Education Policy

On September 10, the National Education Conference was held in Beijing. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. On behalf of the Party Central Committee, he extended warm holiday congratulations and sincere greetings to teachers and education workers across the country. (Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ye/photo)

Beijing, September 10th The National Education Conference was held in Beijing on the 10th. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. He emphasized that under the strong leadership of the Party, we must fully implement the Party’s education policy, adhere to the guiding position of Marxism, adhere to the development path of socialist education with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the direction of socialist school running, be based on the basic national conditions, follow the laws of education, and persist in reform and innovation. With the goal of uniting people's hearts, improving personality, developing human resources, cultivating talents, and benefiting the people, we should cultivate socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical education, art, and labor, accelerate the modernization of education, build an educational power, and run a good society that satisfies the people. educate.

September 10th is my country’s 34th Teachers’ Day. On behalf of the Party Central Committee, Xi Jinping extended warm congratulations and sincere greetings to teachers and education workers across the country. He emphasized that for a long time, teachers have implemented the party's education policy, taught and educated people, worked hard, and made silent contributions, making significant contributions to national development and national rejuvenation. Teachers are the engineers of the human soul and the inheritors of human civilization. They bear the important task of spreading knowledge, spreading ideas, spreading truth, shaping souls, shaping lives, and shaping new people. The whole party and the whole society must carry forward the social custom of respecting teachers and valuing education, strive to improve the political, social and professional status of teachers, so that teachers can enjoy their due social prestige and make new contributions to the cause of the party and the people in their teaching and educating positions. greater contribution.

Li Keqiang spoke at the meeting. Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji and Han Zheng attended the meeting.

Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech that the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has made major arrangements to prioritize the development of education, accelerate educational modernization, and build an educational power from the strategic perspective of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Education is an important cornerstone of national rejuvenation and social progress. It is a moral and political project that serves the present and will benefit the future. It is of decisive significance for improving the comprehensive quality of the people, promoting the all-round development of people, enhancing the innovative and creative vitality of the Chinese nation, and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. . Education is a major plan for the country and the Party.

Xi Jinping emphasized that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have focused on the fundamental issues of who to train, how to train people, and for whom to train people, comprehensively strengthen the party's leadership over education work, persist in cultivating people with moral integrity, and strengthen ideological and political work in schools, Promote education reform and speed up the filling of education shortcomings. The Chinese characteristics of education will become more distinctive. Educational modernization will be accelerated. The people's sense of gain in education will be significantly enhanced. The international influence of our country's education will be accelerated. The ideological and moral quality of more than 1.3 billion Chinese people will be improved. and comprehensive improvement of scientific and cultural quality.

Xi Jinping pointed out that in practice, we have put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas and new perspectives on education reform and development, mainly in the following aspects. We insist on the party’s overall leadership of the education cause, insist on cultivating people with moral character as the fundamental task, and insist on giving priority to Develop education, adhere to the direction of socialist school running, insist on running education rooted in China, insist on developing education with the people as the center, insist on deepening education reform and innovation, insist on serving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as an important mission of education, and insist on building the teaching team as an important mission. basic work. This is a deepening of our understanding of the laws of education in our country. It is hard-won and must be persisted in and continuously enriched and developed.

Xi Jinping emphasized that the new era and new situation, reform and opening up and socialist modernization, promoting the all-round development of people and all-round social progress have put forward new and higher requirements for education and learning. We must seize the opportunity, plan ahead, make overall arrangements and strategic designs for accelerating the modernization of education and building an educational power with a higher historical position, a broader international vision, and a deeper strategic vision, and insist on giving priority to the development of education. As an important first mover in promoting the development of various undertakings of the party and the country, education must constantly adapt to the development requirements of the party and the country, the expectations of the people, and the comprehensive national strength and international status of our country.

Xi Jinping pointed out that the primary issue in education is who to train. Our country is a socialist country led by the Communist Party of China, which determines that our education must take cultivating socialist builders and successors as its fundamental task, and train generations to support the leadership of the Communist Party of China and our country's socialist system, and aspire to become a society with Chinese characteristics. Useful talents who strive for life for socialism. This is the fundamental task of education and the direction and goal of educational modernization.

Xi Jinping emphasized that we must work hard to strengthen our ideals and beliefs, educate and guide students to establish the lofty ideals of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics, enhance students' self-confidence in the path, theory, system and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and determine to shoulder the responsibility of the nation. The important task of the era of revival. Efforts should be made to cultivate patriotism, let the spirit of patriotism be firmly rooted in the hearts of students, educate and guide students to love and support the Communist Party of China, be determined to listen to and follow the Party, and be determined to take root in the people and contribute to the country. Efforts should be made to strengthen moral cultivation, educate and guide students to cultivate and practice the core socialist values, cultivate moral character in a down-to-earth manner, and become people with great love, great virtue, and great feelings. Efforts should be made to increase knowledge and insight, and education should guide students to cherish their study time, pursue knowledge without distraction, increase their knowledge, enrich their knowledge, and move forward in the direction of seeking truth, understanding truth, and understanding things. Efforts should be made to cultivate the spirit of struggle. Education should guide students to establish lofty aspirations, experience the spirit of daring to take on responsibilities and unremitting struggle, have a mental state of courage to struggle, and an optimistic attitude towards life, so as to be strong and promising and constantly strive for self-improvement. Efforts should be made to enhance comprehensive quality, and education should guide students to develop comprehensive abilities and cultivate innovative thinking. It is necessary to establish the educational concept of health first, and open sufficient physical education classes to help students enjoy physical exercise, strengthen their physique, improve their personality, and temper their will. It is necessary to comprehensively strengthen and improve school aesthetic education, persist in educating people with aesthetics and culture, and improve students' aesthetic and humanistic qualities. It is necessary to carry forward the spirit of labor among students, educate and guide students to advocate and respect labor, understand the truth that labor is the most glorious, noble, great and beautiful, and be able to work hard, honestly and creatively when they grow up.

Xi Jinping pointed out that efforts should be made to build an education system that comprehensively cultivates moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and labor skills, and form a higher-level talent training system. It is necessary to integrate moral education into all aspects of ideological and moral education, cultural knowledge education, and social practice education, and run through all fields of basic education, vocational education, and higher education. The subject system, teaching system, teaching material system, and management system must be designed around this goal. , teachers should teach around this goal, and students should learn around this goal. All practices that are not conducive to achieving this goal must be resolutely changed.

Xi Jinping emphasized that building a modern and powerful socialist country puts forward new and higher requirements for the construction of the teaching team, and also puts forward new and higher requirements for the whole party and the whole society to respect teachers and value education. People's teachers have the supreme honor. Every teacher must cherish this honor, cherish this profession, strictly demand himself, and constantly improve himself. To be a teacher, you must be dedicated to teaching and educating people, have the determination to love education, and be indifferent to fame and fortune. As the conditions for running schools continue to improve, investment in education must be more tilted toward teachers, and teachers' salaries must be continuously improved so that teachers can teach with peace of mind and enthusiasm. Problems existing in the teaching staff must be resolutely punished in accordance with the law and disciplines.

Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to deepen the reform of the education system, improve the implementation mechanism of cultivating moral character and cultivating people, reverse the unscientific orientation of educational evaluation, resolutely overcome the stubborn problems of only scores, only entrance to higher education, only diplomas, only papers, and only hats, and fundamentally solve the problem. The baton issue in educational evaluation. It is necessary to deepen the reform of the school running system and education management and fully stimulate the vitality of the development of education. It is necessary to enhance the ability of education to serve economic and social development, adjust and optimize the regional layout, subject structure, and professional settings of universities, establish and improve the dynamic adjustment mechanism of subjects and majors, accelerate the construction of first-class universities and first-class disciplines, promote collaborative innovation of industry, academia, and research, and actively participate in the implementation of innovation-driven development strategies , focusing on cultivating innovative, compound and applied talents. It is necessary to expand the opening up of education and carry out high-level cooperation with world-class resources in running schools.

Xi Jinping emphasized that strengthening the party's overall leadership over education work is the fundamental guarantee for running education well. Party organizations in education departments and schools at all levels must strengthen the "four consciousnesses" and strengthen the "four self-confidences", unswervingly safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and consciously maintain political stance, political direction, political principles, and political Maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee on the road. Party committees at all levels must include education reform and development on their agenda, and the main responsible comrades of the party and government must be familiar with education, care about education, and research education. School party organizations at all levels and types should regard school party building work as a basic skill in running and running schools, and fully implement the party’s education policy into all aspects of school work. Ideological and political work is the lifeline of all school work, and party committees at all levels, education authorities at all levels, and school party organizations must tightly grasp it. It is necessary to carefully cultivate and organize a team of political workers who can do ideological and political work, and do ideological and political work on a daily basis and personally.

Xi Jinping pointed out that to run education well, families, schools, governments and society all have responsibilities. Family is the first school in life, and parents are their children's first teachers. They should teach their children the "first lesson of life" and help them button the first button of life. Departments such as education and women's federations must coordinate social resources to support family education. The whole society must shoulder the responsibility for the growth and development of young people. Party committees and governments at all levels must ensure the safety of schools, solve their worries, safeguard the dignity of teachers and schools, and protect the lives and safety of students.

Li Keqiang pointed out in his speech that we must conscientiously study, understand and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech, be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, accurately grasp the new situations and new tasks facing the development of education, and comprehensively implement the education priority development strategy , Prioritize education in economic and social development planning, prioritize education in financial capital investment, and prioritize education and human resource development needs in public resource allocation. Adhere to reform and innovation, adhere to educational fairness, promote the transformation of education from scale growth to quality improvement, promote the balanced development of regional, urban and rural areas and all types of education, and support national modernization with educational modernization. It is necessary to focus on making up for shortcomings, consolidate the foundation of compulsory education, strengthen the work of controlling dropouts and ensuring education in rural areas, especially in poor areas, improve the compulsory education funding guarantee mechanism that unifies urban and rural areas and focuses on rural areas, and strive to improve the conditions for running rural schools and improve the quality of teaching. Pay attention to the use of information technology to enable rural areas to obtain more high-quality educational resources, and give special care in terms of speed improvement, fee reduction, and network construction. More investment in education should be used to strengthen the construction of rural teachers, and existing subsidies, rewards and various security policies should be implemented to the letter. Qualified non-employed teachers should be accelerated to join the staff and receive equal pay for equal work. We will proactively plan the construction of urban schools, enhance their accommodation capacity, and accelerate the integration of enrollment benefits for migrant children in the same city. At the same time, attention should be paid to the development of preschool education, high school education, ethnic education, special education, continuing education and other types of education.

Li Keqiang emphasized the need to enhance the innovative development capabilities of educational services and cultivate more talents of all types suitable for high-quality development. Optimize the regional layout, subject structure, and professional settings of colleges and universities, adhere to teaching as the center, highlight innovation consciousness and practical ability, and cultivate more innovative talents and high-quality talents. Pay more attention to and give full play to the important role of universities in strengthening basic research and original innovation, and making breakthroughs in key core technologies. Vigorously run vocational schools, adhere to the direction of running schools that are market-oriented, serve development, and promote employment, promote the integration of industry and education, school-enterprise cooperation, and cultivate more high-skilled talents. Improve the social status and treatment of technical and skilled talents.

Li Keqiang called for deepening the reform of "delegating power, delegating power, delegating power, delegating power, delegating power, delegating power, delegating power, regulating power and optimizing services" in the education field, and fully unleashing the vitality of education development. Respect the laws of educational development, give full play to the main role of schools in running schools, significantly reduce all types of inspections, assessments, and evaluations, strengthen normative guidance on the direction, standards, and quality of running schools, and create a good environment for schools to devote themselves to running schools. Actively encourage social forces to establish education in accordance with the law. Encourage schools at all levels and types to keep pace with the times and innovate educational concepts and talent training models, develop "Internet + education", improve the system and mechanism to attract outstanding talents to engage in education, enhance the social status of teachers, and make respect for teachers and education common practice.

Members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, members of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, relevant leading comrades of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, State Councilors, President of the Supreme People's Court, Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and relevant leading comrades of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference attended the conference.

Members of the Central Leading Group for Education, responsible comrades from various provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and cities under separate state planning, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, relevant departments of the central and state agencies, relevant people's organizations, relevant military units, and some universities attended the conference. (Xinhua News Agency reporters Wu Jing Hu Hao)