China News Service, June 18, according to the Ministry of Education website, a few days ago, the "Ministry of Education and other eight departments on accelerating and expanding the opening up of the new era of education" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions") was officially issued. The "Opinions" put forth efforts to break the barriers of institutional mechanisms, increase the reform of Sino-foreign cooperative education, improve the operation of universities abroad, reform the school's foreign affairs approval policy, and continue to promote reforms involving overseas students, foreign students, foreign experts and foreign teachers.

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  The "Opinions" focused on the deployment of education in the new era to the outside world. The first is to implement the requirements of comprehensively deepening reform in the opening up of education to the outside world; the second is to place the cultivation of talents with global competitiveness in an important position. The "Opinions" propose to enhance the international competitiveness of my country's higher education talent training and accelerate the cultivation of high-level international talents with a global perspective. Promote more open and smooth vocational education, and accelerate the construction of a vocational education system with Chinese characteristics at an internationally advanced level. Improve the level of opening up of basic education to the outside world, and cultivate young people in the new era with an all-round development of moral, physical, mental and physical skills and an international perspective.

  The third is to promote the opening up of education to achieve high-quality connotative development. The "Opinions" propose to optimize the layout of studying abroad, strengthen the "study in China" brand, deepen international cooperation in education, encourage mutual recognition of Chinese and foreign credits, and mutual granting of degrees, and expand the international radiating power of online education. At the same time, through the "Internet +" "intelligence +" and other means to enrich the supply of high-quality foreign education resources for weak schools in the central and western regions.

  Fourth, actively contribute to the international community's education governance China program. The "Opinions" propose to create an upgraded version of the "Belt and Road" education action, expand the supply of international public goods in education, deepen cooperation with important international organizations, and promote the implementation of the United Nations "2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" education goals; establish international curriculum development and promotion with Chinese characteristics System, optimize the international communication of Chinese, and support more countries to carry out Chinese teaching.

  The person in charge of the International Department of the Ministry of Education (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Office) said that the "Opinions" focused on accelerating the modernization of my country's education and cultivating more globally competitive talents, and made corresponding arrangements for the opening up of education at all levels.

  In the field of higher education, it will support universities to strengthen cooperation with world-class universities and academic institutions, guide universities to accelerate the cultivation of high-level international talents with a global perspective, and improve the evaluation indicators of universities opening to the outside world. Further implement the requirements of "delegating service", granting "double first-class" construction colleges with certain foreign affairs approval rights, and exploring management methods for colleges and universities to classify and approve international meetings.

  In the field of vocational education, policy breakthroughs will be made in drawing on the "dual system" and other school models and introducing high-quality vocational education resources from abroad, and encourage qualified domestic vocational colleges and enterprises to join hands in international production capacity cooperation. At the same time, we will start to build “Belt and Road” international skill competitions and other branded events to expand the international influence of domestic skill events. Implement the overseas training plan for the teaching innovation team of vocational college teachers.

  In the field of basic education, it will strengthen the education of international understanding in primary and secondary schools, help students establish a sense of community of human destiny, and cultivate young people in the new era with an all-round development of virtue, wisdom, physical beauty and labor and an international perspective.

  The person in charge said, "In recent years, we have actively introduced overseas high-quality educational resources, encouraged Chinese and foreign educational institutions to carry out strong cooperation or strong cooperation, and realized the diversification of educational resource supply to meet the students’ high-quality international education without going abroad. Demand." At present, there are nearly 2,300 Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools and projects at all levels approved and filed by the Ministry of Education, of which nearly 1,200 are undergraduate or higher.

  In order to speed up and expand the opening of education to the outside world and help the construction of "double first-class" in colleges and universities, the "Opinions" will intensify the reform of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools from the three aspects of "improving the legal system", "innovating the working mechanism" and "encouraging the first trial".

  The person in charge said that since the outbreak of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, the Ministry of Education has continued to do a good job in epidemic prevention guidance, material security, patient treatment, psychological support, difficult assistance, and safety protection, and does its utmost to protect the vital interests and legal rights of the vast number of overseas students. With the arrival of the graduation season, the Ministry of Education has released recruitment information and preferential policies for overseas students in a timely manner, and adopted a combination of online and offline methods to organize recruitment activities for the vast number of overseas students. The 15th "Chunhui Cup" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for Chinese Overseas Students Start online as scheduled.

  "The impact of the epidemic on studying abroad will be temporary." The person in charge pointed out that the "Opinions" reiterated that it will continue to train all kinds of talents needed for China's modernization through the channels of studying abroad, and will actively explore cooperation channels for high-quality educational resources and expand studying abroad. space. At the same time, safeguarding the legitimate and practical interests of overseas students has always been a matter of concern to the party and the country, and the majority of overseas students and parents. "We will adhere to the development concept of "people-centered", make great efforts to improve the "safe study abroad" mechanism, and further institutionalize and normalize the effective methods found in the process of the epidemic to realize the dream of studying abroad for Guangxi University students Escort."