Recently, People's Education Magazine, together with China Education Television, Banyuetan Magazine, Xinhuanet, and People's Daily Education Channel, jointly released the "Top Ten Keywords of China's Basic Education in 2023". Let's take a look!
1. Building a strong country in education
Establish the "general navigation" of education to build a modern socialist country in an all-round way
On October 12, 2023, at the No. 2 Experimental Primary School in Chengyang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, students performed a talent show at the opening ceremony of the Autumn Games.
Background: The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that "accelerate the construction of a strong country in education, science and technology, and talents, insist on educating people for the party and the country, comprehensively improve the quality of independent training of talents, and strive to create top-notch innovative talents, and gather talents from all over the world to use them". On the afternoon of May 29, 2023, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held the fifth collective study on building a strong country in education. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, stressed when presiding over the study that a prosperous education will lead to a prosperous country, and a strong education will make the country strong. Building a strong country in education is the strategic precursor to building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, an important support for achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance, an effective way to promote common prosperity for all people, and a basic project to comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
Interpretation: A strong country must first strengthen education, and a strong education will make the country strong. Building a strong country in education is a major strategic deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, as well as the will and action of the state. Building a strong country in education is a systematic project, and it is necessary to adhere to the work ideas of being based on the long-term, standard-led, step-by-step implementation, and overall advancement, and system design, system implementation, system evaluation, and system improvement. It is necessary to further scientifically understand and grasp the comprehensiveness, complexity, profundity and systematization of deep-seated educational reform, give full play to the advantages of the socialist system, consolidate the advantages of scale, improve the advantages of quality, strive to enhance the comprehensive strength, international competitiveness and influence of education, continue to narrow the gap between urban and rural, regional, inter-school and group education, and make substantial breakthroughs in realizing the high-quality and balanced development of urban and rural education and accelerating the construction of the world's important talent center and innovation highland.
2. The basis is in basic education
Polishing the background color of talent growth and development, and building a solid foundation for building a strong country in education
On February 7, 2023, the teacher of the 12th Complete Primary School in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, received the first lesson of the new semester.
Background: On the afternoon of May 29, 2023, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held the fifth collective study on building a strong country in education. Xi Jinping stressed that it is necessary to adhere to high-quality development as the lifeline of all levels and types of education, and accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system. To build a strong country in education, the basis is basic education. The more solid the basic education is, the more stable the pace and the more stamina there will be for building a strong country through education.
Interpretation: From the perspective of individual growth, basic education is the foundation for individuals to achieve all-round development and lifelong development, and plays a key and irreversible role in individual growth. From a social point of view, education in the basic education stage plays a fundamental role in the overall social development, and the basic knowledge, basic skills, behavioral norms, and value norms required for the operation and development of the social system must be laid at this stage. From the perspective of education, basic education is not only the foundation of higher education and vocational education, but also the premise of lifelong education. On the one hand, the basic education stage lays the foundation for the growth and development of children and adolescents throughout their lives, and it is necessary to lay a good foundation, consolidate and carry forward the advantages of the mainland's basic education, educate and guide students to lay a solid foundation for the excellent traditional Chinese culture and the foundation for national rejuvenation talents, and strengthen their ideological character, study habits, and will and character. Enhance stamina, cultivate socialist builders and successors with innovative thinking and innovation ability, solidly improve the overall quality of students, lay the foundation for lifelong development and lifelong learning, and provide support for the development of higher education and the strengthening of the country with talents.
3. Educator spirit
Indicate the direction of the construction of the teacher team and establish a benchmark for the growth and development of teachers
People's Educator Yu Yi
Background: The National Outstanding Teacher Representative Symposium was held in Beijing on September 9, 2023. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a letter to the participating teacher representatives. Xi Jinping stressed that on the new journey, I hope that you and the majority of teachers across the country will take educators as an example, vigorously carry forward the spirit of educators, keep in mind the original mission of educating people for the party and the country, and establish the ambition and ambition of "cultivating the altar and strengthening the country", self-confidence, self-improvement, and hard work, and make new and greater contributions to the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation.
Interpretation: A strong country must first strengthen education, strong education must first strengthen teachers, and teachers are the first resource to build a strong country in education. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the construction of the teaching team, and has made important instructions on many occasions, putting forward ardent expectations for the majority of teachers to be good teachers with "four haves" and to be a great gentleman who unifies "economic teachers" and "human teachers". The core essence of the spirit of educators, which not only originates from the fine tradition of teachers for thousands of years, but also is based on the mission of the times of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, is an important core and important starting point for the construction of teachers in the new era, which has brought great value guidance and spiritual inspiration to the majority of teachers and educators, and is of great significance for building a strong country in education and promoting the high-quality development of education.
4. A high-quality and balanced basic public education service system
It provides a strong starting point for accelerating the construction of an educational power
On April 13, 2023, at Tieshi Primary School in Tieshi Miao Yi Township, Qianxi City, Guizhou Province, teachers from the No. 2 Primary School of Zhongxin Town, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou City, Guangzhou City, gave an open English class.
Background: The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed: "accelerate the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education and the integration of urban and rural areas". In 2023, 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 Building a High-quality and Balanced Basic Public Education Service System", proposing that "by 2035, the operating conditions, teaching staff, funding investment, and governance system of compulsory education schools will meet the needs of a strong country in education, the level of balanced development of compulsory education at the city (prefecture, prefecture, league) level will be significantly improved, and the compulsory education at the vast majority of counties (cities, districts, banners) will achieve high-quality and balanced".
Interpretation: At present, there is still a contradiction between the society's demand for fair and high-quality education and the unbalanced and inadequate development of education in basic education in mainland China. Promoting the construction of a basic public education service system has become an important starting point for solving the problem of unbalanced and inadequate education development, building a high-quality education system, and supporting the construction of a strong country in education. It is necessary to profoundly grasp the goal direction and key tasks of promoting the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education, strive to implement the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, improve the level of balanced development, solve the problems of the people's urgency, hardship and longing, and effectively ensure that the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education is promoted on time, in an orderly and effective manner. The basic public education service system includes three aspects: first, to ensure compulsory education, to achieve "high-quality and balanced"; second, to ensure that students at all levels and types of education are subsidized, to achieve "all possible assistance"; third, to ensure that other basic public services for young students, such as health, culture and sports, employment and entrepreneurship, should be guaranteed, and to achieve "full protection".
5. Actions to expand and improve the quality of basic education
We should do a better job in running a fairer and higher-quality basic education
On September 1, 2023, students raised their hands to speak in class at Jiapu Town Central Primary School in Changxing County, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province.
Background: In 2023, in order to effectively run a fairer and higher-quality basic education, the Ministry of Education, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Finance issued opinions and decided to organize the implementation of the action plan for expanding and improving the quality of basic education in the new era. The opinions put forward the implementation of eight major actions, including the action of universal guarantee of preschool education, the action of improving the quality of compulsory education, the action of connotating the connotation of ordinary high schools, the action of caring for special education students, the action of improving quality education, the action of building a team of high-quality teachers, the action of digital strategy, and the action of comprehensive reform.
Interpretation: The four words "expanding excellence and improving quality" concisely reflect the key goals and key tasks of basic education in the coming period, that is, to solve the problem of unbalanced basic education and the overall shortage of high-quality educational resources. Expanding the supply of high-quality educational resources and building a high-quality basic education system with excellent education for young children and excellent education for learning is the core of building a high-quality and balanced basic public education service system, a positive response to the people's demand for "good education", and a major measure to consolidate the role of the foundation for the construction of a strong country in education.
6. Digitalization of education
Promote the digital transformation of education and empower the high-quality development of education
On December 20, 2023, at Maojiawan Primary School in Ludian County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, students interacted with the large screen of the "Attention Special Training" course through an intelligent dual-teacher classroom.
Background: On January 12, 2023, the 2023 National Education Work Conference was held in Beijing, which proposed "Strategic Actions to Promote the Digitalization of Education in Depth", and in February, the World Digital Education Conference opened in Beijing with the theme of "Digital Transformation and the Future of Education" On June 19-20, the 2023 National Conference on the Field Promotion of Digitalization in Education was held in Wuhan, Hubei Province, at which the establishment of an Expert Advisory Committee on Digitalization in Education was announced, and in September, the 2022 UNESCO Prize for Informatization in Education was awarded at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, with the National Smart Education Platform project of China and the National Resource Center of Ireland The project co-won the award (the full name of the UNESCO Prize for Informatization in Education, the full name of the King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for Informatization in Education, funded by the Kingdom of Bahrain, mainly rewards organizations and individuals who have applied ICT to education and teaching and made outstanding contributions, and is the highest award for informatization in education in the United Nations system); At the promotion meeting, the new version of the national smart education public service platform and the "smart education" APP were released at the same time.
Interpretation: Education digitalization is an important breakthrough for the mainland to open up a new track for education development and shape new advantages for education development. On the one hand, it is necessary to deeply understand and understand the digitalization of China's basic education from the perspective of national strategy. China is hosting the world's largest basic education, and empowering the high-quality development of basic education with digitalization is a strategic choice and the only way to face the new era. The mainland attaches great importance to the digitalization of basic education, pays attention to the leading and promoting role of digital technology in basic education, and plans, deploys and promotes digitalization and the reform and development of basic education. On the other hand, it is necessary to continuously deepen the digitalization of China's basic education in the practice of high-quality education development. On the basis of achieving comprehensive coverage of digital infrastructure, we should further enrich high-quality digital education resources, improve the digital literacy skills of teachers and students, and promote large-scale application with obvious practical results, so as to inject strong impetus into the high-quality development of basic education.
7. Adolescent Student Reading Action
Reading nourishes the spirit, and the fragrance of books grows with me
On the occasion of "World Book Day", the Chengdong Campus of the Second Primary School of Changxing County, Zhejiang Province invited Tianjiacun, an outstanding provincial reading promoter, to the school to carry out the theme activity of "Reading Joyful Growth", guiding children to fall in love with reading, enjoy reading, and create a bookish and positive campus atmosphere.
Background: "I hope that the majority of party members and cadres will take the lead in reading and studying, self-cultivation and self-cultivation, and increase their talents; I hope that children will develop reading habits, read happily, and grow up healthily; I hope that the whole society will participate in reading, and form a strong atmosphere of loving reading, reading good books, and being good at reading." On April 23, 2022, on the occasion of the first National Reading Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter and expressed hope. At the 2023 National Education Work Conference, Huai Jinpeng, Minister of Education, proposed that the development of reading activities should be taken as a major event. In March 2023, the Ministry of Education and other eight departments issued the "Implementation Plan for the National Adolescent Students' Reading Action" to deploy and carry out the National Adolescent Students' Reading Action.
Interpretation: Adolescence is the jointing and booting period of life. Guiding students to love reading, read good books, and be good at reading is related to students' personal growth and success, to the cultivation and promotion of the national spirit, and to the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation. Students' reading habits, reading interests, and reading tastes are cultivated at home, at school, and in society. It is necessary to attach importance to classic reading, pay attention to the guidance of methods, strengthen the construction of "scholarly campuses", create a good environment and a strong atmosphere, and let the reading action truly lay the foundation for promoting the all-round development and healthy growth of students.
8. Science Education Additives
Improve the quality of science education and cultivate fertile soil for cultivating innovative talents
On December 14, 2023, students participated in an electronic production competition at Houping Town Central School in Baokang County, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province.
Background: In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on doing a good job in the addition of science education in the "double reduction" of education, fully implement the requirements of the "Opinions of the Ministry of Education and Other Eighteen Departments on Strengthening Science Education in Primary and Secondary Schools in the New Era", promote the high-quality development of science education, and help build a strong country in education, in 2023, the Ministry of Education decided to launch the national primary and secondary school science education experimental area and experimental school construction project in three batches.
Interpretation: Strengthening science education in the basic education stage is a key measure to improve students' scientific literacy and enrich the reserve of scientific and technological innovation talents. Doing a good job in the addition of science education in the "double reduction" of education, and comprehensively improving the level of scientific education, will help improve the quality and level of science education in primary and secondary schools, improve the training system for young scientific and technological innovation talents, serve the implementation of the trinity strategic layout of education, science and technology, and talents, enhance international competitiveness, and accelerate the construction of an educational power.
9. Student mental health
Strengthen mental health education and cultivate vanguard forces for national rejuvenation with sound personalities
On May 30, 2023, in the No. 1 Middle School of Yunyang District, Shiyan City, Hubei Province, senior high school students released their pressure by placing objects in the school's sand table room.
Background: The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to "promote the construction of a healthy China" and "attach importance to mental health and mental health". In order to conscientiously implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, comprehensively strengthen and improve students' mental health work in the new era, and improve students' mental health literacy, in 2023, the Ministry of Education and other 17 departments issued the "Special Action Plan for Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving Student Mental Health Work in the New Era (2023-2025)", adhering to the educational concept of health first, effectively putting mental health work in a more prominent position, and promoting the coordinated development of students' ideological and moral quality, scientific and cultural quality, and physical and mental health quality. In November 2023, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued a notice on the establishment of the National Student Mental Health Work Advisory Committee, and the Ministry of Education decided to establish a National Student Mental Health Work Advisory Committee in order to effectively play the role of experts in consultation and auxiliary decision-making, and improve the level of scientific decision-making on student mental health work.
Interpretation: At present, strengthening adolescent mental health education has become the consensus of the whole society. Strengthening and improving students' mental health in the new era will help support students to establish a correct outlook on life, values and mental health concepts, improve their self-awareness and self-management capabilities, cultivate students' psychological qualities of loving life, cherishing life, self-esteem and self-confidence, rationality, peace, optimism, and unremitting struggle, honor and disgrace, and indomitable will, fully tap the growth potential of each child, and promote adolescents to meet a bright and brilliant future in a healthy manner.
10. Family-school-community collaborative education
Construct a new pattern of collaborative education, and unite the advantages of the three parties to show synergy
On May 12, 2023, students of Wutasi East Street Primary School in Yuquan District, Hohhot City, invited their mothers to taste the fruit platter they had just put together.
Background: General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the National Education Conference: "Families, schools, governments and society all have responsibilities to run education well. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly requires "improving the social education mechanism of schools and families". In January 2023, the Ministry of Education and other 13 departments jointly issued the "Opinions on Improving the Mechanism of School, Family and Social Collaborative Education", which is an important measure to implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, deepen the comprehensive reform of education, build a good education ecology, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality, and cultivate new people in the era of national rejuvenation.
Interpretation: The key to home-school-community collaborative education lies in "collaboration", and the three jointly serve the core of "education". The cooperation of school, family and society together affects the growth and development of children. In order to maximize the effectiveness of education, it is necessary to integrate the advantages of school, society and family into an organic whole. Home-school-community collaborative education is not only related to the interests of the country and the nation, but also inseparable from the stability of the family and society, and is closely related to socialist modernization. Family education shall actively coordinate with schools to give play to their role as the main front for teaching and educating people, strengthen the establishment of social education resources, and promote schools, families, and society to perform their own duties.