The prospect and exploration of higher electronics education in the 21st century

The technology of electronic information is coming to the fore in the world of advanced science and technology. It is widely applied not only in the economic field, but also in social life. In the 21st century, our world will become an information and intelligence society. It is also the critical period for the realization of China's modernization. China needs enough qualified professionals in electronic information science. Professionals in all the other specialities need to be equiped with the required knowledge and skills of electronic information science and technology. So the knowledge of the professionals specializing in electronics needs to be renewed, too. The paper discusses how China's higher electronics education (HEE) will reform and develops some tentative ideas and measures of HEE in the 21st century in China; it also discusses training high quality applied personnel and points out how these may serve the economic construction and social development better.<>