China News Service, September 17th. According to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the General Office of the Ministry of Education jointly issued the "General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on the Development of Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival Farming Cultural Education Theme Activities "Notice" (hereinafter referred to as the notice).

The notice pointed out that in 3-5 years, we will strive to build a batch of Chinese farmers' harvest festival farming cultural practice education bases and form a batch of practice education activity brands.

Data map: Villagers are farming in terraced fields.

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  In order to implement the spirit of the Central Document No. 1 and the spirit of the relevant documents of the Central Government on the implementation of the Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance and Development Project, the Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival will be held well, the educational value of the agricultural festival will be fully utilized, and practical classrooms will be provided for the youth farming culture education. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Education decided to launch a cultural and educational theme activity for the Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival.

  The notice states that it is necessary to follow the characteristics of school age and cognitive laws of teenagers, coordinate agricultural culture, education and teaching resources, promote local schools to organize thematic education activities according to local conditions, and promote Chinese farmers' harvest festival to become a normal practice carrier of agricultural culture and education, and be included in party committees at all levels Important content of the government's harvest festival work.

  The notice also clarified five main tasks:

Extensive organization of theme education activities.

Educational administrative departments and schools should follow the rules of teaching at various stages and combine the characteristics of regional farming and folklore to organize students to go out of campus classrooms and into rural fields before and after the harvest festival, and carry out folk cultural field teaching, farming labor experience, and rural areas based on actual conditions. Investigations and other colorful agricultural cultural education practice activities.

Agriculture and rural departments should incorporate thematic activities into the key activities of the local harvest festival to support them.

The Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival Organization and Steering Committee will launch a batch of agricultural cultural practice education brand activities in due course.

Fully guarantee the subject education conditions.

The agricultural and rural departments should give full play to the advantages of the industry, work with the education administrative department, to dig in-depth practical education resources, make full use of agricultural parks, leading agricultural enterprises, agricultural research institutes and other practical places, and make full use of agricultural technology experts, non-genetic inheritors, rural craftsmen, Human resources such as folk artists, planting and breeding experts, actively coordinate modern agricultural machinery and equipment, agricultural science and technology laboratories, agricultural information facilities and other teaching equipment, establish and improve an open sharing mechanism, and provide guarantee for Chinese farmers' harvest festival agricultural cultural education.

Elaborately build a theme education practice base.

Agriculture and rural departments should work with educational administrative departments to build a group of safe and suitable farming cultural themes by relying on agricultural cultural heritage, national modern agricultural parks, advantageous areas of national characteristic agricultural products, national modern agricultural industrial parks, and national agricultural science and technology parks. Education practice base and research base.

With the base as an important support, promote the sharing of practical education resources and regional cooperation, and plan and design a batch of special research and education routes for agricultural festivals such as the Harvest Festival of Chinese Farmers.

Take advantage of agriculture-related general undergraduate schools and vocational colleges.

Agriculture-related colleges and universities should give full play to their professional advantages, actively participate in activities related to the Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival, take the responsibility of strengthening and rejuvenating agriculture, organize students to deepen the practice of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”, exercise and improve their overall quality and professional capabilities, and cultivate more knowledgeable farmers and loving agriculture New practical talents.

It is necessary to actively expand the ideas and concepts of running a school, combine the actual production and life, focus on the rural revitalization strategy, innovate social service projects, and build a platform for students to grow and become talents and start their own businesses.

Encourage schools to take advantage of the characteristics of their own source of students, actively connect with agricultural enterprises, cooperatives and other business entities, combine their professional expertise to carry out activities such as production labor, social services, and professional experience, and promote the deep integration of production and education.

Continuously strengthen the management of theme education activities.

All localities organize activities on the theme of farming culture and education on the Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival, and must formulate safety protection plans, strengthen organization and management, and ensure the safety of activities.

The agricultural and rural departments shall ensure the safety and applicability of the premises, facilities and equipment provided, and assign special personnel to be responsible for related work.

The education administration department is responsible for urging schools to implement safety responsibilities, and guiding schools to strictly implement activity plans and safety plans.

Schools must do a good job in pre-departure safety education and clarify the responsibilities of all parties involved in specific activities.

  At the same time, the notice also pointed out three safeguards:

Strengthen organizational leadership.

Local agricultural and rural departments and education administrative departments should strengthen coordination and cooperation, establish a normalized working mechanism, clarify the division of responsibilities, and include the Chinese farmers' harvest festival agricultural culture and education theme activities on the important agenda.

Strengthen service guarantee.

Local agricultural and rural departments should strengthen the integration of agricultural education resources, highlight the public welfare of agricultural culture and education theme activities, and actively explore the establishment of a practical education guarantee mechanism with education administrative departments, and encourage agricultural entities and schools to carry out practical education public welfare cooperation.

Strengthen publicity and guidance.

All localities should actively explore methods of practical activities, pay attention to summarizing typical experiences and practices, strengthen publicity and promotion, and play a leading and demonstrative role, so as to create a good atmosphere for the promotion of agricultural cultural education theme activities on the harvest festival of Chinese farmers.