The first draft of the concept report was completed in Shanghai, and an academic version was prepared in advance. China is accelerating the development of the Outline of the Plan for Building an Education Strong Country. Concept | Education | Outline
China has built the world's largest education system, and the overall level of modernization in education has entered the ranks of middle and upper tier countries in the world. According to calculations, China's education powerhouse index currently ranks 23rd in the world, up 26 places from 2012, making it the country with the fastest progress.
To build a strong country, planning comes first. At the beginning of this month, the Party group of the Ministry of Education clearly stated that it is necessary to accelerate the development of the outline of the plan for building an education strong country, clarify the timetable, refine the roadmap, and actively promote various reform tasks. The relevant meeting proposed to "consolidate the wisdom and strength of the entire front line to promote the planning and design work of building an education strong country, with great ideological liberation and innovative ideas, to prepare a high-quality and high-level plan for building an education strong country." It is reported that the "Outline of the Plan for Building an Education Strong Country" has completed the initial draft of the concept report in Shanghai, achieving phased results.
The Politburo of the CPC Central Committee recently held its fifth collective study on building an educational power, Xinhua reported. When presiding over the study, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, stressed that if education is prosperous, the country will be prosperous, and if education is strong, the country will be strong. Building a powerful country in education is the strategic forerunner of building a modern socialist power in an all-round way, an important support for achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, and an effective way to promote the common prosperity of all the people. it is the basic project to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way with Chinese-style modernization. Ke Zheng, executive director of the National Institute of Education Macro Policy of East China normal University, said, "We should deeply study the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, carry out academic research on this basis, and make theoretical contributions." strive to complete the task of compiling the outline of the plan with high quality. "
Jiefang Daily's Shangguan News reporter learned that the preparation work of the "Outline of the Plan for Building an Education Strong Country" undertaken by the National Institute of Education Macro Policy has recently completed the initial draft of the concept report and plans to seek opinions from relevant parties and experts and scholars. Since March this year, East China Normal University has taken on the preparation of the Ministry of Education's "Outline of the Plan for Building an Education Strong Country". It has fully leveraged its advantages in teacher education and educational research, focused on the era of "building a strong country and what education is", integrated relevant disciplinary resources and expert forces throughout the school, set forward-looking, targeted, and reserved policy research goals, conducted in-depth research and actively served "the leaders of the country", and contributed wisdom to the construction of an education strong country.
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It is worth noting that in addition to the "elite" team on campus, the research team also brings together experts and scholars from universities such as Peking University, Nanjing University, Shanghai Institute of Education Sciences, and Shenzhen University. They work day and night to carry out scientific research and research, constructing an analytical framework in the long-term historical scale and broad perspective of cross-border comparisons over the past few hundred years. They systematically collect empirical evidence, historical facts, and cases from around the world, and interview a group of top experts in the scientific and technological, academic, and business circles, using solid facts and data to support their views. After a long period of research, discussion, and data mining, the research results are gradually being condensed.
"The preparation of the Outline of the Plan for Building an Education Powerful Country can be seen as a project in itself, but we can't rush to 'construction'. Instead, we should first think about the basic theory of building an education powerful country, understand the source and underlying problems, so the research team decided to issue a concept report first." Professor Ke Zheng said that the concept report is to clearly and directly explain the core ideas of some of the most basic theoretical issues, such as what is an education powerful country, the basic laws of building an education powerful country, the role and mechanism of education to support Chinese path to modernization, and make innovative understanding of the issues, so as to drive planning innovation through theoretical innovation, and then drive policy practice innovation.
During the specific preparation process, in the Gezhi Building on the banks of the Liwa River, the National Education Macro Policy Research Institute, which was responsible for the preparation task, transformed the conference room into a "Outline Development Operations Room", established a special team for work, and carried out map based operations. In addition to the densely packed research tasks on the drawing board, the 16 big characters written on the wall of the combat room, "Embracing the overall situation, pursuing excellence, respecting science, and not afraid of hardship," are particularly eye-catching.
For example, in this speech, it was mentioned that "targeted training of national strategic talents and urgently needed talents", and the specific important institutional frameworks to be built are all good research topics.
