Xi on education

Xi Jinping emphasizes during fifth collective study of CPC Central Committee Political Bureau:

Accelerate the construction of a strong education country
Provide strong support for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 29 – On the afternoon of May 29, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China conducted the fifth collective study on building an educational powerhouse. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, emphasized when presiding over the study that the prosperity of education leads to the prosperity of the country, and the strength of education makes the country strong. Building a strong education country is the strategic guide for comprehensively building a socialist modern power, an important support for achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, an effective way to promote the common prosperity of all people, and a basic project to comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. We must fully implement the party’s education policy, adhere to the people-centered development of education, actively advance the layout, effectively respond to changing situations, and strive to open up new situations, accelerate the modernization of education, use the power of education to cultivate the foundation of people’s happiness, and use the strength of education to consolidate the foundation of national prosperity and provide strong support for comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Qiu Yong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, explained this issue and put forward work suggestions. The comrades of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee listened carefully to the explanation and discussed it.

After listening to the explanation and discussion, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech. He pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee had insisted on taking education as the country’s major plan and the party’s major plan, and had made major decisions to speed up the modernization of education and build a strong education country, promoting the historic achievements and structural changes in the education cause in the new era. Our country has built the largest education system in the world and its overall level of education modernization has entered the ranks of upper-middle countries in the world. According to estimates, our country’s current education power index ranks 23rd in the world, up 26 places from 2012, making it the country with the fastest progress. This fully proves that the development path of socialist education with Chinese characteristics is completely correct.

Xi Jinping emphasized that the education power we want to build is a socialist education power with Chinese characteristics. We must uphold the party’s overall leadership over education as the fundamental guarantee, build morality and cultivate people as the fundamental task, and regard the party’s education of people and education of talents for the country as fundamental. The goal is to serve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as an important mission, to take the modernization of educational concepts, systems, systems, contents, methods, and governance as the basic path, to support and lead Chinese-style modernization as the core function, and ultimately to run education that satisfies the people.

Xi Jinping pointed out that what to train, how to train, and for whom to train were the fundamental issues of education and the core issue of building a strong education country. The purpose of building a powerful country through education is to train generations of socialist builders and successors who are morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically and labor-fully developed, and to cultivate generation after generation of talents who can be used in socialist modernization and can take on heavy responsibilities. To ensure that the party’s cause and the construction of a modern socialist country have successors, we must persevere in cultivating souls and educating people with socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, focus on strengthening the education of socialist core values, guide students to establish firm ideals and beliefs, always listen to and follow the party, and devote ourselves to the country and the people. We must adhere to reform and innovation, promote the integrated construction of ideological and political education in universities, middle schools and primary schools, and improve the pertinence and attractiveness of ideological and political courses. We must improve the ability of online education and do a solid job in ideological and political work and ideological work in schools in the Internet era.

Xi Jinping emphasized that we must insist on high-quality development as the lifeline of education at all levels and types, and accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system. To build a powerful country in education, the basic point is basic education. The more solid the basic education is, the more stable the pace and stamina of an education power will be. It is necessary to promote the popularization, inclusiveness, safety, and high-quality development of preschool education, and promote the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education and the integration of urban and rural areas. Basic education should not only consolidate students’ knowledge base, but also stimulate students’ interest in advocating science and exploring the unknown, and cultivate their exploratory and innovative thinking qualities. It is necessary to establish a scientific outlook on talents, success, and education in the whole society, speed up the reversal of the utilitarian tendency of education, and form a healthy educational environment and ecology. To build an educational power, the leader is higher education. It is necessary to accelerate the construction of world-class universities and superior disciplines with Chinese characteristics as the top priority, vigorously strengthen the construction of basic disciplines, emerging disciplines, and interdisciplinary disciplines, aiming at the frontiers of world science and technology and major national strategic needs to promote scientific research and innovation, and continuously improve original innovation capabilities and the quality of personnel training. It is necessary to build a learning society and a learning country where all people learn for life, promote everyone to learn everywhere and at any time, continuously improve the level of education of the people, comprehensively improve the level of human resource development, and promote the all-round development of people.

Xi Jinping pointed out that it is important to serve high-quality development as an important task of building a strong education country. Building a country with strong education, strong science and technology, and strong talents has internal consistency and mutual support. The three should be organically combined and promoted in an integrated manner to form a multiplier effect that promotes high-quality development. Further strengthen science education and engineering education, strengthen independent training of top-notch innovative talents, and provide talent support for solving key core technology problems in our country. Systematically analyze the development trends and gaps of talents in all aspects of our country, focus on the country’s major strategic needs according to the development trend of science and technology, dynamically adjust and optimize the discipline setting of higher education, train national strategic talents and urgently needed talents in a targeted manner, and improve education’s support for high-quality development. Coordinate vocational education, higher education, and continuing education, promote the integration of vocational education, the integration of industry and education, and the integration of science and education, and continuously cultivate high-quality technical and technical personnel, great country craftsmen, and skilled craftsmen.

Xi Jinping emphasized that it is a systematic leap and qualitative change from a big education country to a powerful education country, which must be driven by reform and innovation. It is necessary to adhere to the system concept, coordinate and promote the reform of education methods, school-running models, management systems, and guarantee mechanisms, resolutely break away from all ideological constraints and system and mechanism drawbacks that restrict the high-quality development of education, and comprehensively improve the modernization of the education governance system and governance capabilities. Integrate the promotion of educational equity into all aspects and links of deepening comprehensive reform in the field of education, narrow the gaps in education between urban and rural areas, regions, schools, and groups, and strive to ensure that every child can enjoy fair and quality education and better meet the needs of the masses for “going to school.”

Deepen the reform of educational evaluation in the new era, and build an educational evaluation system with the participation of multiple subjects, in line with China’s reality and at the world level. Strengthen the construction and management of teaching materials, firmly grasp the correct political direction and value orientation, and carefully create high-quality teaching materials that Bacon said cast the soul and enlightens wisdom and wisdom. The digitization of education is an important breakthrough for our country to open up a new track for education development and shape new advantages in education development. Further promote digital education to provide effective support for personalized learning, lifelong learning, expanding the coverage of high-quality educational resources and modernizing education.

Xi Jinping pointed out that it was necessary to improve the strategy of opening up education to the outside world, coordinate the two major articles of “bringing in” and “going out”, effectively use world-class educational resources and innovative elements, and make my country an important world education center with strong influence. It is necessary to actively participate in global education governance, vigorously promote the brand building of “study in China”, tell Chinese stories, spread Chinese experience, and make Chinese voices heard, so as to enhance the international influence and voice of our country’s education.

Xi Jinping emphasized that strengthening education required first strengthening teachers. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of teaching staff as the most important basic task of building an educational power, improving the teacher education system with Chinese characteristics, and vigorously cultivating a team of high-quality professional teachers with noble morality, professional skills, reasonable structure, and full of vitality. Carry forward the social custom of respecting teachers and emphasizing teaching, improve teachers’ political status, social status, and professional status, make teachers one of the most respected professions in society, support and attract outstanding talents to teach enthusiastically, meticulously, long-term, and lifelong. Strengthen the construction of teachers’ ethics, guide teachers to strengthen ideals and beliefs, cultivate moral sentiments, cultivate solid knowledge, and diligently cultivate benevolence and love, establish the ambition and ambition of “cultivating the teaching world, strengthening the country and myself”, stick to the “three-foot platform”, and concentrate on teaching and educating people.

Xi Jinping concluded by emphasizing that building a strong country through education was the common task of the entire Party and society. It is necessary to uphold and strengthen the party’s overall leadership over education work, and constantly improve the education leadership system in which the party committee is under the unified leadership, the party and the government are in charge of joint management, and departments are responsible for each. Party committees and governments at all levels must always adhere to the priority development of education, and intensify efforts in organizational leadership, development planning, resource guarantee, and funding investment. Schools, families, and society should work closely together and work in the same direction, actively participate in the practice of strengthening the country through education, and jointly run the cause of strengthening the country through education. The whole party and the people of the whole country must strengthen their confidence, work hard for a long time, and work together for the early realization of the goal of strengthening the country through education.