(Source: China Economic Times January 13, 2025)
In 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the National Education Conference. He emphasized that building a strong country in education is a good wish that the Chinese nation has dreamed of since modern times. It is the leading task, solid foundation and strategic support for comprehensively promoting the construction of a powerful country and national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization. It must make solid progress towards the set goals. In 2024, the Party Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Outline of the Plan for Building a Powerful Educational Country (2024-2035)", which made strategic plans and systematic arrangements for building a powerful country in education, and formed clear construction drawings and timetables, which are action guides for building a powerful country in education. The just-held 2025 National Education Work Conference pointed out that 2025 is a critical year for implementing the spirit of the National Education Conference and implementing the outline of the plan for building an educational power. It is also the year for the conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the planning year for the "15th Five-Year Plan". It is also the year for comprehensive layout and high-level advancement towards building an educational power in ten years.
1. To deepen the study of the party’s innovative theory and effectively enhance the ideological consciousness and action consciousness of building a powerful country in education
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has issued a series of important expositions on education, scientifically answering the fundamental questions of "who to train, how to train people, and for whom to train people." He has profoundly answered a series of major questions such as why we need to build an educational power in the new era and the new journey, what kind of educational country to build, and how to build an educational power. It has pointed out the way forward and provided fundamental guidance for building an educational power. Colleges and universities must continue to deepen the study of the Party's innovative theory and resolutely integrate thoughts and actions into the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core on building a powerful country in education.
Learn and strengthen the mission and responsibility of building a powerful country through education through the party’s innovative theory.Colleges and universities should constantly improve their political position, keep in mind the "big one in the country", deeply grasp the strategic mission of building a powerful country through education, give full play to the basic, leading and overall status and role of education, use the power of education to plant the foundation of people's happiness, and use the power of education to consolidate the foundation of national prosperity. A new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation are having a profound impact on the global order and development trend. The world's higher education pattern is undergoing systematic adjustment and reshaping. China's higher education is facing unprecedented opportunities. Facing the strategic overall situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, colleges and universities must deepen comprehensive reforms and make greater contributions to accelerating the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, cultivating first-class innovative talents, and serving the overall strategic overall economic and social development.
Learning from the party’s innovative theory strengthens the historical confidence in building a powerful country through education.Currently, the popularity of education at all levels in our country has reached or exceeded the average level of middle- and high-income countries. The popularity of compulsory education has reached the average level of high-income countries in the world. Higher education has achieved a historic leap from popularization to universalization. The overall level of educational modernization has entered the ranks of middle- and upper-income countries in the world. Education has made historic achievements and undergone pattern changes. Colleges and universities must effectively enhance their historical confidence and strategic awareness in building an educational power, base themselves on the new era, anchor strategic goals, take root in China, effectively learn from foreign advanced experience and practices, constantly improve institutional systems, enhance educational governance capabilities, and firmly develop determination and confidence in modern education with Chinese characteristics and world-class standards.
Use the party’s innovative theory to learn and strengthen the core essence of building a powerful country through education.General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the education power we want to build is a socialist education power with Chinese characteristics. We must adhere to the party's overall leadership of education as the fundamental guarantee, build moral integrity as the fundamental task, educate people for the party and educate talents for the country as the fundamental goal, and serve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as the important mission. Colleges and universities must firmly grasp the political, people and strategic attributes of education, deeply understand the "six characteristics" and "five major relationships" of a strong educational country, persist in systematically and holistically promoting the construction of a strong educational country, achieve a new systemic leap and qualitative change in our country's education, effectively answer the contemporary issues of "building a strong country and what universities should do", and firmly follow the new path of building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics.
2. Deepening the comprehensive reform of education to provide a strong impetus for building an educational power
Reform is the fundamental driving force for the development of education. Building an educational power is a complex systematic project that involves all types of education at all levels, including education methods, w88 casino running models, management systems, guarantee mechanisms and other aspects. Deepening the comprehensive reform of education based on the new era should be oriented to serve the strategic needs of China-style modernization, with the goal of building an educational power, adhere to the people-centered concept, adhere to integrated promotion and high-level governance, and continuously enhance the support and contribution of education to high-quality development.
Insist on putting the people at the center.Adhering to the people-centered approach is the fundamental manifestation of the attributes of educating the people. Only by being in line with the interests of the people and meeting the needs of the people can the scientific nature of education reform be supported, the effectiveness of implementation be guaranteed, the motivation for development be supported, and education that satisfies the people be provided in a down-to-earth manner. Continuously meeting the people's needs for diverse and high-quality education is the source of power for education reform and development, and it is also the source of continuous progress in the field of education. Whether it is to solve the problem of increasing the quantity of education, balancing the structure, or effectively improving the quality, it must be consistent with the important attribute of "people-centered". People's satisfaction must be regarded as an important criterion for measuring educational development, accelerating the construction of a high-quality education system, improving the ability to independently cultivate talents, and effectively integrating promoting equity and improving quality into all aspects and links of deepening comprehensive education reform.
Insist on systematic advancement.Building a powerful country through education is a complex systematic project that requires systematic concepts and integrated thinking. Focusing on the systematic reconstruction, overall reshaping, and institutional reconstruction of the education system, we will coordinate basic education, higher education, vocational education, and lifelong education, optimize policy support, resource allocation, and mechanism innovation, and coordinate the reform of education methods, w88 casino running models, management systems, and guarantee mechanisms, so as to continuously add impetus and vitality to the construction of an educational power. It is necessary to integrate the deepening of the comprehensive reform of education with the deepening of the reform of the science and technology system and talent development system and mechanism, strengthen the synergy and efficiency of scientific and technological innovation forces, factor allocation, and talent team systems, identify and smooth the connection points and integration points of the virtuous cycle of education, science and technology, and talent, and give full play to the basic and strategic supporting role of education, science and technology, and talent in the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country. It is necessary to coordinate and promote deepening the comprehensive reform of education and promoting high-level opening up of education, improving the education governance system and governance capabilities, and achieving high-quality development of education.
Adhere to high-level governance.With the rapid development and rapid expansion of the scale of education in our country, the requirements for high-level educational governance capabilities are getting higher and higher. It can even be said that the level of modernization of educational governance systems and governance capabilities determines the level and capabilities of educational modernization to a large extent. To accelerate the construction of an educational power, we need to break the conceptual constraints and institutional shortcomings that restrict the high-quality development of education. We also need to comprehensively improve the modernization level of the education governance system and governance capabilities. It is necessary to effectively enhance the awareness of awareness and action of educational governance, strengthen legal thinking, make good use of the rule of law, promote the joint participation of multiple subjects in the management of educational public affairs, straighten out the division of labor and collaborative relationships between levels, and between various levels and educational administrative sections, use modern technological governance tools to improve the scientific, precise and convenient level of educational governance, continuously strengthen and improve the modern education system and capacity building with Chinese characteristics, and effectively promote and realize the modernization of education with high-quality education governance.
3. Accelerate the implementation of various tasks and measures to build an educational power with a strong spirit of mission and responsibility
There are still ten years to go before we build a powerful country in education in 2035. The time is tight and the tasks are heavy, and the mission is glorious and arduous. We must speed up the implementation of various tasks and measures to build a powerful country in education with a strong sense of mission and responsibility. We must learn to understand clearly the key points of the Party Central Committee's decision-making and deployment, the key links and areas in building a powerful country in education, and the breakthrough points of reform and development. We must strengthen our confidence and perseverance, and use the spirit of nailing to ensure that all tasks and arrangements are implemented and effective.
Implement the basic task of building moral character and cultivating people.Strengthen and improve ideological and political education in the new era, organize and implement the project of building moral character and cultivating people in the new era, and continue to deepen the incorporation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era into teaching materials, classrooms, and minds. Strengthen the chemical and physical research and interpretation of the Party's innovative theoretical system, apply the results into teaching practice, and guide students to understand the practical power of the Party's innovative theory. Coordinate and promote the collaboration between classes and out of w88 casino, the integration of inside and outside the w88 casino, and the integration of online and offline, create a characteristic brand of online ideological and political education, and continuously expand the space and position for practical education and online education. Continue to improve the comprehensive training system of moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and labor skills to promote the all-round growth of students. Implement the action of educating teachers’ souls and strengthening teachers, improve the long-term mechanism for the construction of teacher ethics, improve the teacher education system with Chinese characteristics, coordinate and optimize teacher management and resource allocation, and create a high-quality professional teacher team.
81In-depth implementation of special actions to improve the quality and expansion of basic education, promote the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education and urban-rural integration, promote the inclusive development of preschool education, and promote the diversified development of high w88 casino schools. Deepen the reform of the modern vocational education system and cultivate great craftsmen, skilled craftsmen, and highly skilled talents. Give play to the leading role of higher education, accelerate the construction of "double first-class", promote the reform and development of colleges and universities in different categories, and encourage each college to develop characteristics and achieve high standards in different "tracks". Anchoring the urgent needs of major national strategies, cultivating and strengthening national strategic scientific and technological capabilities, and assisting the development of new productive forces. Implement the national education digitalization strategy, use education digitalization to open up new development tracks and create new development advantages. Deepen the reform of education evaluation and form a new education evaluation system with Chinese characteristics and world-class standards. Accelerate the construction of an education system that serves lifelong learning for all people and build a learning society.
Implement high-level opening up of education.General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that we must further promote the opening up of education to the outside world, coordinate "bringing in" and "going out", and continuously enhance the international influence, competitiveness and voice of our country's education. Colleges and universities should pay attention to and improve their ability to cultivate and gather global talents, establish a global mindset, attract top overseas talents to study in China, be active and adept at carrying out substantive and sustainable cooperation and exchanges with the world's high-quality educational resources, and enhance their ability to engage in international exchanges and cooperation. Fully draw on the world’s advanced concepts of running schools and running schools, carry out various forms of Sino-foreign joint education, such as mutual recognition of credits and mutual joint teaching of degrees, and vigorously promote the construction of the “Study in China” brand. Actively participate in global education governance and deepen cooperation with international organizations and multilateral mechanisms. Vigorously promote high-level opening up of education and take multiple measures to continuously shape a new image and new advantages of my country's higher education and accelerate its development into an important education center with global influence.
Standing at a new starting point in history, facing the new mission of building a powerful country in education, we must thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the National Education Conference and General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on education, find new positioning, grasp new requirements, muster new energy, adhere to the goal orientation, and work hard for a long time. Continuously deepen the comprehensive reform of education, implement detailed key tasks, gather strength and stimulate vitality, promote the steady and long-term development of the construction of an educational power, and lead the development of Chinese-style modernization with the support of the construction of an educational power.
(The author is Huang Baoyin, Secretary of the Party Committee of w88 casino)
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