After the grass-roots representative symposium, only a few days later, on September 22, General Secretary Xi Jinping hosted the seventh symposium on planning the "14th Five-Year Plan".
The themes of this forum focused on education, culture, health, and sports.
These several aspects have one thing in common, that is, "people's livelihood concerns."
↑At the symposium, 10 experts and representatives in the fields of education, culture, health, and sports spoke in succession.
(Photo: Xinhua News Agency reporters Liu Weibing and Rao Aimin)
Solving the problems of people's livelihood is the starting point and goal of our party's governance of the country.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period and even in the mid-to-long term of 2035, what new trends will the people's livelihood present and what new expectations do the people have?
How should we make new plans and produce new results?
This is a topic that General Secretary Xi Jinping has always paid close attention to and has been following up for a long time.
An important perspective is placed in front of the observer-the transformation of the main social contradictions.
"Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. The main social contradiction in our country has been transformed into a contradiction between the people's growing need for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development." It can be said that efforts are made to solve "unbalanced and inadequate development. Efforts to meet the "increasing needs of the people for a better life" is a key issue for economic and social development during the 14th Five-Year Plan.
Newcomers and new coordinates of the era
Education is a major plan for the country and the party.
When the talents cultivated during the 14th Five-Year Plan arrive at the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it will be the “year of the year” for executives and entrepreneurs.
Whether it can cultivate a century-old builder and a reliable successor to the party and the country is a test of the effectiveness of educational reform and development during the 14th Five-Year Plan.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech on education issues at the symposium revealed two key messages.
The first is to take Lide Shuren as the fundamental task of education, and cultivate new people of the era who will take on the responsibility of national rejuvenation in the new journey of accelerating the modernization of education.
The general secretary emphasized that "we must deepen the party's innovative theory study and education, promote the normalization and institutionalization of ideals and beliefs education, and strengthen party history, new China history, reform and opening up history, and socialist development history education."
Running the ideological and political class well is a matter of great concern to the General Secretary.
When presiding over a symposium for teachers of school ideological and political theory courses in March last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “The party and the state attach great importance to school ideological and political courses. When the secretary went to Hunan for inspection, he walked into the teaching site of ideological and political courses in elementary schools and universities.
↑On the afternoon of September 16, Xi Jinping had a cordial exchange with students in the ideological and political class at the first elementary school in Wenming Yao Township, Rucheng County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi
One branch and one leaf sends a clear signal-newcomers of the era must accurately understand China's new position in the new world pattern, do not forget their ancestors, and strive to know the direction.
Second, education is closely linked to the work of the party and the state.
For example, optimizing the education structure, discipline structure, and talent training structure that are compatible with the new development pattern; another example, based on serving the national regional development strategy, optimizing the allocation of regional education resources, and improving the level of regional development strategies for education services.
The urgent task of economic and social development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period is precisely the focus of talent training.
New height of cultural construction
The essence of culture accumulates the deepest ideals of the Chinese nation and represents the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation.
Whether Chen Xingcan, director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, talked about the origin of Chinese civilization at this symposium, or Fu Qiaomei, a researcher of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, talked about the study of ancient human genes at the symposium of scientists, it is clear that For more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, we should respect and think more.
↑ On September 22, Xi Jinping hosted a symposium on behalf of experts in the field of education, culture, health and sports in Beijing and delivered an important speech to listen to opinions and suggestions on economic and social development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
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At the symposium, the general secretary emphasized that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, we must place cultural construction in a prominent position in the overall work and earnestly grasp it.
Furthermore, he used four "important" to elaborate the coordinates of culture in the national economy and people's livelihood in the next five years-
Promote the overall layout of the “five in one” and coordinate the promotion of the “four comprehensive” strategic layout. Culture is an important content;
To promote high-quality development, culture is an important fulcrum;
Culture is an important factor to meet the people's growing needs for a better life;
To overcome various risks and challenges on the road ahead, culture is an important source of strength.
Cultural self-confidence is a more basic, deeper and more lasting force in the development of a country and a nation.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for the further prosperity and development of socialist cultural undertakings. The General Secretary has raised the importance of culture to an unprecedented height.
With the continuous improvement of living standards and the increasing spiritual needs, the people's requirements for the quality of cultural products are also getting higher and higher.
In the midst of a great change, the more important the development of the country, the more important the special role of culture.
New expectations for health needs
Entering the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, health has increasingly become a major livelihood and well-being concern of the people.
At this symposium, the general secretary proposed that the general public should be provided with fair and accessible, systematic and continuous health services such as prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and health promotion nearby.
Compared with the speech of the General Secretary at the "National Health and Health Conference" in August 2016, the word "nearest" was added.
The subtleties reflect the temperature of reform.
Starting from the medical services around us, making health more "accessible", and improving the quality of health and health supply and service levels, efforts should be endless.
In the fight against the epidemic, the general secretary proposed that "life is paramount, the people are paramount"; when formulating the national medium and long-term plan, the general secretary once again emphasized that "people's health should be given priority in the development strategy, and efforts should be made to ensure people's health in an all-round and full cycle."
360-degree, 365-day health protection is no easy task.
How to meet the people's growing health needs and new expectations?
At the symposium, the general secretary pointed out the direction to study and plan the healthy development of health during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. It is necessary to take the overall situation, take a long-term view, focus on the old problems and new challenges faced, and come up with practical measures to comprehensively promote the construction of a healthy China.
New Path to Sports Power
Sports is an important way to improve people's health.
Strong health requires strong sports.
In the field of sports, the general secretary clearly requested in the symposium: "To promote the advancement of health barriers, to establish a new model of sports promotion and health in which the sports, health and health departments cooperate and the whole society participates", "Coordinate the construction of national fitness facilities" and "To Adhere to the educational philosophy of health first"...
The reform and development of sports during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period requires efforts to promote the integration of sports and medical care, and the integration of sports and education.
To ensure the completion of the Tokyo Olympics and Beijing Winter Olympics and the completion of the task of hosting the games, and to better play the unique role of sports in the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
↑ On September 22, Xi Jinping hosted a symposium on behalf of experts in the field of education, culture, health and sports in Beijing and delivered an important speech to listen to opinions and suggestions on economic and social development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Weibing
Education, culture, health, and physical education are all very big and intertwined with each other.
Efforts should be made to run a satisfactory education for the people, so that the people can enjoy a more substantial, richer, and higher-quality spiritual and cultural life, accelerate the improvement of the quality of health and health supply and service levels, and coordinate the construction of national fitness facilities...
With regard to the people’s livelihood bullseye proposed at the symposium, as long as they are implemented one by one and work year after year, they will definitely be able to continuously enhance the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security, and promote new social undertakings. Motivation, create a new situation.
Planning: Huo Xiaoguang
Producer: Che Yuming
Coordinator: He Yuxin, Wang Min
Lead writers: Chen Fang, Wang Linlin
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