Study on the Entrepreneurship Education Reform in China’s Universities

Abstract

Entrepreneurship education is an exploring educational activity, which enables educatees to innovate, develop or expand in the socioeconomic, cultural and political fields, and also provide opportunities to others and the society. With the socio-economic development, industrial structure adjustment and the urbanization process accelerated, the pressure of unemployment is becoming increasing obvious. This has become a indisputable fact. Therefore, the reform and the implementation of entrepreneurship education in universities have become the main approach by which universities can train a large number of talents who owe the entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial capacity, accelerate economic development and lower employment pressures. This paper starts from discussing the background and the meaning of carrying out entrepreneurship education in Chinese universities, then analyzes the current status of entrepreneurship education. Finally we discuss the countermeasures to carry out the entrepreneurship education in Chinese universities from the following aspects: setting up a corect entrepreneurial idea, improving the teachers’ academic level, reforming a new training methods, setting up entrepreneurship centres, etc.