According to the "Opinions", China will fully implement hierarchical management and gradually improve the three-level management system of the state, provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and station-setting units. In the future, management agencies at all levels will perform their duties and do their own "internal affairs": "The national postdoctoral work management department is responsible for formulating the national postdoctoral work development plan, policies and regulations, management system, organizing the implementation of national key projects and funding plans, and carrying out the work of station establishment approval and exchange services; The provincial postdoctoral work management department is responsible for formulating the detailed rules for the implementation of postdoctoral work management in this province (autonomous regions and municipalities), and carrying out entry and exit management, funding, evaluation and service guarantee; The station unit is responsible for the recruitment, training, assessment, management and service of postdoctoral researchers. " By clarifying the division of functions at all levels, refining management tasks and improving management quality, we will not be absent or offside.
Hierarchical management is only a part of the reform of postdoctoral system and mechanism. In order to further stimulate the vitality of the system, the "Opinions" clearly stated that "the pilot of independent recruitment of postdoctoral research centers and the pilot of postdoctoral research mobile stations will be carried out, and the approval authority of the sub-stations of postdoctoral research centers in the park will be decentralized; At the same time, give full play to the main role of universities, research institutes and enterprises in the recruitment and training of postdoctoral researchers. " One of the measures is not to issue postdoctoral certificates across the board. "In addition to the special postdoctoral training program implemented by the state, the postdoctoral certificate of the research mobile station is issued by the station setting unit, and the postdoctoral certificate of the research workstation is issued by the provincial human resources and social security department." It can be seen that the new regulations are more flexible, pragmatic and operable, which embodies the spirit of post-doctoral system reform and the direction of post-doctoral personnel training.
The purpose of promoting mechanism reform is to cultivate talents. On the one hand, the Opinions strictly adhere to the "entrance", demanding that "leading cadres of party and government organs should not be recruited to engage in postdoctoral research", while opening the "exit" and demanding that "the conditions and procedures for postdoctoral researchers to leave the station be clarified", so as to truly recruit and stay those who are willing to study in a down-to-earth manner and devote themselves to research. In the future, the post-doctoral training in China will have a more international vision and cutting-edge level. The Opinions pointed out that it is necessary to "attract overseas doctors to China (return to China) to engage in postdoctoral research and improve the level of postdoctoral researchers participating in international academic exchanges." In order to ensure the "exit quality" of postdocs, the Opinions require "establishing a training system with scientific research plans as the main content and improving the postdoctoral performance evaluation system with innovative scientific research achievements as the core evaluation criteria", thus stimulating postdoctoral research interest and promoting scientific research innovation.
Doing a good job of service guarantee in all directions is another important content of the post-doctoral system reform. According to the "Opinions", postdoctoral researchers will "enjoy the treatment of the staff and workers of the station-setting units, and the station-setting units should sign employment contracts, enterprise labor contracts or work agreements with postdoctoral researchers according to the nature of the units, and pay social insurance premiums for postdoctoral researchers according to relevant regulations." The "Opinions" also pointed out that "the construction of postdoctoral apartments should be promoted, and local and station-setting units should be encouraged to adopt various ways to solve the problem of post-doctoral researchers' turnover in the station." This provision can be described as "reassuring" for postdoctoral researchers, which provides material guarantee for them to concentrate on scientific research. Not only that, the state will also increase the investment in "daily funds and research funds" for postdoctoral students and "support the establishment of postdoctoral venture funds where conditions permit"; At the same time, by guiding social funds to set up excellent postdoctoral incentive funds and venture capital funds, we will "encourage social capital investment" and "support postdoctoral researchers to innovate and start businesses, fund enterprise incubation and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and get corresponding returns". Guiding social capital investment not only solves the problem that some postdoctoral scientific research achievements can't find their husbands' families, but also encourages scientific research innovation.
At present, it is a critical period for the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation in the world, and it is also a decisive period for China to transform its economic development mode and build a well-off society in an all-round way. The "Opinions" came out at the right time. The new methods and measures proposed in the Opinions will solve the problems existing in the current postdoctoral training in China, such as rigid mechanism, disconnection between training and demand, and cultivate higher-level talents with a more flexible mechanism, in order to promote China's construction of a higher level.