| One of the major challenges facing Chinese universities in cultivating top-notch innovative talents is to build a system of higher general education that suits Chinese national conditions and development goals. This paper reviews the evolution process of the Japanese post-war general education system, including the introduction of the post-war general education system, the 1970s education reform, the benchmark outline reform of the university and the strategic development reform in the early 21st century, and analyzes its experience in building a “localized” system of general education in terms of institutional construction, normalized mechanism management, teaching mode, teaching content and teaching quality evaluation, so as to provide useful reference and implication for the reform of general education in Chinese universities. |
