Higher Education in Western China Serves Rural Revitalization:Historical Orientation,Value Implications and Practical Approach
The distinctive feature of Chinese modernization is that it puts people at the center and strives to promote balanced development and common prosperity.Rural revitalization is the only way to achieve inte-grated urban and rural development and common prosperity.As the region with the largest area and relatively low level of economic development in China,the western region is the key and difficult area in effectively con-necting rural revitalization after winning the war against poverty.Due to its unique location and functional ad-vantages,the western higher education has become the strategic endogenous force of the western rural revital-ization,which affects the overall situation of the western rural revitalization to a certain extent.On the one hand,the implementation of rural revitalization strategy provides a strong strategic opportunity for the develop-ment of western higher education.On the other hand,higher education in the west has provided high-quality intellectual support for the revitalization of the western countryside.Specifically,western higher education ena-bles rural revitalization,contributes wisdom and provides programs for rural development,which are mainly re-flected in three aspects:focusing personnel training,conducting organized scientific research,and promoting the development of think tanks.
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