Colleges and universities should take the initiative to connect with the needs of leading enterprises, jointly build industry-education integration innovation laboratories, integrate advanced enterprise equipment and core technical resources into teaching links, and enable students to improve their practical abilities in real scientific research scenarios. Establish a "double-qualified" teacher training mechanism, promote young teachers to participate in paid internships in enterprises, encourage teachers to participate in real enterprise projects, and make up for the shortage of practical experience of college teachers. At the same time, improve the hierarchical and classified training system, optimize training programs according to the talent needs at different levels such as basic research, technological research and development, and application practice, and implement a diversified evaluation model of "academic thesis + enterprise achievements", so as to accurately connect talent training with industrial needs and realize a virtuous cycle of "discovering talents in innovative practice and cultivating talents in innovative activities".

Institutional Empowerment: Deepening Reform to Release the Innovative Vitality of Talents

A sound institutional mechanism is an important guarantee for talent growth. Only by removing the institutional obstacles restricting talent development can the innovative vitality flow fully. We should deepen the reform of sci-tech talent evaluation, break the inertial thinking of "only papers, only professional titles, only academic qualifications", establish an evaluation system oriented by innovative value, ability and contribution, and endow scientific research talents with greater decision-making power over personnel, financial and material resources and technical routes. Improve the talent incentive mechanism, increase support for talents in fields such as basic research and key core technology research, and enable talents to benefit more from the transformation of scientific research achievements through equity dividends, project follow-up investment and other methods. At the same time, comprehensively promote the integrated reform of education, science and technology, and talent systems and mechanisms, improve the new nationwide system, integrate innovative resources such as colleges and universities, scientific research institutes and enterprises, form a cross-field and cross-industry collaborative talent training pattern, and provide all-round institutional guarantees for talent growth.

Ecological Optimization: Creating an Open and Inclusive Environment for Talent Development

The growth of outstanding sci-tech innovation talents is inseparable from a good ecology of openness, inclusiveness and encouragement of exploration. We should adhere to "gathering talents from all over the world for use", optimize talent introduction policies, build international scientific research cooperation platforms, attract global top talents to innovate and start businesses in China, and form a two-way efforts pattern of "local training + international introduction". Create a cultural atmosphere that encourages innovation and tolerates failure, break departmental barriers and regional restrictions, and promote the free flow of talents and knowledge sharing. Strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, severely crack down on infringement acts, and provide legal guarantees for talents' innovative achievements. In addition, improve the talent service system, solve practical problems such as housing, medical care and children's education, so that talents can wholeheartedly engage in scientific research and burst out innovative inspiration and achieve career dreams in a relaxed environment.

Cultivating outstanding sci-tech innovation talents is a systematic project that requires long-term strategic determination and practical wisdom of precise policies. From education-based foundation to industry-education-research integration, and from institutional empowerment to ecological optimization, China is activating the innovative potential of talents with an all-round and multi-level training system. In the future, with the in-depth implementation of the talent-strengthening nation strategy, more outstanding talents who are committed to patriotic dedication and courage to innovate and create will continue to emerge, providing solid talent support for achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement and building a great modern socialist country in an all-round way.