Scholar Yao Yang: Equalize educational resources and achieve 80% of common prosperity

Yao Yang, dean of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, said in an exclusive interview with the media recently that the domestic education resources will be leveled and the common prosperity will be 80% completed. Yao Yang also said that the "double reduction policy" implemented last year is contradictory to reality, and feels that China's education should find a balance suitable for ourselves in the education model of the United States and Germany.

In recent years, Yao Yang's views on Chinese education have been shocked, frequently attracting heated discussion and discussion from the outside world, Yao Yang has high-profile opposition to the diversion of the middle school entrance examination, and suggested that the college entrance examination cancel English, and proposed the implementation of 10-year compulsory education.

Yao Yang once again said in an interview that the college entrance examination should cancel the English test, the reason given is that the gap between urban and rural education resources is obvious, he believes that English education and examination are carried out together with the mainland's reform and opening up, and taking the English test will not affect China's international process, because in daily life and work, the proportion of people who can really use English is not even 5%.

The double reduction policy implemented since last year has attracted widespread attention from the whole society, and has also affected tens of millions of families and many education practitioners, Yao Yang believes that the original intention of the double policy is good, and after the implementation has achieved certain positive results, but there are two sides to everything, and the double reduction policy also has its own contradictions.

In recent years, with the continuous development of China's extracurricular education and training institutions, education and training institutions have evolved from teaching in the traditional sense to "printing machines" that absorb money, and have matured into a complete set of education systems parallel to traditional school teaching. However, after the implementation of the double reduction policy, the extracurricular education and training institutions that are placed on the table on weekdays have turned to the underground, which has deepened the unfair distribution of regional education resources, and Yao Yang believes that the education and training institutions should be standardized in the system, but it is quite difficult to operate in the system.

In the interview, it can be seen that Yao Yang is very concerned about the uneven distribution of urban and rural education resources in China, the educational resources in rural areas are quite small compared to cities, and extremely uneven, from primary school to high school, the education received is not as good as that of children in cities, and gradually it will form a solidification of classes.

Yao Yang believes that China wants to achieve common prosperity, and the foundation of common prosperity is to achieve fairness in education. By 2035, China will be able to level its educational resources and achieve 80% of its goal of common prosperity.