◆ The proportion of national fiscal education expenditure in GDP has remained above 4% for many years, and the popularization of nine-year compulsory education has exceeded the average level of high-income countries, becoming the world's largest higher education country, and building the world's largest vocational education system 

  ◆ The number of drop-out students from poor families with established registration cards dropped from 200,000 to 0.

The solemn promise of "not letting a student drop out of school due to family financial difficulties" has been fulfilled

  ◆ Since 2012, 700,000 students have gone out of poverty-stricken areas and entered key universities through special admissions programs for key universities

  ◆ The education evaluation reform document issued for the first time in the name of the Party Central Committee. Only scores, only advancement, only diplomas, only essays, only hats and other stubborn diseases have begun to break the topic

  ◆ "From the time the first teacher was contacted by phone, in just a few hours, the team of teachers who participated in the construction of the video class of the'in-the-air classroom' were all assembled in 41 academic subjects."

  ◆ To build an education power, step by step towards a fairer and higher-quality education, is to satisfy the people, to adapt to the new situation of global education competition, and to cultivate newcomers who will take on the responsibility of national rejuvenation in order to achieve the second centenary. Strive goals lay a solid foundation and provide strong support

  "Building an educational power is a basic project for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and education must be given priority."

The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China issued a mobilization order to build an educational country.

  The prosperity of education leads to the prosperity of the country;

"Building a strong country in education" and "accelerating the modernization of education and running education that satisfies the people" is the inheritance and development of the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education. It is also an important historical mission given to education in the new era, and it has become the direction guide for educational reform and development.

  It is precisely because education is regarded as the foundation and priority of a strong country, and in accelerating the process of building a strong education country, we have identified the focus, systematically promoted, and focused on the development of China's education industry by leaps and bounds-national financial education funding The proportion of GDP has remained above 4% for many consecutive years. The popularity of nine-year compulsory education has exceeded the average level of high-income countries. It has become the world's largest higher education country and has built the world's largest vocational education system.

  Today, the overall development level of my country's education has leapt among the world's top ranks, and the popularization of education at all levels has reached or exceeded the average level of middle- and high-income countries, and China's overall education landscape is undergoing structural changes.

Fully implement the fundamental task of Lide Shuren

  Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important expositions on "training socialist builders and successors", profoundly answering the fundamental questions of who to train, how to train and for whom, and revealing profoundly The essential laws and value goals of education clearly reflect the requirements of the times and historical positioning of the party and the country for education.

  The morning sun passes through the clouds and fog, and the green bamboos in Jinggangshan, Jiangxi stand upright.

  On June 11, 2021, the 7th China International "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition "Youth Red Dream Building Journey" ("Red Travel" for short) was launched here, and young students from across the country set off from Jinggang Mountain to "day study" for a century of great achievement .

Over the years, the "Red Journey" activities have actively explored and explored the history and spiritual inheritance of the Red Party, guiding young students to inherit the red gene, strengthen their ideals and beliefs, and sharpen their practical skills in the study of Party history and ideology.

More than 3 million college students walked into the old revolutionary base areas, poverty-stricken areas and urban and rural communities to receive ideological baptism and strengthen practice.

  Watering the flowers and roots, nurturing people and minds.

  Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, education has been insisting on serving the people, serving the Communist Party of China in governance, consolidating and developing the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, serving reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, and regards the morality and cultivating of people as the key to education. Fundamental tasks, "Implementation Outline of Patriotic Education in the New Era", etc. have been launched successively, "Me and My Motherland" flash-mob, college teachers and students rapport and other activities, so that patriotism enthusiasm is more burst; the ideological and theoretical aspects of the school's ideological and political courses The ideological and political construction of courses in all colleges and universities and all majors across the country has been continuously improved. The National Textbook Committee is established to coordinate and guide the national textbook work to ensure the correct direction of textbook construction and give full play to Bacon’s role in creating souls and enlightening wisdom and wisdom. ; Strengthen and improve the school sports and aesthetic education in the new era, incorporate "labor" into the education policy, and promote the comprehensive development of students' morality, intelligence, physical education, and art...

  Curriculum ideological and political courses and ideological and political courses go in the same direction, support each other, and fully implement the fundamental task of Lide Shuren.

  Schools at all levels and types in our country continue to promote the innovative development of ideological and political education. A new pattern of integration of moral education in universities, middle schools and primary schools has gradually formed. The quality and level of ideological and political courses have been steadily improved. The team of ideological and political teachers has continued to grow, the structure has been continuously optimized, and the overall quality has been further improved. .

As of April 2021, the total number of full-time and part-time teachers of ideological and political courses in colleges and universities across the country registered in the library is 116,000.

  Comprehensively deepen the construction of new engineering, new medical, new agricultural, and new liberal arts to educate people for the party and the country.

  Accelerate the training of talents in shortage of science, engineering, agriculture and medicine, lay out the construction of a batch of future technical colleges, modern industry colleges, characteristic demonstration software colleges, energy storage colleges and other specialized colleges, and strive to cultivate excellence in adapting to and leading the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation Engineering talents.

In-depth implementation of the Basic Discipline Top-notch Student Training Program 2.0, my country has established 199 training bases for top-notch students in basic science, basic medicine, and basic liberal arts in 60 colleges and universities, focusing on cultivating future outstanding natural scientists, medical scientists and social scientists.

Launched the first batch of 407 new agricultural science research and reform practice projects, comprehensively strengthened farming education in agricultural colleges and universities, and cultivated new types of talents who know agriculture and love agriculture.

  The construction of teaching materials embodies the will of the country and is a state power, which is essential for cultivating qualified builders and reliable successors of socialism.

  Starting from the autumn semester in September 2017, the compulsory education ethics and the rule of law, Chinese, and history will be used in the first grade of primary and secondary schools.

In September 2019, the general high school three subject unified textbooks were also put into use.

The compilation of the three subject textbooks adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping’s thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, fully integrates into the core values ​​of socialism, strengthens Chinese excellent traditional culture, strengthens revolutionary culture and advanced socialist cultural education, etc., and lays a Chinese background and plant for the growth of students. Into the red gene, leading the next generation to grow into socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical education, and labor.

Not let a student drop out of school due to poverty

  "The number of students who drop out of school from impoverished families with registered cards has been reduced from 200,000 to 0." In September 2020, at a press conference of the State Council Information Office, Vice Minister of Education Zheng Fuzhi solemnly announced that my country's "guaranteed compulsory education goal has basically been achieved." ".

  Education is not only the transfer of knowledge and civilization, but also has the social responsibility of stopping poverty and promoting fairness.

To build a strong education country, we must make education more inclusive and realize the solemn promise of "not letting a student drop out of school due to family financial difficulties."

  In the new playground of Gaoyatou Primary School in Luanchuan County, Henan Province, located in the depths of Funiu Mountain, children shook diabolo, kicked shuttlecocks, and performed aerobics, cheering constantly.

  Luanchuan County has less than 0.6 acres of arable land per capita and is a typical mountainous county. In 2010, it was listed as a key county for poverty alleviation and development in the Qinba mountainous area by the State Council.

In order to "break the poor" and "uproot the poor" and block the intergenerational transmission of poverty, the education infrastructure here is continuously improved and the level of education is raised.

The new playground, multimedia classrooms, distance learning system, happy bookstore...the better and better learning environment makes the children in Luanchuan more motivated to learn.

  With the accelerated development of the integration of urban and rural compulsory education, 99.8% of compulsory education schools (including teaching sites) across the country meet the "20" bottom line requirements, 96.8% of county-level units have achieved a basic balance of compulsory education, and "large classes" basically Elimination, the study and living conditions of rural students have been greatly improved.

Statistics show that in 2020, the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education in poverty-stricken counties in my country will reach 94.8%, which is close to the national average.

  Children are at an important stage of growth and development, and nutrition must keep up.

The nutrition improvement plan for rural compulsory education students has covered 1,762 counties in 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, benefiting 40.608 million students.

In 2019, the average height of male and female students in each age group in the pilot area increased by 1.54 cm and 1.69 cm, respectively, and the average weight increased by 1.06 kg and 1.18 kg respectively, which was higher than the average growth rate of rural students across the country.

  To make up for the "shortcomings" of compulsory education, teachers are the key.

Special post programs, open recruitment, publicly funded teacher students, national training programs...Diversified rural teacher training supplements and training promotion mechanisms encourage more aspiring young people to go to rural areas and remote areas to contribute to the national education cause.

  As of 2020, 28 provinces across the country have implemented free education for local teacher students through various methods such as free enrollment and rebate on duty. Every year, more than 40,000 college graduates will teach in rural primary and secondary schools, especially in poor areas. The school has added a group of teachers who "can go, keep, and teach well".

  With better campuses and better teachers, children in poverty-stricken areas have a fairer opportunity.

In recent years, a long-term mechanism has been formed to ensure that students in rural and poor areas go to key universities, and the student funding policy system covering pre-school education to postgraduate education has been continuously improved. More and more children from rural families can share high-quality education and change their destiny through knowledge.

  Since 2012, 700,000 students have gone out of poverty-stricken areas and entered key universities through special admissions programs for key universities.

Since 2010, we have implemented the free training of rural order-oriented medical students, recruiting and training 64,000 undergraduate medical students for township hospitals in the central and western regions, helping education and health to alleviate poverty.

  Prioritize education, and my country's education universalization level has achieved a historic leap.

  In 2020, there will be 537,100 schools of all levels and types across the country with 289 million students. The level of education at all levels will reach or exceed the average level of middle- and high-income countries.

The gross enrollment rate of preschool education reached 85.2%, the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education reached 95.2%, and the gross enrollment rate of high school education reached 91.2%.

The gross enrollment rate of higher education reached 54.4%, entering the stage of popularization.

A modern education system for lifelong learning for all has been initially established, and important progress has been made in the construction of a learning society.

Educational reforms stimulate surging momentum

  Education is an important area for comprehensively deepening reforms. To solve the problems facing development and realize the people's expectations for better education, we must take the road of deepening reforms.

In recent years, focusing on important areas and key links, taking the evaluation reform as a guide, deepening the comprehensive reform of the education field has a clear direction and starting point:

  Promote the reform of the talent training model around the content of examination admissions, course content, innovative talent training, and technical skills talent training;

  Promote the reform of the school-running system around improving the development environment of private education, improving the vocational education integration system of production and education, implementing the autonomy of colleges and universities, and expanding the opening of education to the outside world;

  Promote the reform of the management system around the improvement of the balanced development of the compulsory education mechanism, the implementation of the provincial government's education coordination, the reform of the education monitoring and evaluation mechanism, and the promotion of the reform of the education supervision system;

  Promote the reform of the guarantee mechanism around the teacher management system, improve the investment guarantee mechanism, and improve the education information promotion strategy.

  ...

  Among the various reform measures, the college entrance examination reform is the focus of social attention.

  In September 2014, marked by the "Implementation Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Examination and Enrollment System" issued by the State Council, China sounded the clarion call for the most powerful round of reform of the college entrance examination since the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, and also outlined the college entrance examination in my country. A new blueprint for the system.

Improve the "categorized examination, comprehensive evaluation, and multiple admission" recruitment methods, improve the system and mechanism of "promoting fairness, scientific selection of talents, and effective supervision", and lay a more solid foundation for "selecting talents without sticking to one pattern".

  Educational evaluation is the "baton" of education and an important part of modern education governance.

In 2020, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "General Plan for Deepening Educational Evaluation Reform in the New Era", which will adhere to the important principles of "Insist on morality and foster people, keep in mind the mission of educating people for the party and for the country", focusing on the "five types of subjects." The policy design presents the specific path choice to implement the fundamental task of Lide Shuren in the reform of education evaluation in the new era.

This is the first education evaluation reform document issued in the name of the Party Central Committee since the founding of New China. It has broken the stubborn diseases such as only scores, only advancement, only diplomas, only papers, and only hats.

  Only reformers enter.

A series of policy measures have stimulated the surging impetus for the development of education.

  Deepen the reform of "delegation, control and service", implement and expand the autonomy of school management, accelerate the promotion of the rule of law and the management of schools, strengthen the function of supervision, supervision, evaluation and monitoring, and the enthusiasm for innovation and creativity in the education front is bursting out;

  Issue the first national standard for undergraduate professional teaching quality, implement the "six excellence and one top" plan 2.0, introduce the "40 points for higher education in the new era", deepen the reform of undergraduate education and teaching, and comprehensively improve the quality of personnel training, and accelerate the innovation and development of medical education. Opinions, undergraduate education and teaching reform continue to advance;

  Vigorously promote the construction of college textbooks, improve the three-level management system for college textbooks, lead and drive the construction of college philosophy and social science textbooks, and promote the same direction of curriculum textbooks and curriculum ideology;

  Actively adapt to the national strategy and the needs of economic and social development, adjust and optimize the professional structure, promote the strengthening of backbone majors in universities, create special advantages, upgrade and transform traditional majors, and eliminate majors that cannot meet social needs;

  Strengthen the training of doctoral students in major basic research, major scientific research directions, major engineering fields, and major social issues, closely combine to undertake major national and regional scientific research tasks, strengthen the original innovation capabilities of doctoral students, and accelerate the cultivation of leading talents and graduate students in the forefront of scientific and technological innovation The reform of the training mechanism is developing in depth;

  Focus on cultivating high-quality technical and technical talents, improve the modern vocational education system, establish the type of vocational education, and introduce reform measures such as undergraduate-level vocational education, industry-education-integrated enterprises, and "1+X" pilot projects, and vocational education reform is deepening step by step;

  Persist in openness and cooperation, deepen the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” education initiative, and sign agreements on mutual recognition of higher education degrees and degrees with 54 countries and regions, forming a more comprehensive, broader field, more levels, and more proactive education opening up. pattern.

  ▲Students from the Nine-Year Xingfu Jiayuan School in Semburi, Gongga County, Shannan City, Tibet, are moving new books (photographed on August 24, 2020) Sun Fei/ this publication

Let outstanding talents compete to teach

  "Can you hear me? Can you see the PPT? If you can, please reply 1." At 8 o'clock in the morning on February 4, 2020, Liu Xiaoqin, a mathematics teacher at the 12th Middle School in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province opened her first time Live classroom.

Although the 54 students in the class are not in the classroom, they are all ready to study and type "1" neatly on the screen.

  After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the vast number of teachers across the country faced difficulties and fought on the two fronts of fighting the epidemic and "suspending classes, non-stopping, and non-stopping", supporting the world's largest online education and making important contributions to the fight against the epidemic.

  "From the time the first teacher was contacted by phone, in just a few hours, all the teaching teams involved in the construction of the'air classroom' video class in 41 academic subjects were assembled." Tan Yibin, deputy director of the Teaching and Research Office of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, recalled.

  Teachers are the foundation of education and the source of education.

More than 17 million teachers in our country together constitute the world's largest education system.

  In January 2018, for the first time since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Party Central Committee issued a special document on teacher work, that is, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Comprehensively Deepening the Reform of Teacher Team Building in the New Era", which clearly stated that the work of teachers should be placed in the cause of education. Develop key support strategic areas, give priority to planning teacher work, give priority to guaranteeing teacher work input, give priority to meeting the needs of teacher team building, and propose a series of policies to improve the status of teachers.

  The country will be prosperous, and the teacher must be worthy of the teacher.

  The "Action Plan for the Revitalization of Teacher Education (2018-2022)" clarifies the construction drawings for the revitalization and development of teacher education in the new era, and various localities have introduced a series of practical measures in increasing the average allocation of teacher education students, strengthening the construction of education disciplines, and strengthening the quality of teacher education. , To promote the return of teacher education to the original intention.

  "Opinions on Strengthening the Educational Practice of Normal Students" and "Opinions on the Implementation of the Excellent Teacher Training Plan 2.0", upgrade the implementation of the "Excellent Teacher Training Plan", propose measures to comprehensively develop teacher ethics education, and accelerate the formation of a high-level teacher training system , To guide the majority of normal students to seek truth, learn and practice true skills, and train high-quality teachers from the source.

  Issued opinions on strengthening and improving the construction of teachers’ ethics in the new era, and issued a series of documents including the ten guidelines for professional conduct of teachers in colleges, primary and secondary schools, and kindergartens in the new era, marking the red line of teachers’ ethics and ethics; adding senior professional titles for primary and secondary schools to make breakthroughs in teachers "Ceiling" for career growth; improve the publicly funded teacher student policy, increase the average funding for teacher students, and establish a teacher professional certification system; carry out special supervision to ensure that the average salary level of compulsory education teachers is not lower than the average salary level of local civil servants; implement rural teachers Support the plan to fully implement the living subsidy policy for rural teachers in concentrated, contiguous and destitute areas; to reduce the unreasonable burden on teachers in primary and middle schools...

  A series of policies and measures have been introduced intensively, striving to create a team of high-quality professional and innovative teachers satisfied with the party and the people, improve the political, social, and professional status of teachers, and promote the formation of outstanding talents who are eager to teach, and all teachers can show their talents. , Good teachers continue to emerge in a good situation.

  ▲Zhaixia Central Primary School, Yuanzhou District, Yichun City, Jiangxi Province, students play by the flower field (photographed on November 9, 2020) Photograph by Peng Zhaozhi/ this magazine

Start the implementation of the education power promotion project

  After a century of rushing rivers, we have come to a critical period of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

  There is still a long way to go to build a strong education country: there is still a significant gap in education development between regions, urban and rural areas, the level of equalization of basic public education services needs to be improved, the talent training structure and social needs need to be strengthened, the integration of production and education, science and education The system and mechanism of integration are not yet sound, the characteristics of universities are still not clear enough, the tendency of homogeneous development is prominent, and the vitality of innovation has not yet been fully released.

  In May 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued the "Implementation Plan for the Promotion of Educational Power in the Period of the 14th Five-Year Plan" to start the implementation of the Educational Power Promotion Project.

  "Adhere to the people-centered development concept, promote fairness, improve quality, and service development, further focus on the key and highlight the key points, make up for the shortcomings of basic education, build high-quality vocational education, create first-class higher education, and play the role of precise investment support and leverage , Comprehensively improve the internal quality of the education system, comprehensively enhance the people's sense of education, and comprehensively enhance the ability of educational services to lead economic and social development." The implementation plan centers on the three major sections of basic education, vocational education, and higher education, and puts forward clear requirements.

  Basic education focuses on making up for shortcomings.

Concentrated support for 832 counties in the original concentrated contiguous areas and counties for poverty alleviation and development work outside the area, especially the former deeply impoverished areas such as the "three districts and three states", and centralized resettlement areas for poverty alleviation and relocation, etc., with compulsory education as the focus, Coordinate the construction of pre-school education, expand the supply of degrees, consolidate the achievements of education in poverty alleviation, and block the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

  Vocational education focuses on the establishment of high-quality products.

Focus on supporting a number of vocational colleges and application-oriented undergraduate colleges to build high-level, professional, and open production and education integration training bases, and promote relevant colleges and universities to meet the needs of economic and social development, innovate training models, optimize training structures, and create a batch of high-quality products Vocational colleges promote the overall improvement of the quality of vocational education, effectively enhance the talent support for industrial upgrading and regional development, and strive to build a vocational education system with Chinese characteristics.

  my country's higher education focuses on creating first-class.

In recent years, my country’s higher education has moved towards a connotative development path: facing the frontiers of world science and technology, facing the main economic battlefield, facing major national needs, facing people’s lives and health, targeting key core technologies, especially the "stuck neck" problem, and strengthening "double first-class" colleges and universities Disciplinary infrastructure and large-scale equipment construction; layout and construction of a batch of national innovation platforms for integration of industry and education and joint training bases for graduate students of integration of industry and education.

Optimize the layout of higher education resources, promote regional coordinated development, support the relocation of a batch of central universities in Beijing to Xiongan New District, support the construction of a batch of universities in southern Xinjiang, and support the construction of a batch of local undergraduate universities in the central and western regions.

Support the construction of a number of high-quality medical schools, focusing on building a number of high-level public health schools.

Support the construction of a batch of high-quality normal colleges and universities, and focus on building a batch of normal education bases.

  To achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, in the final analysis depends on talents and education.

To build an education power, step by step towards a fairer and higher-quality education, is to satisfy the people, to adapt to the new situation of global education competition, to cultivate newcomers who are responsible for national rejuvenation, and to strive for the realization of the second century. The goal is to lay a solid foundation and provide strong support.

(Reporter Hu Hao)