China News Agency, Urumqi, June 23 (Reporter Sun Tingwen) Liu Yuguang, deputy director of the Xinjiang Education Department and press spokesperson, said in response to a reporter's question on the 23rd that Xinjiang has concentrated its efforts to solve some basic problems that have long restricted educational development. The basic conditions for accelerating the modernization of education.
On the same day, Xinjiang held a press conference on the interpretation of "Xinjiang Education Modernization 2035" and "Accelerating the Implementation of Xinjiang Education Modernization Implementation Plan (2018-2022)". The two documents were issued in mid-May this year.
Liu Yuguang shared a set of data at the press conference: As of the end of 2019, the gross enrollment rate of Xinjiang in the first three years of school reached 97.51%, the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education reached 95.51%, the gross enrollment rate of high school education reached 98.82%, and the gross higher education The enrollment rate reached 46.79%. In 2019, Xinjiang’s general public budget education investment exceeded 86.3 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), an increase of more than 4.7 billion yuan or 5.8% from 2018. At present, all age-appropriate children 4-6 years of age in Xinjiang can receive the first three years of education as close as possible. Compulsory education is guaranteed and fully implemented. Unemployed junior and high school graduates in Xinjiang have the opportunity to receive vocational education.
Liu Yuguang said that in recent years, Xinjiang has issued a series of policy documents in order to strengthen the control of dropouts, and urged the county to formulate a work plan for the control of dropouts within the county, continuously strengthening the main responsibility of the county government to control dropouts. Promote the full coverage of the nearest school without compulsory education, carry out verification and comparison of population data and poverty alleviation data, and encourage the return of students who drop out of school, weaving a network of full coverage of compulsory education. As of the end of 2019, the net enrollment rate of school-age children in Xinjiang reached 99.97%, and the net enrollment rate of school-age teenagers in junior high school reached 99.78%.
He said that since 2016, Xinjiang has recruited about 140,000 primary and secondary school and kindergarten teachers across the country. Continue to implement the cadre support program, internship support for college students, etc., and arrange for more than 20,000 teachers to support education each year.
In response to a reporter's question, Liu Yuguang said that the two documents issued together formed an implementation path and policy support for advancing the modernization of education in Xinjiang, and constructed a top-level design to guide the development of Xinjiang's education, which will lead Xinjiang's education to fill the shortcomings and improve Quality, accelerate the pace of modernization of education.
He also said that the development goals of education under the "Xinjiang Education Modernization 2035", among which the most closely related to the people should be 95% of the counties (cities, districts) of high-quality and balanced education by 2035. "At present, 69 counties (cities, districts) in Xinjiang have passed the national county compulsory education basic balanced development assessment and the coverage has reached 70.4%. In the next step, we will adopt various measures to ensure the realization of this goal. More Policies and funds will be tilted to the grassroots level, the school layout and basic school conditions will be more perfect, and the power of young people of all ethnic groups to enjoy quality education will be better guaranteed." (End)