作者：蒋姣荣 王少阳
　　【Abstract】This paper presents the topic of higher education， massification of higher education in China， development of higher education’s decisive role on China’s great-leap-forward development， educational reform to foster innovative talents， all of these research and conclusions shed light on why and how to conduct educational reform in China.
　　【Key words】educational reform; innovative education
　　【作者簡介】蒋姣荣（1988-），湖南邵东人，英国南安普顿大学市场管理专业硕士研究生，湖南工业大学，菲律宾亚当森大学教育哲学博士生;王少阳（1988-），安徽蒙城人，现就职湖南工业大学招生与就业指导处，湖南工业大学艺术硕士（MFA），菲律宾亚当森大学教育哲学博士生。
　　【基金项目】2016年度湖南省教育厅科学研究项目，《创新驱动发展战略下湖南高校文化创意产业人才培养研究》;项目主持人：王少阳;立项单位：湖南省教育厅;项目编号：16C0493。
　　Ⅰ. Introduction
　　China’s celebration of 70th anniversaries of National Day parade has successfully demonstrated China’s strength to the whole world; Huawei’s founder， Ren Zhengfei has repeatedly spoken in public that China’s future lies in its educational development， he said， in which teachers’ incomes and treatment should be improved so that top talents are willing to be teachers and let those top talents foster better talents to become men of tremendous promise. These two mentioned draw attentions to topics of China rise and educational reform.
　　Chinese government has set the strategy of “Revitalizing the Nation Trough Science and Education”， obviously， the whole country of China has elevated education to a strategic level.
　　Ⅱ. Massification of higher education in China
　　China is a big country in higher education， the number of college students and postgraduate students is about 7 million every year， and the number of postgraduate students is about 800，000， which predominantly occupies the largest number in the whole world （Niu etc. 2019）. With massification of higher education in China， a larger number of students could have opportunities to be recruited by university， the number and size of universities have a quick and enormous increase （Gao， 2018）. However， educational quality does not necessarily increase with the number of students enrolled， it can be said that massification of higher education reduces the quality of schooling.
　　Ⅲ. The key to realizing great-leap-forward development in China lies in innovative education
　　According to Ikenberry （2008）， the rise of China has attracted the world’s attention in recent years with its extraordinary economic growth， active diplomacy， massive foreign reserves and rapid and powerful military，， which it was said will “reshape the rules and institutions of international system to better serve its interests” and would be a growing security threat， which it was called “China-rise-threat theory”.