Departments of Education (Commissions), Offices of Cyberspace Affairs, Development and Reform Commissions, Science and Technology Departments (Committees, Bureaus), Communications Management Bureaus, Civil Affairs Departments (Bureaus), Finance Departments (Bureaus), Culture and Tourism Departments (Bureaus) of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government , Market Supervision Bureau (Department, Commission), Sports Bureau, Education Bureau of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Cyberspace Affairs Commission, Development and Reform Commission, Science and Technology Bureau, Civil Affairs Bureau, Finance Bureau, Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, Market Supervision Bureau, Chinese People's The Bank's Shanghai headquarters, all branches and business management departments, all central sub-branches in provincial capital cities, all sub-provincial city central sub-branches, all banking and insurance regulatory bureaus, all dispatched offices of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and all exchanges:
Since the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Further Reducing the Burden of Homework and Off-campus Training for Students in the Compulsory Education Stage", the management of off-campus training in disciplines has achieved positive results. The problem of non-disciplinary off-campus training (hereinafter referred to as non-disciplinary training) for pre-children) is prominent, which is mainly reflected in incomplete qualifications, irregular training behaviors, and uneven training quality. The people have strongly responded to this.
In order to further deepen the governance of off-campus training institutions, comprehensively regulate non-disciplinary training behaviors, and earnestly protect the rights and interests of primary and secondary school students and their parents, the following opinions are hereby offered.
1. General requirements
1. Guiding ideology
Adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, fully implement the party's education policy, implement the fundamental task of cultivating people, adhere to the people-centered development thinking, and persist in reform and innovation , comprehensively standardize non-disciplinary training, make it a useful supplement to school education, further reduce the burden of students' excessive training outside the school, and promote students' all-round development and healthy growth.
2. Working principle
Persist in serving and educating people.
Adhere to the direction of running a socialist school, strengthen the public welfare attributes of non-disciplinary training, focus on improving the quality of training, and promote it to play a positive role in the development of students' interests and talents and the development of comprehensive quality.
Be problem-oriented.
Comprehensively use administrative, economic, and legal means to focus on solving outstanding problems in standards, prices, safety, and quality, strengthen policy publicity and interpretation, improve the level of governance of off-campus training, and effectively respond to the urgent needs of the people.
Adhere to internal and external linkage.
Coordinating inside and outside the school, strengthening the main role of school education, implementing the requirements for the comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical education, art and labor, increasing the supply of non-disciplinary learning, simultaneously deepening the management of non-disciplinary training, and meeting the diverse needs of students more extensively.
Adhere to departmental coordination.
In view of the characteristics of the non-discipline training industry, such as outstanding attributes and various types, we will improve the coordination mechanism under the unified leadership of the local party committee and government, and all departments will work together, cooperate efficiently, and cooperate closely to form a joint governance force and improve governance efficiency.
3. Work goals
By the end of June 2023, non-discipline training policy and system systems in various regions will be basically established, the normalized supervision mechanism will be basically sound, and the outstanding problems that the people have strongly complained about will be basically resolved.
By 2024, the governance of non-disciplinary training will be effective, the burden of household expenditure will be effectively reduced, non-disciplinary training will become a useful supplement to school education, and the people's satisfaction with education will be significantly improved.
2. Clearly set standards
4. Develop setting standards.
All localities should distinguish training institutions in sports, culture and art, science and technology, etc., and specify the corresponding competent departments.
Provincial competent departments should take the lead in formulating the basic setting standards for corresponding types of online and offline training institutions in light of local conditions.
If the situation of offline training institutions in various cities within the province varies greatly, the provincial competent department can put forward the bottom line requirements, authorize the prefectural and municipal competent departments to formulate detailed standards on this basis, and file with the provincial competent department.
For institutions that carry out various non-disciplinary training, they should also meet the setting standards for all types of businesses involved.
5. Clarify the bottom line requirements.
The standards of non-disciplinary training institutions in various places must meet the following basic requirements.
In terms of training site conditions, it must comply with national laws, regulations and policy requirements on fire protection, housing construction, environmental protection, sanitation, and food management.
In terms of teacher qualifications, the personnel employed for training must have corresponding occupational (professional) abilities in sports, culture and art, science and technology (specifically specified by the competent department above the provincial level) or have corresponding teacher qualification certificates. On-the-job teachers in primary and secondary schools (including on-the-job teachers in private primary and secondary schools), the employment of foreign personnel must comply with relevant state regulations.
In terms of operating conditions, there must be standardized regulations and corresponding management systems.
Online institutions should also meet the relevant standards of network security.
6. Comprehensive benchmarking and rectification.
All localities should set standards against non-disciplinary training institutions, conduct a comprehensive investigation of existing institutions, and rectify those that do not meet the set standards.
Training institutions that cannot complete rectification by the end of June 2023 will be severely dealt with in accordance with laws and regulations.
3. Strict access process
7. Publish the manifest directory.
All localities should refine and publish the list of training categories in various industries, and make dynamic adjustments in a timely manner according to emerging training types.
For situations such as carrying out multiple types of training at the same time, it is necessary to specify the main supervisory department and relevant coordinating departments.
Education administrative departments should strengthen overall planning and coordination to avoid regulatory blind spots.
8. Clear access procedures.
According to the "Private Education Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China" and relevant regulations, all localities have further improved the management procedures of non-disciplinary training institutions.
Non-discipline online training institutions must obtain administrative licenses from relevant provincial authorities in accordance with the law, then register as a legal person in accordance with the law, and go through the Internet information service approval procedures with the local provincial telecommunications authorities.
Non-discipline offline training institutions must obtain administrative permission from the relevant county-level competent department before registering as a legal person in accordance with the law; if they conduct offline training across counties, they must obtain administrative permission from the relevant competent department in each county according to the law.
For institutions operating a variety of non-disciplinary businesses, the main regulatory department may take the lead in implementing joint departmental audits.
In areas where the reform of relatively centralized administrative licensing rights is implemented, it is necessary to strengthen the coordination of supervision and management between departments, implement supervision responsibilities, and prevent supervision blind spots or supervision conflicts.
4. Standardize daily operations
9. Standardize the training content and time.
Non-disciplinary training content should be adapted to the age, physical fitness, and cognitive level of the training object, conform to the physical and mental characteristics and educational laws, and meet the multi-level and diversified learning needs of students, and no subject-related training content should be provided.
Fully implement the "Management Measures for Off-campus Training Materials for Primary and Secondary School Students (Trial)", strengthen the whole-process management of training materials, strengthen the review, filing management, and random inspection of training materials to ensure the correct direction of training.
The training time should not conflict with the teaching time of local primary and secondary schools. The end time of offline training should be no later than 20:30, and the end time of online training should be no later than 21:00.
10. Strengthen charge management.
Non-discipline training institutions must adhere to the nature of public welfare, follow the principles of fairness, legality, and honesty, and reasonably determine charging items and standards based on factors such as training costs and market supply and demand, control the frequency and range of price adjustments, and report to the competent authority.
All localities can explore methods such as establishing price control intervals and publishing average training costs to guide training institutions to set reasonable prices.
The fees charged by training institutions should be clearly marked, and information such as training content, training duration, charging items, charging standards, etc. should be disclosed to the public and subject to social supervision.
Any form of price fraud such as fictitious original price and false preferential discount is prohibited.
All localities should establish and improve the non-disciplinary training market monitoring system, focusing on strengthening the monitoring of sports, art and other non-disciplinary training fees widely participated by primary and secondary school students.
11. Strengthen the supervision of advance fees.
The training fees of non-disciplinary training institutions are managed by designated banks, special accounts, and special funds.
The fees charged by training institutions should all be entered into the special account of the institution for charging, and other accounts of the institution or accounts other than the institution shall not be used to collect training fees, and the charging account shall be disclosed to the public.
Non-disciplinary training for primary and secondary school students shall not use training loans to pay training fees.
Encourage training institutions to provide training services first and then charge for operation. If pre-fee is adopted, the pre-fee of training institutions should be fully included in the scope of supervision. According to work needs, all localities will adopt bank custody and risk deposits to conduct pre-fee charges for training institutions. Risk management and control.
Within the scope of banks selected and designated by the competent department, the training institution selects and determines the regulatory bank, signs a regulatory agreement and files with the competent department, opens a special account for custody of pre-fee funds or a special account for risk margin, and manages the pre-fee funds separately from its own funds .
Training institutions shall not collect fees at one time or in disguised forms such as recharges and sub-cards for a time span of more than 3 months or 60 class hours, and shall not exceed 5,000 yuan.
Training institutions should actively submit or authorize the custodian bank to push information about fund supervision accounts, large-amount fund changes, and transaction records in accordance with the regulatory requirements of the competent authority.
It is necessary to clarify the domestic and overseas listing standards and procedures of non-disciplinary training institutions, strictly control the gates, do a good job of supervision and guidance, and prevent barbaric growth.
The financing and income of training institutions should be mainly used for training business operations.
Fully use the "Primary and Secondary School Students' Off-Campus Training Service Contract (Model Text)" (Revised 2021) to clarify training items, training requirements, training fees and refunds, liability for breach of contract, dispute handling, etc., to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the masses.
5. Strengthen daily supervision
12. Strengthen safety management.
All localities should implement the legal representative and actual controller of the institution as the first person responsible for safety management, guide them to effectively perform their safety duties, urge the institution to fully implement the safety risk prevention requirements stipulated by the state, such as human defense, physical defense, and technical defense, and establish a safety management system , regularly carry out security self-examination, and eliminate potential safety hazards in a timely manner.
Offline training venues should be equipped with audio and video monitoring equipment that meets relevant technical standards to ensure that classrooms, outdoor activity venues, activity rooms, and surrounding areas have no dead ends, set up obvious reminder signs, and have real-time networking with public security, education, and other departments. interface.
Encourage training institutions to purchase site liability insurance, personal accident insurance, etc.
All localities must follow the unified deployment of local party committees and governments, and earnestly do a good job in the prevention and control of epidemics in non-disciplinary training institutions.
13. Improve the law enforcement mechanism.
All localities should establish a joint law enforcement mechanism under the leadership of party committees and governments with division of labor and cooperation among various departments, and promote coordination and linkage between superiors and subordinates, between the same level, and between different places.
Education administrative departments should strengthen the organization and coordination of comprehensive law enforcement, joint law enforcement, and collaborative law enforcement for non-disciplinary training, and all relevant departments should seriously investigate and deal with incomplete qualifications, disciplinary training, unfair price behavior, false publicity, and potential safety hazards in accordance with the law , Affecting the enrollment order and other violations of laws and regulations.
Establish and improve the transfer and processing mechanism of problem clues, and accelerate the realization of the interconnection of illegal clues between departments, the interoperability of regulatory standards, and the mutual recognition of handling results.
Regularly sort out the outstanding problems that the masses have strongly reported, timely deploy centralized special rectification, and timely report typical cases of violations of laws and regulations in non-disciplinary training to form a warning and deterrence.
14. Promote information management.
All localities should include all non-disciplinary training institutions in the national off-campus education training supervision and service comprehensive platform (hereinafter referred to as the supervision platform) for unified management, complete registration and login simultaneously, accept annual inspection and review on time, and carry out accompanying information collection to ensure that there are no omissions in institutions, Full data collection and accurate information.
Make full use of technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence, explore off-site supervision such as remote supervision and mobile supervision, promote the innovation of the "Internet + supervision" model, and improve the precision and intelligence of supervision.
Promote data exchange and sharing, collect non-disciplinary training institution administrative license information, administrative punishment information, black and white list information, etc. through the supervision platform to the national credit information sharing platform, the national enterprise credit information publicity system, etc., to build a credit supervision system and guide training Institutional compliance.
15. Promote industry self-discipline.
All localities should guide the industry associations related to off-campus training to establish and improve industry self-discipline norms, professional ethics standards, and industry-specific disciplinary mechanisms, etc., to promote integrity management and fair competition of training institutions, and strive to standardize industry order.
Encourage industry associations to formulate relevant industry service standards to improve service quality.
Support industry associations to play their roles in dispute resolution, rights protection, industry credit building, etc., and promote the standardized operation of the industry.
6. Do a good job in supporting reforms
16. Strengthen the main role of school education.
Schools in all regions should speed up the construction of an education system that comprehensively cultivates morality, intelligence, physical education, art and labor under the background of "double reduction", insist on reducing burdens and improving quality and efficiency, and improve the overall level of school education, so as to promote students to return to school better.
Strengthen the provision of teachers in shortage subjects such as music, physical education, and fine arts, focus on solving the structural contradictions of the teaching staff, and fully develop good music, body and art courses.
Reasonably control the total amount and duration of operations, continuously improve the level of operation design, and enhance the pertinence and effectiveness of operations.
Improve and implement the after-school service funding guarantee mechanism, further tap the potential of the school, coordinate the use of social resources such as science popularization, culture, and sports, and actively hire retired teachers, qualified social professionals or volunteers to participate in supporting the school's after-school service work , enrich the after-school service content of the school, and meet the diverse learning needs of students.
Strengthen teaching standard management, strengthen teaching and research work, deepen teaching reform and innovation, and effectively improve the quality of classroom teaching.
Make full use of the national primary and secondary school smart education platform, improve the resource construction mechanism, and continuously gather various high-quality resources to serve teacher education and student independent learning.
Consolidate the basic balanced achievements of compulsory education, accelerate the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education, and further narrow the gaps in education between regions, urban and rural areas, between schools, and between groups.
17. Improve the supervision mechanism for non-disciplinary training institutions entering the campus.
Localities can appropriately introduce non-disciplinary training institutions to participate in school after-school services according to their needs.
To adhere to the principle of public welfare, the education administrative department, together with development and reform and other relevant departments, shall determine the training institutions that are allowed to be introduced in the white list of the supervision platform in accordance with the provisions of the government procurement legal system, form a list of training institutions and service items and the introduction fee standard, and strengthen Daily supervision and establishment of dynamic adjustment mechanism.
The introduction fee standard should be determined through competitive methods such as bidding, and it should be significantly lower than the fee standard for training institutions to provide homogeneous training services outside the school.
When necessary, the development and reform department may conduct cost surveys in conjunction with the education department, and urge the reduction of high introduction fee standards.
All localities may, according to local conditions, include the fees required for the introduction of training institutions into the local after-school service funding guarantee mechanism; if it is necessary to collect additional fees, they shall be included in the fee collection management.
Schools select service items and training institutions on the list according to actual needs, and are not allowed to increase fees for after-school services to obtain benefits.
All localities should improve the mechanism, give preferential support to weak schools and rural schools to provide after-school services, and reduce or exempt students from families with financial difficulties in light of the actual situation.
It is necessary to establish an evaluation and exit mechanism for non-disciplinary training institutions to participate in after-school services, and resolutely cancel training for training institutions that have problems such as low service levels, malicious recruitment of students in schools, failure to provide services in accordance with regulations, and disruption of school education, teaching and enrollment order qualifications.
18. Deepen the reform of examination and evaluation.
Schools in all regions must fully implement the quality evaluation guidelines for preschool education, compulsory education, and ordinary high school education, and improve the quality evaluation system oriented towards the development of quality education.
Improve the content, methods and scoring methods of the physical education and art high school entrance examinations, reverse the one-sided test-oriented education tendency, effectively strengthen the process assessment, gradually realize the grade presentation of test scores, weaken the selection function, and focus on the cultivation of students' sports habits and artistic literacy.
Strictly enforce the discipline of enrollment work, and shall not link the results of non-disciplinary off-campus training with the enrollment of universities, middle schools and primary schools.
Standardize and reduce sports, culture and art, and science and technology grading activities for primary and middle school students. The grades, rankings, and certificates of various grading and competitions, unless otherwise specified, shall not be used as the basis for the evaluation of sports, art, and science and technology, and enrollment.
7. Strengthen organizational leadership
19. Comprehensive system deployment.
Under the unified leadership of the party committee and the government, all localities should earnestly improve their ideological understanding, standardize non-disciplinary training as a major livelihood project, put it on the important agenda, study and formulate work plans, find out the bottom line, and clarify the timetable, road map, and mission statement , Reverse the construction period, fight on the wall chart, and compact the compaction responsibility.
Specialized coordination mechanisms for "double reduction" work at all levels must fully play their roles, adhere to overall planning, division of labor and collaboration, and joint actions, timely analyze and judge new situations and problems that arise, propose targeted measures, strengthen information sharing and reporting, and ensure that all The work is practical and effective.
The pilot cities of the national "double reduction" work should play a leading role in demonstration, dare to try first, and explore beneficial experience.
20. Clear division of labor.
Local education administrative departments should give full play to the role of the special coordination mechanism for the "double reduction" work, strengthen overall coordination, conduct daily supervision of non-disciplinary training with relevant departments, and guide schools to do a good job in education and teaching; sports, culture and tourism, science and technology, etc. Departments should focus on formulating industry standards and daily supervision; development and reform departments, in conjunction with education administration and other departments, should focus on the formulation of charging policies; civil affairs departments should focus on the supervision of non-profit non-disciplinary training institutions violating relevant registration management regulations work; market supervision departments do a good job in the supervision of registration, price behavior, advertising and other aspects of for-profit non-disciplinary training institutions; the People's Bank of China, China Banking Regulatory Commission, and China Securities Regulatory Commission guide financial institutions to cooperate with education administrative departments and other competent departments to do a good job of pre-charging Management and listing financing control and other work; network information and telecommunications authorities cooperate to do a good job in the supervision of online institutions; relevant industry associations, mass organizations, scientific research institutes, etc. must play a professional support role, carry out monitoring and evaluation research, and make full use of industry resources to help Primary and secondary schools carry out student practice and teacher training activities.
21. Strengthen supervision and publicity work.
The Office of the Education Steering Committee of the State Council will strengthen the supervision and assessment of local governments, and regularly report the progress of standardizing non-disciplinary training in various places.
The Ministry of Education and relevant departments will conduct open investigations and unannounced visits in due course to strengthen targeted guidance.
All localities should strengthen the supervision and evaluation of standardized non-disciplinary training, establish an accountability mechanism, and seriously hold accountable the localities and relevant responsible persons who do not implement their responsibilities, do not take measures in place, and have strong complaints from the people.
It is necessary to strengthen policy interpretation through various channels, sum up experience and practices in a timely manner, do a good job in publicity and promotion, and create a good atmosphere.
Central Cyberspace Administration of the Ministry of Education National Development and Reform Commission
Ministry of Science and Technology Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Ministry of Civil Affairs
Ministry of Finance Ministry of Culture and Tourism People's Bank of China
State Administration for Market Regulation State Sports General Administration China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission
China Securities Regulatory Commission
November 30, 2022