Recently, the Ministry of Education and the National Health Commission jointly issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Construction of Medical and Nursing Care and Management Majors in Higher Vocational Education" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), deploying the strengthening of the construction of medical and nursing care and management majors, accelerating the cultivation of professional talents combining medical and nursing care, and better meeting the multi-level and diversified health and elderly care needs of the elderly. The Notice emphasizes the need to strengthen the management of professional settings, support the hierarchical setting of majors, encourage schools with conditions to explore the integrated training mode of medical care, nursing and management majors, encourage ordinary undergraduate universities and higher vocational schools to establish professional assistance mechanisms, and promote the co construction and sharing of related majors. The Notice specifies that all regions should deepen the construction of professional connotations, optimize talent training programs, develop a batch of core courses, build a batch of high-quality teaching materials, cultivate excellent teacher teams, promote the reform of talent training models such as order based training, and promote the integration of industry and education, medical education collaboration, and school enterprise cooperation. The Notice requires that education and health administrative departments in various regions should organize and implement, coordinate and promote, encourage localities with conditions to provide support to newly established schools, medical and nursing care and management majors, etc., support smooth employment channels in various regions, and provide good career development opportunities for graduates. The reporter learned from the Ministry of Education that 10 provinces (regions, cities) including Beijing, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shandong, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Sichuan are key provinces for the construction of medical care and management majors. By the end of 2027, in principle, each key province should add no less than 3 new medical care and management majors, driving the overall improvement of the national medical care and management professional construction level. (New Society)