Dahe.com (Reporters Shen Hua and Wang Yixiao) On October 12, a special press conference on the theme of "Henan's Ten Years" series of high-quality development of education was held, focusing on introducing the main achievements made in Henan's education work since the 18th Nation

Dahe.com (Reporters Shen Hua and Wang Yixiao) On October 12, a special press conference on the theme series of education high-quality development was held, focusing on introducing the main achievements made in Henan's education work since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and answering questions from reporters on related issues.

In the past ten years, Henan's education funding investment has nearly doubled. Compulsory education has entered a new stage of high-quality and balanced development. At the press conference, Yin Hongbin, full-time deputy secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Education Working Committee, introduced that over the past ten years, Henan's education funding investment has increased from 146.6 billion yuan in 2012 to 277.5 billion yuan last year. Among them, fiscal education funding investment has increased from 110.6 billion yuan in 2012 to 192.7 billion yuan last year, an increase of nearly 90% in the past ten years. There are 51,100 schools at all levels and types in the province, with an education population of 28.88 million and 26.95 million students. The number of people receiving higher education per 10,000 increased from 149 in 2012 to 270. The gross enrollment rate of preschool education, compulsory education consolidation rate, and high school gross enrollment rate of increased from 66.63%, 91.2%, and 90.02% in 2012 to 90.8%, 96.1% and 92.5%, respectively, which exceeded the national average. 158 counties (cities, districts) in the province have passed the national basic balanced assessment and acceptance of compulsory education and entered a new stage of high-quality balanced development. The number of secondary vocational schools has been adjusted from 920 in 2012 to 632, with 1.51 million students, ranking first in the country. Henan has become one of the seven provinces in which the ministry and provinces jointly build a national highland for vocational education innovation and development. Yellow River Water Conservancy Vocational and Technical College was shortlisted for the 10 "world-class" higher vocational colleges built by the state. The number of general colleges and universities increased from 120 to 156, and the gross enrollment rate increased from 27.22% in 2012 to 53.13% last year, entering the stage of popularization. Zhengzhou University and Henan University have entered the ranks of the national " Double First-Class " construction, and the creation of "Double First-Class" in 11 disciplines in 7 universities is progressing steadily. Five new doctoral authorized universities and three master authorized universities have been added in the province, and the number of doctoral and master enrollment has increased by 206% and 161% respectively. Projects such as the construction of provincial characteristic backbone universities and characteristic backbone disciplines have been implemented, and 58 disciplines have entered the top 1% of ESI's global rankings.

Basic education: Education investment continues to increase. Henan has become a nationally recognized province for high-quality students in colleges and universities.

"Take 2021 as an example, the total annual investment in basic education in the province reached 192.7 billion yuan, an increase of 149% from ten years ago." Mao Jie, member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of the Provincial Department of Education, introduced in his answer to reporters' questions that Henan has promoted the "promoting quality" of basic education in the past ten years, and has implemented three preschool education action plans. The number of kindergartens in the province has reached 24,400, and the gross enrollment rate of preschool education has reached 90.8%, which is 2.7 percentage points higher than the national level. Continue to implement the plan to expand urban compulsory education resources and improve weak links of compulsory education and improve capacity projects. The consolidation rate of compulsory education in nine years of reached 96.1%, 0.7 percentage points higher than the national level. All 158 counties (cities, districts) in the province have achieved basic balance in compulsory education. The general high school renovation plan and general high school construction projects in counties with weak educational foundations have been continuously implemented, and the operating conditions of ordinary high schools have been significantly improved, and the gross enrollment rate in high school reached 92.5%, 1.1 percentage points higher than the national average. At the same time, we should pay attention to internal construction and run every "school at home". Continue to implement the "1256 Project" for general high schools, focusing on cultivating diversified development of general high schools, demonstration schools for the implementation of new curriculum and new textbooks, and provincial subject bases. "Our province has become a nationally recognized province for high-quality students in universities," said Mao Jie.

Vocational Education: The "Henan Plan" for skill development, skills gaining wealth, and serving the country is in full swing

At the press conference, Chen Yinting, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Education, introduced in his answer to reporters' questions that in the past ten years, Henan has implemented the vocational education plan with the strength of "one meeting every year, one document every year, and an investment of 10 billion yuan per year", creating a national vocational education innovation and development highland, and obtained the first batch of incentive notices for vocational education reform and development of the State Council. Over the past ten years, vocational colleges in the province have trained nearly 9 million high-quality technical and skilled talents, ranking first in the country in total, of which 27 higher vocational schools have increased, and the number of students in school has doubled compared with ten years ago. More than 70% of the new front-line practitioners in Henan Province come from vocational colleges, and the contribution of vocational education to economic and social development has been continuously improved.The registration rate of new students in higher vocational colleges in the province has increased from less than 80% ten years ago to more than 95%, and the number of students in higher vocational colleges has accounted for half of the province's higher education.

opens up the "last mile" of production-education integration , school-enterprise cooperation, connects with "one county and one provincial development zone", strengthens the construction of vocational education parks, and focuses on cultivating a number of distinctive and famous Henan vocational education brands such as " Luohe Food", " Changyuan Cooking", "Linzhou Construction Engineering", "Zhenping Jade Carving", " Pingyu Waterproofing". Henan Vocational University of Science and Technology was approved as the first batch of undergraduate vocational education pilot schools in the country, breaking the "ceiling" of Henan vocational education stopping at the junior college level. The education system conducts skill training every year, and 400,000 people participated in the pilot work of the 1+X certificate system, with the largest pilot scale in the country, allowing more workers to achieve skill employment, increase their income, and become rich in skills.

Higher Education: Strive to enter the "Double First-Class" and improve the overall level of school management and talent training

At the press conference, Diao Yuhua, member of the Party Leadership Group, Deputy Director and First-level Inspector of the Provincial Department of Education, in response to reporters' questions, that over the past 10 years, Henan's general colleges and universities have increased from 120 to 156, the number of students in ordinary undergraduate and junior colleges has increased from 1.559 million to 2.6864 million, and the number of graduate students in school has increased from 32,000 to 79,700, and the gross enrollment rate has increased from 27.22% to 53.13%. Henan higher education has achieved a historic leap from "popularization" to "popularization".

In the future, what other better higher education will Henan students enjoy? In the next step, Henan will take multiple measures to increase investment and build new schools, integrate resources and focus on building new research universities such as electronic technology, aerospace, and high-level Sino-foreign cooperative universities, restore and rebuild Zhang Zhongjing National Medical University , strengthen and improve science and engineering universities, run comprehensive universities well, and make up for the shortcomings in undergraduate education such as medicine, physical, music, and foreign languages.

At the same time, we strive to strive for more universities to be the first-class in their respective fields. We will make every effort to improve the quality and advance the "Double First-Class" construction in the construction of "Double First-Class", vigorously promote the construction of 11 "Double First-Class" disciplines, strive to enter the ranks of "Double First-Class" construction, increase efforts to adjust and optimize the structure of the academic and professionals of the disciplines, build a community of "College, Discipline Research Institute, and Industrial Research Institute", build a strong first-class undergraduate major, and improve the overall level of school management and talent training.