Packaging education reform needs attention

Since the beginning of reform and opening up, the annual output value of China's packaging industry has increased at a high rate of 18.65% and reached 220 billion yuan in 2001. It has become one of the pillar industries in the national economy. The development and growth of the packaging industry has benefited from the implementation of the Party's strategy of "strengthening the country through science and education". China's packaging higher education, which began to develop in 1985, has cultivated a large number of packaging technology talents that are urgently required by the country and made indelible contributions to the development of China's packaging industry. However, in the process of setting up a packaging engineering major, both successful experience and education. Faced with the rapid advancement of science and technology and the unstoppable development trend of economic globalization, a serious and sharp tax issue is before us: How will China's packaging industry continue to maintain rapid growth in the next 20 years? The packaging education department is responsible for cultivating packaging science and technology personnel for the country. The information age, scientific and technological progress, and knowledge economy put forward higher requirements for the overall quality of packaging professionals. They not only need to have solid basic knowledge, but also have certain Innovative ability, practical ability, and ability to quickly learn a new knowledge. Packaging higher education must adapt to the development of packaging in our country and accomplish its own glorious mission. It must increase the intensity of teaching reforms. At the same time, it also needs the attention and support of the whole society, especially the packaging industry.
1. Reform of teaching content in packaging
Improving the overall quality of packaging students and cultivating their innovative ability is one of the important goals of higher packaging education reform. To achieve this goal, we must carry out teaching content reforms. Students can learn solid basic theory and new professional knowledge while they are in school. At the same time, there are certain new disciplines such as information science, life sciences, materials science and nanotechnology that will have a major impact on future development. The understanding of this requires that the construction of packaging materials must be carried out dynamically to prevent the content from aging.
The packaging engineering education has published two sets of textbooks, which have played an important role in the development of packaging higher education. Over the past 18 years since the specialty was set up, the level of technology, equipment, and technology of the packaging industry in China have changed greatly. Widely used computer technology, packaging information network has been established; eco-friendly, environmentally friendly packaging materials have developed rapidly, and anti-static, anti-electromagnetic and invisible special packaging materials developed using nanotechnology have been introduced one after another; reflecting the trend of packaging design and digital plate making The equipment is of concern; the application of carton die-cutting CAD/CAM system eliminates the old craftsmanship; the box-making production line integrating printing, die-cutting, folding and gluing, and the high-speed, multi-functional, fully automatic packaging production line The launch of the system has eliminated the backwardness of manual or semi-mechanized operations in box making and packaging operations. However, these new technologies, new processes, new materials, and new equipment that have appeared in the packaging industry have not been reflected in the textbooks of the two packaging systems. Although the publication of textbooks requires a certain period of time, some of the contents are aged and lagging behind, but the fundamental reason is that many units use technical secrecy on advanced equipment (especially imported equipment) and technical materials, so that it is too difficult to collect materials in writing materials.
2. Cultivate the practical ability of packaging students
Cultivating the practical ability of packaging engineering students is also an important part of packaging higher education reform and improving their overall quality. The cultivation of students' practical ability requires a series of practical teaching steps to guarantee. Such as curriculum experiments, curriculum design, and production internships can be conducted at the school's laboratories and production practice bases. However, increasing students’ perceptual knowledge of the packaging profession, understanding the basic conditions of equipment, processes, and production management of packaging companies, and cultivating students' ability to analyze problems and solve problem-solving skills can only be accomplished successfully with the help of social forces. However, in the course of guiding practice teaching, almost all colleges and universities have encountered a lot of trouble and many problems in the packaging profession. Many companies are reluctant to accept safe production and they are only welcome to visit. They cannot accept hands-on training, or they can only contact small and medium-sized packaging companies with obsolete equipment and relatively backward technology. As a result, practice teaching cannot be achieved. The intended purpose. Therefore, solving the internship problem also requires strong support from the packaging industry and the entire society.
3, set the packaging professional training direction
With the rapid development of packaging science and technology, the requirements for packaging education are also changing. Setting up the training direction of the packaging engineering profession first needs to consider the social needs, and secondly, it must take care of the characteristics of the disciplines. The curriculum should be strengthened with a professional foundation and widen the professional caliber. However, in the process of setting up the packaging engineering profession, in the process of setting up a professional in some units, some units did not attach importance to the characteristics of the disciplines in setting professional orientation, so that the orientation of the students in the training was not clear; some units did not meet the needs of society in setting professional orientation. As a result, graduates have difficulty finding employment and have to suspend their rectification. Other graduates who are unit-training have poor practical ability and lack of professionalism, so employers are not welcome.
Packaging companies are the first line of organization and packaging production. They have the most say in the knowledge structure, comprehensive quality, and various capabilities of packaging professionals. Whether the packaging graduates who are out of the university's doors can adapt to the development of the packaging industry in China will be tested in practice. In order to cultivate the backbone of well-trained packaging technology, the packaging industry and the society as a whole should give strong support and attention to the orientation and curriculum of the packaging profession.
4, Packaging education and packaging companies should cooperate with each other
Whether it is the competition between countries, or the competition between enterprises and enterprises, it is still the competition of talents. In order to ensure the sustained growth of the national economy in the next 20 years, the Party Central Committee and the State Council are far-sighted and have taken a strategic and wise decision to “expand the scale of higher education in China and improve the quality and level of higher education”. Packaging higher education is an integral part of our country's higher education. The development of packaging higher education and raising the level of education will undoubtedly be crucial to the sustainable development of China's packaging industry in the future. Therefore, leaders and entrepreneurs at all levels of the packaging industry with strategic vision should also pay close attention to the development of packaged higher education, and seek technical support from universities as enterprises to promote scientific and technological progress. The school through the cooperation between factory and school, can be combined with packaging companies to set or adjust the professional direction, supplement or update the teaching content, arrange for internships and other teaching links. Graduation practice can choose targeted design issues, solve problems for packaging companies, "swords and real guns" to engage in graduation design. This can not only overcome the shortcomings of disjointed learning, but also effectively cultivate students' practical ability, innovation ability and knowledge-seeking ability. Only in this way can it be possible to deliver high-quality packaging and scientific talents to the packaging industry, so that the packaging education sector and packaging companies can enter into a virtuous circle of mutual support and common development.