Contribute the wisdom of China to the development of global education.
Education is the foundation of China, and China influences the world.
Showing the influence of education on the global stage is an important symbol of a strong educational country.
From the initial stage of reform and opening up, primary education has not been popularized, and by 2023, the gross enrollment rate of pre-school education will reach 91.1%, and 2,895 county-level administrative units across the country will fully realize the basic balance of compulsory education, and the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education will reach 95.7%. Higher education will enter the stage of popularization, and the gross enrollment rate will reach 60.2%… … China, which accounts for nearly one-fifth of the world’s population, has made remarkable achievements in education development. China has built the largest education system in the world, and the level of education popularization has achieved a historic leap. Among them, preschool education and compulsory education have reached the average level of high-income countries in the world, making great contributions to the cause of education for all in the world.
When presiding over the fifth collective study in the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader proposed that we should improve the strategic strategy of education opening to the outside world, co-ordinate the two major articles of "bringing in" and "going out", and make effective use of world-class educational resources and innovative elements, so as to make China an important education center with strong influence in the world. This important exposition has pointed out the direction for speeding up the construction of an educational power and enhancing the international influence of China’s education, and the opening up of education has a new world prospect.
In a developing country with a large population, China’s educational development path has made outstanding contributions to the diversity of world culture and education. Its fundamental value lies in that it has stepped out of a different educational development path, contributed China’s strength to global educational development and contributed China’s plan to global educational governance.
This road contains the silhouette of a country and a nation’s struggle and rich experience, which has set a signpost for the latecomers. For other countries in the world, especially developing countries, this is a rich mine and educational sample with unique enlightenment.
— — Adhere to the strategic understanding of education and give priority to the development of education.
What kind of value does education have in national development, and how does it respond to national development? This is an important issue that every country must consider when developing education, and it is the starting point of educational decision-making.
Ideas and cognition affect the orientation of education. China proved a truth with his own educational development path: education is a "national plan". We must understand the basic role of education from a strategic perspective and give priority to education in action — — Give priority to education in economic and social development planning, give priority to ensuring education in financial investment, and give priority to meeting educational needs in the allocation of public resources. Perhaps this is a difficult course, but when the engine of education sends out a deafening roar, a country and nation will usher in the dawn of hope … …
When we look back at the history of education development in China, we can clearly see this process. Education investment is a basic and strategic investment to support the country’s long-term development, and it is increasingly becoming an important indicator to evaluate whether a country or region gives priority to the development of education. In recent 10 years, public finance in China has given priority to education, and the proportion of national financial education funds to GDP has remained above 4%, which has laid a solid material foundation for the development of education.
With its rapid development, China has proved that it is necessary to adhere to the strategic position of giving priority to education, continuously expand investment in education, and promote the solution of major problems such as low starting point, large base and large regional differences in education reform and development.
Education with priority development will become a "pathfinder" for social development. It conceives the social form for the future development with a pioneering attitude beyond the times.
"Education is the cornerstone of national rejuvenation and social progress." In the new era, the unique position and key role of education in national rejuvenation has reached an unprecedented height. In the new journey, China’s experience of giving priority to education is not only reflected in the strategic planning, financial investment and public resource allocation, but also in emphasizing the basic, leading and overall role of education in economic and social development, focusing on unblocking the virtuous cycle of "trinity" of educational scientific and technological talents, and realizing the comprehensive support of education for high-quality development.
— — Based on the national conditions, take the road of educational development with its own characteristics.
Only by taking root in our national conditions, solving our own problems, and taking root in running education, can education have a broad stage and a strong determination to advance; Only when education is deeply rooted in the national culture and tradition, and cultural self-confidence, can it have a profound foundation and a clear direction.
This is the fundamental basis for the symbiosis between education and national development. Education that is divorced from its own characteristics and reality will not have long-term vitality and the ability to renew and change. It is the path strategy of a country’s educational development to make its own choices based on its unique history, culture and national conditions, strengthen its confidence and establish an educational system based on its own culture and oriented to solving its own problems.
Looking back at the history of development, we can clearly see that when China’s social development faces any problems that need education to serve and support, education will concentrate on promoting the solution of the problems.
There are educational gaps among regions, urban and rural areas, schools and groups, so we will promote the balanced development of education, focus on fair and high-quality education, continuously expand the coverage of high-quality educational resources, establish a basic public education service supply mechanism coordinated with population changes, pay attention to solving the urgent educational problems of the masses, take people’s satisfaction as the basic yardstick to measure the development of education, and integrate the promotion of fairness into all aspects of deepening the comprehensive reform of education;
In order to better serve the economic and social development and consolidate the talent base of manufacturing industry, we will vigorously develop vocational education, actively promote the integration of production and education, science and education, cultivate a modern industrial system while closely serving the industrial development, promote the coordination between vocational education and regional development, and connect with industrial layout, deepen the reform of modern vocational education system construction in provinces, and promote the pilot projects of municipal production and education consortia and industry production and education integration communities to achieve the double promotion of talent training quality and economic and social development;
The times are demanding more and more innovative talents, so we will continue to deepen the comprehensive reform of higher education, take comprehensively improving the quality of self-cultivation of talents and supporting high-level scientific and technological self-reliance as the main direction, promote educational development, scientific and technological innovation and talent cultivation as a whole, promote universities to play an important role in the national innovation system, and achieve a number of major original achievements in quantum science and technology, life science, material science, space science and other fields. The role of high-level research universities as the main force of basic research and the source of major scientific and technological breakthroughs is increasingly prominent & …
These distinctive local practices have effectively solved local problems, promoted China’s educational cause to achieve one historic achievement after another, and provided China’s plan for enriching the development path of world education.
— — Take educational equity as the main theme, and let educational achievements benefit the general public.
Educational equity is the basic index to measure the degree of a country’s civilization, the key issue of educational reform and development, and the vane of a country’s educational value orientation.
Looking at China from the history of world education, a key choice for China to realize education for young children, learning and teaching in such a populous country is that we always regard education equity as the important foundation of social equity and the main theme of education development.
It takes courage and wisdom to start an unprecedented career. China holds the largest education in the world. In different periods, the reality of education equity in China is different, and the paths and methods adopted are also focused. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the students who dropped out of compulsory education have been dynamically cleared, making an important contribution to building a well-off society in an all-round way. On the basis of universal compulsory education, all 2,895 counties in China have achieved a basic balance in compulsory education, which has become another new milestone. The student financial aid policy system, which is led by the government and actively participated by schools and society, has achieved full coverage of "students with financial difficulties in all classes, all schools and all families", and has subsidized nearly 1.3 billion students in ten years, ensuring that "no student will drop out of school or drop out of school because of financial difficulties in his family".
Standing at a new starting point, China has promoted educational equity and satisfied the people’s desire to "study hard" in terms of educational conditions, educational quality and educational security, actively promoted the expansion and improvement of basic education, and accelerated the construction of a high-quality and balanced basic public education service system. Educational equity has a higher standard, newer connotation and broader prospect … … This is an educational equity that emphasizes people’s all-round development, which touches the deep-seated problems of society, and which emphasizes that more and fairer development results benefit all people. China has effectively promoted social equity and justice with educational equity.
— — Promote the digitalization of education and find a new track for educational reform.
The wise change with time, and the wise make it with things.
Since the new century, there has been a global wave of digitalization, especially digital transformation and artificial intelligence, which have become an important carrier and development direction of educational reform worldwide.
Education in China is also looking for a breakthrough.
China regards it as a new track for the development of education by promoting the digitalization of education, empowering the construction of a learning society and strengthening the guarantee of lifelong education.
New track, new action. China took the initiative to change, formulated the strategy of educational digitalization, and implemented the strategic action of educational digitalization. The national smart education platform has become the world’s largest digital center and service platform for educational resources, and everyone can learn everywhere and at all times. International conferences such as the World Digital Education Conference and the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education have been held, the standards and specifications of China’s smart education platform have been released, and the Beijing Consensus and the Shanghai Initiative have been released. The international digital education campaign is in full swing … …
New track, new achievements. In 2023, UNESCO awarded China the National Intelligent Education Platform "Education Informatization Award", in recognition of China’s contribution in promoting public digital learning platform and accessibility of digital content, cultivating digital ability of teachers and students, and promoting universal connectivity in the field of education. With digitalization as a lever, China’s educational reform has instigated global educational reform, created new opportunities and platforms for international cooperation in global digital education, and injected new kinetic energy into achieving the United Nations sustainable development goal in 2030.
New track, new experience. When education is digitized, when the classroom goes to the "cloud", students in the most remote and poverty-stricken areas in China can also share high-quality teachers and courses with students in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, and digitalization has inserted wings for high-quality educational resources, which is far from the future; Accelerators have been installed for the high-quality and balanced development of education, and everyone has benefited.
— — Create a social fashion of respecting teachers and attaching importance to teaching, and adhere to the construction of teachers as the basic work.
Teachers are the key to the rapid development of a country’s education. Thousands of years of civilization have infiltrated. Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, the China government has attached great importance to education, and "respecting teachers and attaching importance to education" has penetrated into the spiritual blood of more than 1.4 billion Chinese.
Respecting teachers and attaching importance to teaching is a universally recognized value concept, and improving the economic and social status of teachers is the key to put the concept into action. On September 10th this year, China will celebrate the 40th Teachers’ Day. Over the past 40 years, Teacher’s Day has become one of the most important public holidays in China, and teachers have become one of the most respected professions in society. If there are many teachers in a family, they will be called "scholarly family" and "teachers’ family", which is highly respected.
The China Municipal Government has put forward its own teacher standards, established and improved the teacher education system with China characteristics, attached importance to teachers’ morality and professionalism, and specially put forward the idea of "educator spirit" to lead teachers’ growth: ideals and beliefs, moral sentiments, educational wisdom, devoted attitude, benevolence, and pursuit of greatness. Six requirements have endowed more than 18 million full-time teachers in China with lofty missions and goals in the new era.
With ideals and beliefs, moral sentiments, solid knowledge and kindness, a good teacher with "four haves" is not only the expectation of the government and people of China for the core literacy that teachers should have, but also the standard portrait of a good teacher in China.
"To ensure that the average salary of teachers is not lower than or higher than that of local civil servants" is a solemn commitment made by China from the central to local governments. The state has issued a series of policies, such as "Opinions on Carrying Forward the Educator’s Spirit and Strengthening the Construction of High-quality Professional Teachers in the New Era", to promote the financial departments at all levels to always give priority to the construction of teachers, and to continuously improve the welfare of teachers, so that teachers can truly become enviable occupations.
Respecting teachers and attaching importance to teaching must take promoting the construction of high-quality teachers as a basic project. As early as 2010, the education and finance departments of China launched the "National Training Plan", aiming at comprehensively improving the overall quality of primary and secondary school teachers, especially rural teachers, and achieved remarkable results.
"It is lucky for a person to meet a good teacher in life. It is the glory of a school to have a good teacher. It is the hope of a nation to have a batch of good teachers." Let the concept of "respecting teachers and attaching importance to education" unite the broadest social consensus, give solid policy and action support to the construction of teachers, and let more people and groups enjoy the opportunity of "knowledge changing their destiny", which is an important success password that China education can share with the whole world.
— — Adhere to mutual integration and exchange, and run education with the attitude of reform and innovation.
The development of education must not be closed, rigid and complacent.
Under the new development pattern, China promotes the education opening to the outside world from the overall situation of the country’s opening to the outside world and from a higher level of the national development strategy, and deeply thinks about the epochal proposition of "what is the world education, what is China" and "what is the education power, what is opening".
The achievements of China’s educational reform and development have benefited from the action strategies of "bringing in" and "going out": strengthening and co-constructing educational exchanges and cooperation among countries along the Belt and Road, actively providing assistance to the international community, especially developing countries, and promoting the building of a community of human destiny; Deepen people-to-people exchanges, especially enhance understanding among teenagers, and promote mutual understanding between people and civilizations … …
Since the new era, we have established ten Sino-Russian, Sino-American, Sino-British, Sino-French and other cultural exchange mechanisms, created brand projects such as Sino-Russian similar university alliance, Sino-French hundred-school exchange program, China-Africa (South) vocational education cooperation alliance, carried out activities such as student innovation leader training camp and youth innovation and entrepreneurship summit forum, and then held cultural year and tourism year with many countries in the world & HELIP; … China has established a multi-level humanities cooperation mechanism with other countries in the world, built more educational cooperation platforms, opened up more channels for educational cooperation, and promoted mutual understanding, mutual respect and mutual trust among different countries, civilizations and users of different languages, so as to expand the building of a community of human destiny from China initiative to international consensus, and transform a beautiful vision into rich practice.
Participation in global education governance is related to the rules and directions of various international education systems, and to the status and role of countries in the long-term institutional arrangements of the international education system. Since the new era, China education has stepped onto the world stage with a more open, confident and active attitude. Promote the "One Belt, One Road" education campaign, promote the "Luban Workshop" to go abroad, and China vocational education standards will enter the national education system of cooperative countries; Shanghai, China, the international STEM Institute of Education, has been established to promote the development of education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics worldwide & HELIP; …
Stand at the forefront of the times and stick to the world. China’s educational ideas, China’s educational wisdom, and China’s educational programs have far-reaching international influence and broad international consensus. The key lies in starting from the common interests of all mankind and responding to the universal demands of people from all countries for development and cooperation.
Be good at chess and games, and make a move.
High-level education opening to the outside world is an important way to promote the exchange and mutual learning of human civilization, and it is also an inevitable choice for China to build a powerful country in education, science and technology and talents. From drawing lessons from and using international education standards to publishing its own education standards to the world, China’s ability to participate in global education governance is getting stronger and stronger, and its confidence is getting stronger and stronger, pushing global education towards a fairer and better future.
First, we should grasp the initiative, make overall plans to promote the construction of world important talent centers, innovative places and world important education centers, and create new opportunities for world development with China’s own development.
If China is good, the world will be better. It is an important value of China’s education opening to the outside world to always put its own development in the coordinate system of human development and constantly provide new opportunities for the world with the new development of China.
Facing the future, we should promote the cause of educational science and technology talents, cultivate global talents with strong educational strength, promote global scientific and technological breakthroughs and innovations with a steady stream of talents, lead global educational governance with innovation, and inject stronger impetus into world prosperity and stability.
We must improve the strategy of opening up education. In terms of "bringing in", we should focus on the world’s scientific and technological frontiers and areas with educational advantages, and connect with domestic weaknesses, gaps, intersections and shortages. On "going out", we should actively promote China’s educational ideas and models to the international community.
International scientific and technological innovation cooperation must be carried out at a higher level. It is necessary to thoroughly implement international scientific and technological cooperation initiatives, broaden channels for exchanges and cooperation between the government and the people, take the lead in organizing major international scientific plans and projects, and support researchers from various countries to jointly tackle key problems. Actively integrate into the global innovation network and join hands with other countries to create an open, fair, just and non-discriminatory international environment for scientific and technological development.
We must give priority to the development of human resources. Adhere to the global vision and introduce talents in urgent need and shortage. Cultivate more talents with international competence. Implement a more active, open and effective talent policy, accelerate the formation of an internationally competitive talent system, and make good use of global talents.
Second, we must consolidate the foundation, focus on promoting exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations, enhance mutual understanding and blind date among people of all countries, and promote the building of a community of human destiny through educational exchanges and cooperation.
"Eli intersects, and profit is scattered; Intersecting with potential, the potential will be tilted; Only when you meet with your heart can you be long-lasting. " Promoting exchanges and mutual learning can’t be separated from planting a strong foundation of public opinion and building a stronger emotional foundation for China’s in-depth participation in global education governance.
Take the top-level design as the guide. It is necessary to improve the top-level design of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, implement the high-level cultural exchange mechanism, make good use of high-end platform resources, further improve the mechanism construction of high-level intergovernmental consultation on education, pragmatic cooperation among professionals in the field of education, and friendly exchanges between students, build a global educational partnership, and expand the circle of friends in education.
Focus on youth groups. Youth is the future of society and the key to inherit and develop friendly relations between countries. It is necessary to build more communication platforms for young people, create more opportunities for cooperation, and train messengers who know, love and love China.
Take international communication as the guarantee. Storytelling is the best exchange and mutual learning. We should seize the critical opportunity period of communication, tell the educational story of China well, spread the educational voice of China well, and show the real, three-dimensional and comprehensive educational image of China to the world.
Third, we must find the right fulcrum, uphold the concept of global governance, and judge the situation to promote the idea of helping global education governance.
Looking for a stable partner. Cooperation with educational international organizations is an important way for China to participate in global education governance. It is necessary to further deepen cooperation with UNESCO, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and other important international organizations to help emerging market players and developing countries gain more recognition in international organizations.
Make good use of key platforms. We should make good use of the "Belt and Road" platform and actively participate in bilateral, multilateral, global and regional educational cooperation. The International STEM Education Research Institute is a new window for China’s education to talk with the world, and through it, it shares China’s STEM education ideas and practices, and contributes China’s wisdom and China’s strength to the global education development.
Find the right entrance. In the field of education, we should focus on the ethical and safety issues in the application of artificial intelligence in education, and make use of China’s advantageous resource endowments related to educational digitalization to further promote China standards to the world and influence the world.
The journey is dangerous, and the road ahead is magnificent.
At present, global education governance is facing many challenges. In the turbulent times, China firmly implements the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talents and innovation-driven development based on the high-quality development of its own education, and promotes the development of education, scientific and technological innovation and talent training in an integrated way. While developing itself, it enhances the international influence and leading force of education, makes great efforts to promote the opening up of high-level education, and strives to relieve the difficulties of world development through opening up, pool the power of world cooperation, and gather the trend of world innovation through opening up.