National Characteristic Specialty Construction Point, Jiangsu Province, the key specialties, graduates can be engaged in food processing related enterprises and institutions, research institutes and related management, but also can be examined or go abroad for further study.

This program is designed to train senior engineers and technicians who can be engaged in the management of food production technology, quality control, business management, product development, engineering design and other tasks in higher education, related research institutions, or in the distribution, processing, import and export of food products, health supervision, food quality supervision and management departments. At the same time, it also conveys qualified talents for the cultivation of postgraduate students.

Development Prospects

As one of the three pillar industries, the food industry is still facing a serious shortage of talents, especially high-level talents are far from enough. According to incomplete statistics, China's food industry specialists accounted for only 3-4% of the total number of employees, with a master's degree, doctoral degree in food science and technology personnel is even more scarce. At the same time, the food talent imbalance across the country, many county-level small factories do not even have specialized food technicians.

All of the above and in the country's various industrial sectors in the list of total output value of the top of the list of the first major industry is extremely disproportionate to the status. And look overseas, the western developed countries, food specialists in the total number of employees in the proportion of up to 20% or more.

This is because the developed countries attach great importance to the cultivation of food personnel, almost all well-known universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Wisconsin University, the University of Tokyo, Japan and the University of Cambridge, UK, are equipped with a Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences. Therefore, China vigorously develop higher food professional education, training the industry scientific and technological talents has been the situation is urgent, can not be ignored.