Thoughts on Reforms in Cultivating Science Talents in a Local Comprehensive University

A local comprehensive university must be supported with its solid foundation in science, and is usually judged by the criterion whether it can turn out high-quality science talents who can orient themselves to social developments. However, the traditional and unitary goal and pattern of talent cultivation cannot meet the present development requirements at all. Therefore, local comprehensive universities should carry out reforms in cultivating talents in accordance to their cultivation aims, promoting crossover of different disciplines to form comprehensive advantageous position of sciences; deepen reforms in teaching and improve the quality of science talents cultivation; explore new patterns of teachers training with a view to cultivating advanced teachers of sciences; develop applied science majors to cultivate interdisciplinary talents needed in society.