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Higher Education and the Expansion of Technically Qualified Industrial Workers During China's Modernization, 1976–1985

Year: 1979

Type: article

Abstract: A maxim of Chinese development policy is that the educational system serves to further economic growth. With each modification of economic strategy over the past 30 years the structure of education has been adjusted so that the process and output of the schools reflect the change in economic policy. The current modernization campaign is no exception; at its center is the training of high-level technical personnel to staff the modern enterprises emphasized by the “Four Modernizations.” Such training had been significantly downgraded for a decade.

Source: Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars

DOI: 10.1080/14672715.1979.10424012

Author: Fred Herschede

Language: English

Topic: China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2332922895

FWCI: 4.873

Cites: 5

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10