Recently, the deployment meeting for accelerating the adjustment and optimization of disciplinary and professional settings, and deepening the reform and innovation of higher education in Shandong Province was held in Jinan. The meeting requires a profound understanding of the extreme importance and practical urgency of promoting higher education reform and innovation, and improving the comprehensive level of higher education from a strategic and global perspective. We must firmly deepen higher education reform and innovation, accelerate the optimization of disciplinary and professional layout, and effectively accumulate competitive advantages and development momentum for Shandong to "walk ahead and shoulder the big beam". The meeting emphasized the need to make every effort to promote the implementation and effectiveness of various tasks in higher education reform and innovation, focusing on four key areas: layout optimization, supply-demand adaptation, deep integration, and reform and opening up. We should play the "first move" in expanding and improving quality, proactively expand high-quality resources, deepen the development of classified characteristics, and resolutely win the breakthrough battle of "Double First Class"; We will take the initiative in adjusting disciplines and reforming training models, and make extraordinary arrangements for urgently needed and scarce disciplines and majors. We will accurately guide the adjustment of discipline and major settings and enrollment scale, adhere to pilot projects first, deepen the integration of industry and education, and build a high-quality talent training system; Shaping "new advantages" in supporting technological innovation and industrial development, consolidating the support of integrated innovation platforms, strengthening organized scientific research and breakthrough, and connecting the chain of achievement transformation; Pioneering a "new path" in stimulating power and vitality, building a talent highland with a better ecology, advancing governance reform at a deeper level, expanding open collaboration with a higher position, and promoting digital intelligence empowerment with a more forward-looking vision. (New Society)