Xinhua News Agency Beijing, October 2, Question: "If you have to learn, you have to "go to study well"
Xinhua News Agency reporters Xu Zhuang, Tan Chang, Bai Jiali
Education is the future of the country and the nation. In the yearning for a better life, the people hope for better education.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has given priority to education, accelerated the modernization of education, and provided education that satisfies the people. From emphasizing "learning to learn" to pursuing "good schooling", from encouraging "everyone strives to become a talent" to looking forward to "everyone can show their talents", my country's nine-year compulsory education has been fully consolidated, and higher education has entered the stage of popularization, and vocational education provides more people with a platform for learning progress.
Learning has something to teach and learning has good teaching. Education is changing the destiny of countless people and helping to realize the dreams of countless people.
allows every child to enjoy fair and quality education
"We must fully implement the Party's education policy, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, deepen education reform, promote the integrated and balanced development of urban and rural compulsory education, and maintain educational equity." - Xi Jinping
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This summer, Zhu Ziyou, a sixth-grade student in Shazhou Furong School (Wenming Yao Ethnic Township Central Primary School), Rucheng County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, has a new entertainment project - in the inflatable swimming pool just built by the school, play with friends and enjoy the coolness of summer.
In September last year, Shazhou Furong School was officially launched. The school has a total construction area of more than 13,000 square meters, with 24 teaching classes and thousands of degrees, and can provide formal education for primary school students in surrounding villages such as Shazhou, Hantian, Xiushui, May Day, and Xindong.
Zhu Ziyou is one of the students who transferred from a nearby primary school to a new campus. "Such a large playground and such a beautiful environment, you are also very motivated to learn," she said excitedly.
In the classroom of Shazhou Furong School, dust-free magnetic blackboard, interactive teaching all-in-one machine, water dispenser, eye protection light and other equipment are available. Each student dormitory is equipped with a toilet, shower and toilet.
At Shazhou Furong School, Rucheng County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, students have lunch in the cafeteria (photo taken on January 4, 2022). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Zeguo
"Now the schooling conditions of rural children are no worse than those of urban children." Zhong Huaping, the principal of Shazhou Furong School, who has been teaching for more than 20 years, said with emotion.
Since 2017, Hunan Province has focused on building 101 compulsory education schools in rural poverty-stricken areas and was uniformly named "Furong School".
In order to ensure the quality of teaching, Hunan Province has equipped the school with a high-quality teacher team through preferential support from public-funded targeted teacher training and the "National Training Program". Each Furong school also has a high-quality school as a pairing assistance unit.
At present, all these Furong schools have been put into use, with 146,000 new degrees added, playing an important role in children in rural areas enjoying high-quality educational resources equally.
[Ten Years of Changes]
Over the past decade, our country has better guaranteed the people's education opportunities and effectively alleviated the education issues that the masses are very concerned about. On the basis of achieving full popularization, the consolidation rate of 's nine-year compulsory education reached 95.4%, an increase of 3.6% from ten years ago. The popularity of preschool education and compulsory education has reached the average level of high-income countries in the world. All 2,895 counties across the country have achieved basic balance in compulsory education, and 99.8% of primary and secondary schools have reached the "20 bottom lines" requirements. The school's appearance has fundamentally improved, forming a new situation of balanced and integrated development of urban and rural compulsory education.
Let more students in rural areas realize their university dreams
"Accelerate the construction of first-class universities and first-class disciplines, and achieve the connotation-oriented development of higher education. Improve the student aid system, so that the vast majority of urban and rural new labor forces can receive high school education and more higher education." - Xi Jinping
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Walked out of the mountains of Guizhou, and the twin brothers He Zhonghao and He Zhongjie look forward to going to Guangdong to see the sea.
They are from Tiechang Village, Yunwu Town, Guiding County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. In September this year, the two brothers left their hometown and came to Guangzhou Sun Yat-sen University to report.
The road to study in Shanliwa is as rugged as a mountain road.In the first grade of junior high school, Zhonghao and Zhongjie's parents decided to go out to work to support the two brothers in school. From then on, the little boy can only support and take care of each other's study and life.
Work together, do questions together, play basketball together, share a mobile phone... Six years of hard work will eventually be rewarded. The two brothers were admitted to the Sun Yat-sen University with a college entrance examination score of 608 points in science and 596 points in science, which became a local talk.
Zhonghao and Zhongjie were able to realize their dreams. In addition to studying hard, they also had policy support, thanks to national special plan .
Many rural students in the central and western regions have faced such a dilemma - no matter how hard they work, the opportunity to go to college, especially to a good university, is always "congenital deficiencies".
This is an imposition photo. The picture above shows: In Habaotun, Nonglei Village, Bansheng Township, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi, 11-year-old Meng Qiuyan rests on the edge of the cliff. This half-mountain cliff, about 300 meters long, is the road she has to walk every day during her elementary school (photo taken by Huang Xiaobang, Xinhua News Agency reporter, September 5, 2012); the picture below shows: Meng Qiuyan, who has realized her dream of university, studied at Guangxi Medical University , which is her study in the school's voice studio (Xinhua News Agency, photographed by Wei Tingting on September 5, 2022). Xinhua News Agency issued
In 2012, my country began to implement a special plan for key universities to recruit students from rural and poor areas. Sun Yat-sen University is one of the largest "Double First-Class" universities in special enrollment scale.
Under the escort of a special plan, more and more rural students like He Zhonghao and He Zhongjie have the opportunity to go to college and go to a good university.
[Ten Years of Changes]
Over the past decade, the total number of higher education institutions in my country has increased by more than 11 million, and the gross enrollment rate of has increased by 27.8%, and higher education has achieved a transition from popularization to popularization. By improving the allocation method of college entrance examination enrollment plans, urban and rural admission opportunities in the region are more equitable: Continue to implement the enrollment cooperation plan to support the central and western regions; continue to implement the special plan for key universities to recruit students in rural and poor areas, and the enrollment quota increased from 10,000 in 2012 to 131,000 in 2022, and a total of more than 950,000 students were admitted, forming a long-term mechanism to ensure that students in rural and poor areas go to key universities.
Let everyone have the opportunity to shine in life
"We must firmly grasp the direction of running schools that serve development and promote employment, and strive to build a vocational education system with Chinese characteristics. We must increase support for vocational education in rural areas, ethnic areas, and poor areas, and strive to make everyone have the opportunity to shine in life." - Xi Jinping
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Tianjin Mechanical and Electrical Vocational and Technical College Training Teacher, He Linfeng has witnessed countless highlight moments of vocational education.
14 years ago, He Linfeng, who studied at Tianjin Mechanical and Electrical Vocational and Technical College, won the award at of the National Vocational College Skills Competition. In 2011, after graduating from undergraduate studies, he returned to his alma mater and became a training teacher.
He Linfeng still remembers that when he was a teacher, the school’s training equipment was not only small in number, but also lagging in the updates, which seriously affected the teaching effect.
"It's different now!" He Linfeng said proudly that the school equips each major with advanced training equipment that meets employment needs, and students can "get it right after graduation."
What makes He Linfeng more pleased is the changes in people.
He mentioned his favorite student Zhang Bo —Not long ago, the two joined hands with their Portuguese teammates to form a joint team and won the silver medal in the first World Vocational College Skills Competition Intelligent Production Line Installation and Debugging Competition.
At the first World Vocational and Technical Education Development Conference held in Tianjin, contestants operated robotic equipment before the sand table of training (photo taken on August 20, 2022). Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Fanyue Photo by
Relying on "world-level" technology, Zhang Bo was quickly hired by a manufacturing company in Tianjin.
"Only by making what students learn truly meet the needs of the industry can students find jobs and get good jobs." Wang Weiyuan, vice president of Tianjin Mechanical and Electrical Vocational and Technical College, introduced that the implementation rate of the school's 2022 graduates' destinations exceeds 90%.
As a national demonstration zone for modern vocational education reform and innovation, since 2012, the number of graduates from secondary vocational colleges and higher vocational colleges in Tianjin has reached 950,000, and has also trained more than 10,000 teachers in 19 provinces in the central and western regions.
[Ten Years of Changes]
Over the past decade, my country has vigorously developed vocational education and accelerated the construction of a modern vocational education system. In 2021, higher vocational schools (junior colleges) enrolled 5.526 million students, 1.8 times that of ten years ago; the number of internship and training bases jointly built with enterprises increased by 8.6% per year; secondary and higher vocational schools (excluding technical school ) have trained a total of more than 79 million graduates, providing more than 70% of new employees for modern manufacturing , strategic emerging industries and modern service industries. Today, the country has basically achieved at least one secondary vocational school in each county and at least one higher vocational school in each prefecture and city, and the role of vocational education in serving regional economic and social development is more prominent.
