Abstract: Talent is the core strategic resource of Hunan Province to realize the“three highs and four new”strategy, and postgraduate education is an important way to provide talents for the development of Hunan Province. At present, the postgraduate education in Hunan Province has problems such as the difficulty of meeting the needs of the industry in the discipline structure of postgraduate training, insufficient innovation and practical ability of exporting graduate talents, and the low retention rate of fresh graduate talents. According to the deep-seated needs of the“three highs and four new”strategy, the improvement path of the reform of postgraduate education in Hunan Province is proposed, that is, optimizing the professional structure and training planning of postgraduate students in colleges and universities, strengthening the cultivation of postgraduate practical ability and innovation ability, and building a sustainable development ecology for postgraduate talents to stay in Hunan Province. The deepening of the reform of postgraduate education will provide a more sustainable talent guarantee for industrial upgrading and economic development in the province, and provide effective talent support for Hunan Province to implement the“three highs and four new”strategy and give it a new mission for development.

Key words: Postgraduate education reform, “Three highs and four new”strategy, Talent security, Graduate student quality, Graduate student training mode, Personnel training