Abstract: The integration of professional and innovation-entrepreneurship education represents a significant response of higher education to the innovation-driven development strategy and a vital manifestation of its profound self-transformation, emerging as a forefront issue in contemporary educational reform, holding crucial functions in reshaping the educational paradigm, deepening industry-education integration, and cultivating an innovation ecosystem. Specifically, the integration facilitates the deep coupling of knowledge systems with innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities, empowers the construction of a long-term collaborative mechanism between the education chain and the industry chain, and strengthens the sustainable foundation for serving national strategic needs. This integrated approach exhibits multidimensional characteristics--its value dimension reflected in the shared educational objectives and mutual relevance between professional education and innovation-entrepreneurship education; its domain dimension characterized by an interdisciplinary system involving multiple disciplines and possessing a cross-boundary nature; and its practical dimension emphasizing action and practical reform as important forces in enhancing the quality of integrated education. Following the principles of cross-boundary integration, deep learning, and practical transformation may achieve its educational goals. This entails enhancing the permeability of disciplinary and curricular boundaries to promote cross-boundary knowledge integration, constructing an ecological environment for integrated education to reshape the learning experiences of both teachers and students, and strengthening the connection between education and real-life contexts to highlight the inquiry-driven nature of education.

Key words: integration of professional and innovation-entrepreneurship education, professional education, innovation-entrepreneurship education, educational reform