If the college entrance examination is a trial of youth, then professional choice is the ideal first real landing. In the upcoming midsummer, thousands of college entrance examination candidates should not only use their pen as their blade to split the light of the future, but also use their heart as their rudder to choose a waterway for their lives.

　　Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the filing and approval results of undergraduate majors in general higher education institutions in 2024, and simultaneously released the "Catalogue of Undergraduate Majors in General Higher Education Institutions (2025)" (hereinafter referred to as the "New Directory"). The new catalog includes 93 major categories and 845 majors, and 29 new majors are added, further strengthening the rapid response of professional settings to national strategies urgently needed and high-quality development needs.

　　Against the backdrop of further increasing efforts to adjust and optimize disciplines and majors in universities across the country, personal professional choices are like a trickle of flowing into the vast rivers and seas, which is not only a pursuit of self-worth, but also an echo of the wave of the times. How can we find the right direction in the "new professional blue ocean" full of opportunities and challenges?

　　The person in charge of the new major told you

　　Marine Science and Technology Major

　　Universities: Tongji University

　　Jian Zhimin: Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and President of the School of Marine and Earth Sciences, Tongji University

　　The major of marine science and technology focuses on the scientific concept of the earth system, highlights the teaching model of the integration of science and technology and the combination of theory and application, and aims to enable students to master solid basic theoretical knowledge of marine science and technology and be able to use theoretical knowledge to solve complex engineering problems in the development and application of the marine field, and strives to cultivate interdisciplinary and compound innovative talents with scientific thinking and innovative practice abilities.

　　Tongji University’s newly established marine science and technology major is not only based on the school’s outstanding talent training conditions and scientific research strength in this field, but also in response to the country’s needs for the times of “developing the marine economy, protecting the marine ecological environment, and accelerating the construction of a strong marine country.”

　　Students, choosing a major in marine science and technology means choosing to use your intelligence and talents to shoulder the mission of "a maritime power".

　　Carbon Neutral Science and Engineering Major

　　Universities: Beijing Normal University, Beijing University of Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology

　　Mao Xinping: Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and President of the Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Beijing University of Science and Technology

　　The national strategy of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality" has become a consensus among major countries in the world. The process industry carbon emissions represented by the steel industry account for more than 50% of the country's total, and is the main battlefield for my country to achieve its carbon neutrality goal. A large number of cross-complex outstanding talents with basic theory of carbon neutrality and mastering key common technologies in low-carbon are urgently needed.

　　Based on the two "double first-class" construction disciplines of materials and metallurgy, Beijing University of Science and Technology deeply integrates advantageous disciplines such as computer, environment, power engineering and engineering thermal physics, breaks discipline barriers, and is approved as the first cross-engineering carbon neutral science and engineering major in China. It sets up two major directions for sustainable materials and low-carbon metallurgy, and implements a six-year undergraduate and master's through-level and eight-year undergraduate and doctoral through-level training model. Students, welcome to choose the major of carbon neutral science and engineering, and devote themselves to basic research on carbon science, low-carbon technology development and carbon economic management, and contribute to the sustainable development of human society.

　　Health and health care professional

　　Universities: Heilongjiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chongqing Medical University

　　Qiu Jingfu: Vice President of Chongqing Medical University and Academic and Technical Leader of Chongqing Public Health and Preventive Medicine

　　The health and medical insurance major is closely linked to the national strategy, accurately grasp the development trends of the health industry and industry, deeply integrate health maintenance and medical insurance throughout the life cycle, innovate talent training models, and achieve breakthroughs in cultivating compound professional talents who understand health management and improve medical insurance.

　　The major of Health and Medical Insurance at Chongqing Medical University focuses on building a scientific, fair and sustainable national health security system, closely connects with the "Healthy China 2030" Plan Outline, guided by the "Healthy China" strategy, based on the advantages of medical characteristics, integrates modern health management, medical insurance policies and scientific and technological frontiers, integrates medical, insurance and management resources, and focuses on the health and health work policy in the new era, serves the major national strategic needs, and cultivates high-level compound talents with medical literacy, management capabilities and innovative thinking.

　　Graduates can engage in medical insurance management, health insurance underwriting and claims, health insurance policy development and evaluation, etc., and can also go to universities, research institutes, etc. to continue to engage in scientific research and further studies.

　　Low-altitude technology and engineering major

　　Universities: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, South China University of Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing University of Technology

　　Long Teng: Dean of the School of Astronautics, Beijing Institute of Technology

　　Low-altitude technology involves many disciplines such as low-altitude aircraft design, energy power, navigation control and low-altitude traffic management, and is an important support for the high-quality development of the low-altitude economy. Beijing Institute of Technology has established a major in low-altitude technology and engineering. By gathering resources in advantageous disciplines such as aerospace science and technology, information and communication engineering, mechanics, focusing on the core needs of low-altitude safety in the fields of low-altitude aircraft design, research and development and low-altitude traffic air traffic control, building a multi-party collaborative training mechanism, to cultivate outstanding innovative talents in the low-altitude field, promote the rapid generation of new quality productivity in the low-altitude field, and make contributions to Beijing Institute of Technology.

　　Students, choose low-altitude technology and engineering majors, integrate their youthful dreams into the grand blueprint for the development of low-altitude economy, and bravely shoulder the mission of the times and achieve the value of life in serving the country's low-altitude strategy.

　　Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering Major

　　Universities: Fudan University, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

　　Lu Sheng: Dean of the School of Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

　　As the core driving force for the development of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, 6G communication networks and quantum computing, integrated circuits (chips) have been deeply integrated into the full life cycle management of data.

　　The major of integrated circuit science and engineering at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, relying on top scientific research carriers such as Chongqing Integrated Circuit Collaborative Innovation Center, gathers the advantages of cross-disciplinary advantages such as microelectronics, machinery, physics, and information, and responds to the country's strategic layout of breaking through key core technologies in the chip field. Professionally follow the needs of the industry, cultivate high-quality talents who are good at manufacturing technology, proficient in manufacturing processes, and master manufacturing equipment operation skills, and have the ability to solve "bottleneck" problems.

　　Students, choosing the major of integrated circuit science and engineering means choosing to become the "core maker" in the information age and the leader of the future technological destiny. We look forward to you climbing the peak of chip technology with your youthful ambitions and lighting up the future picture of "China's chip".

　　Marine science and technology, integrated circuit science and engineering, carbon neutral science and engineering, health and medical insurance, low-altitude technology and engineering... When the choice of a new major meets the national strategy, it is not only the meeting of youth and the times, but also the two-way journey between the individual and the great power.

　　Every major shoulders the mission of promoting social progress; every technological breakthrough will be transformed into real productivity; every choice reflects your thinking about the future and reflects the echo of the times.

　　1. Anchor the core national strategic needs

　　The new major is the call of duty for national strategies and a smart choice to embrace future blue ocean opportunities.

　　——The vast and deep blue is both an unknown secret realm and a journey of exploration.

　　"Artificial intelligence and big data have profoundly changed the traditional marine research paradigm. New ideas and new technologies such as 'marine system science', 'smart ocean' and 'transparent ocean' are promoting revolutionary changes in marine science and technology. At present, my country urgently needs a large number of interdisciplinary and compound innovative talents with professional knowledge of marine science and marine technology." Liu Yuzhu, vice president of the School of Marine and Earth Sciences of Tongji University, introduced that the school is aimed at the strategy of building a strong country in the ocean, closely following the new situation and new requirements of discipline development, integrating the original "marine science" and "marine technology" majors, and establishing a new major of "marine science and technology".

　　"The new major focuses on the scientific concept of the earth system, strengthens the integration and unity of science and technology, and aims to enable students to master solid basic theoretical knowledge of marine science and technology and be able to use theoretical knowledge to solve complex engineering problems in the development and application of the marine field, and strive to cultivate interdisciplinary and compound innovative talents with interdisciplinary and composite innovation talents with intersecting marine science and technology." Liu Yuzhu said.

　　——Integrated circuits, known as "industrial food", are the country's strategic, basic and pioneering industries.

　　In the future development of science and technology, the status of data as a core production factor will become increasingly prominent, and integrated circuits are the physical foundation for data generation and processing. By the end of 2023, Sichuan and Chongqing will work together to launch a three-year action plan for the cultivation and improvement of advanced electronic information manufacturing clusters in the Chengdu-Chongqing region. It is estimated that by 2025, the scale of the cluster's dominant industries will exceed 2.2 trillion yuan. The "Catalog of urgently needed scarce talents in the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle" released by the Chongqing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and the Sichuan Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security at the same time shows that integrated circuit engineering and technical personnel are extremely scarce talents.

　　"At present, whether from a national perspective or in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, the shortage of technical talents in the field of integrated circuit manufacturing has become a key bottleneck in industrial development." Lu Sheng, dean of the School of Advanced Manufacturing Engineering of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, said that this situation is the direct motivation for the school to establish the new integrated circuit science and engineering major.

　　"The new major serves the needs of major national strategies and the Chengdu-Chongqing electronic information advanced manufacturing cluster, cultivates high-quality talents who are good at manufacturing technology, proficient in manufacturing processes, master manufacturing equipment operation skills, and leading talents with the ability to solve 'bottleneck' problems." Lu Sheng said.

　　——The airspace below 300 meters above the ground is the main range of activities of low-altitude economy and one of the emerging tracks for new quality productivity.

　　In recent years, the Party and the state have made a series of major decisions and arrangements for the development of low-altitude economy, and low-altitude economy has been included in strategic emerging industries. The "China Low-altitude Economic Development Research Report (2024)" released by the CEDI Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that with the increasing number of low-altitude flight activities, it is expected that by 2026, the scale of low-altitude economics is expected to exceed one trillion yuan.

　　"The rapid development of low-altitude economy urgently requires basic support for low-altitude technology and engineering. Low-altitude technology involves a variety of fields such as aeronautical engineering, drone technology, and traffic management. There is a huge gap in demand for various types of talents." Long Teng, head of the Low-altitude Technology and Engineering major of Beijing Institute of Technology and dean of the School of Aerospace, introduced that the new major is facing the urgent needs of the national low-altitude economic development strategy and is committed to cultivating top innovative leading talents in related fields.

　　2 Focus on cross-integration + school-enterprise cooperation

　　The new major is an innovative breakthrough in the boundaries of disciplines and a practical bridge connecting industrial and social needs.

　　Against the backdrop of "dual carbon", in the face of the urgent demand for the strategic scientific and technological forces of green and low-carbon engineers by a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, Beijing University of Science and Technology has established a new carbon neutral science and engineering major. The head of the major - Mao Xinping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and dean of the Carbon Neutrality Research Institute of Beijing University of Science and Technology, introduced that the core courses of the major include five major categories: basic theory, computer, economic management, process industry and professional application.

　　"The discipline platform and core professional courses of the new major are by no means a simple superposition of existing professional courses, but rather breaking the barriers between disciplines, integrating multi-disciplinary content, integrating multi-disciplinary advantages. A large number of new courses have been built around the training goals of the new major, and new textbooks and courseware have been compiled." Mao Xinping emphasized.

　　Against the backdrop of a series of social and economic problems such as intensifying population aging bring new challenges to the country, Chongqing Medical University has established a new major in health and medical insurance. Qiu Jingfu, vice president of Chongqing Medical University, introduced that the new major takes the innovative talent training model of "school-enterprise cooperation and unity of knowledge and action" as the guiding ideology. The school has jointly developed professional courses and teaching resources with medical and health units, health management institutions, etc., to achieve the docking of professional teaching requirements with job skills requirements in the industry, and the docking of professional course content with professional standards.

　　"In addition to maintaining traditional and characteristic basic courses such as clinical medicine, management, and social security, we also keep up with the forefront of social and industry development, and strengthen interactive courses such as "health decision-making simulation experiment", "guarantee policy role-playing consultation meeting, "health insurance product design training" in the course setting." Qiu Jingfu said.

　　Longteng introduced that the school's cross-college disciplines bring together high-quality teaching staff, platforms and other educational resources to support the development of low-altitude technology and engineering majors, and has formulated a detailed plan: from 2024 to 2027, the overall strength of the major will enter a domestic advantageous position, serving the development of new quality productivity in the low-altitude economic field; from 2027 to 2030, first-class courses and high-level planning textbooks will be built around the frontier direction of low-altitude technology, and the overall level will reach the forefront of domestic first-class majors; from 2030 to 2035, around the frontier issues of the world's low-altitude technology, a leading professional theory and talent training system will be formed, and a world-class ranks will be entered.

　　"At that time, this major will continue to cultivate outstanding innovative talents for industrial development and change in the field of low-altitude technology." Long Teng said.

　　3. Achieve yourself in serving the country

　　The new major is the golden track of the future workplace and the growth ladder for achieving personal value.

　　"The major of integrated circuit science and engineering is the 'golden track' that supports the national strategy. The talent gap is huge and continues to expand." Lu Sheng listed a set of data. Surveys from relevant departments showed that the talent gap in my country's integrated circuit industry will reach 300,000 in 2025, while there are only more than 30,000 graduates in related disciplines every year, and the supply and demand imbalance is significant.

　　"The salary level of the integrated circuit industry is extremely competitive, far exceeding the traditional high-salary field, with an employment rate of nearly 100%. "In Lu Sheng's view, choosing the integrated circuit science and engineering major is not only a mission to devote itself to the national "bottleneck" technology breakthrough, but also a wise choice to seize the opportunities of high growth careers.

　　Mao Xinping analyzed that currently, relevant talents in the "dual carbon" major are divided into three dimensions - top-level design level, technology research and development level and carbon economy management and operation level, mainly distributed in government and policy research departments, pilot fulfillment enterprises, carbon emission exchanges, some financial institutions and scientific research institutes, etc.

　　"With the impact of the 'dual carbon' goal on various industries deepens, the demand for 'dual carbon' professional and technical talents in related industries will be in a booming state in the next 5-10 years. After research, we found that the number of enterprises requiring the control of carbon emissions in multiple industries such as metallurgy, materials and energy is about 8,000. The demand for 'dual carbon' talents is in the order of one million, and will continue to grow thereafter." Mao Xinping gave an example to point out that key enterprises such as China Steel Group, Minmetals Group, Baowu Group, Xianggang Group and China Carbon Exchange have more than 30,000 graduate students and above in the fields of "dual carbon" technology research and development, carbon consulting, carbon management, carbon assessment and carbon finance every year, which provides broad employment prospects and development space for graduates in carbon neutral science and engineering majors.

　　Through professional learning, fill the talent gap in the country's low-altitude field, and create a new world for personal career in the industry blue ocean; participate in the construction of China's international discourse system in the low-altitude economy, and complete the transformation from a technical "follower" to a standard "leader"; become a pioneer in cutting-edge fields such as drone logistics and urban air transportation, and seize the golden opportunity for career development...

　　"Integrate your youth dream into the grand blueprint of national development, and achieve the value of life by serving the country's low-altitude strategic needs and promoting the upgrading of low-altitude economic industries." In Longteng's mind, a beautiful blueprint has been drawn for the future of students.

[Editor in charge: Wang Qi]