"Seeking Truth" magazine published General Secretary Xi Jinping's important article "Solidly Promoting the Construction of a Powerful Educational Country"

The 18th issue of "Seeking Truth" published on September 16 will publish an important article by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, "Solidly Promoting the Construction of a Powerful Educational Country."

The article emphasizes 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 for building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, an important support for achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, an effective way to promote the common prosperity of all people, and a basic project for comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.

The article pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has insisted on taking education as the country's major plan and the party's major plan, and made major decisions to accelerate the modernization of education and build an education power, and promote historic achievements and pattern changes in education in the new era. China has built the largest education system in the world, and the overall level of educational modernization has entered the ranks of the countries in the world. This fully proves that the development path of socialist education with Chinese characteristics is completely correct. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China laid out the education and science and technology talents in separate chapters, which sounded the clarion call to accelerate the construction of a powerful education country. The education power we want to build is a socialist education power with Chinese characteristics. We must adhere to the party's overall leadership of education as the fundamental guarantee, establish morality and cultivate people as the fundamental task, and educate people for the party and the country as the fundamental goal. Serving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is an important mission, and the basic path is the modernization of educational concepts, systems, systems, content, methods, and governance, the core function of supporting and leading Chinese-style modernization is ultimately to run a satisfactory education for the people.

The article pointed out that it is necessary to fully implement the party's education policy, adhere to the people-centered development of education, take the initiative to advance the layout, effectively respond to changes, strive to open up new developments, accelerate the modernization of education, and use the power of education to cultivate the foundation of people's happiness. The strength of education consolidates the foundation of the country's prosperity and strength, and provides strong support for the comprehensive promotion of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. First, cultivate new people of the era who are responsible for national rejuvenation. What kind of people to train, how to train people, and for whom to train people are the fundamental issues of education, and it is also the core issue of building an educational power. The purpose of building a powerful country in education is to train generation after generation of socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, and to train generation after generation of talents who can be used and shoulder heavy responsibilities in the socialist modernization drive, so as to ensure that there are successors to the cause of the party and the construction of a modern and powerful socialist country. Second, accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system. We must persist in taking high-quality development as the lifeline of all levels and types of education, accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system, and empower sustainable economic and social development with high-quality education development. Third, comprehensively improve the ability of high-quality development of education services. To serve high-quality development as an important task of building a strong education country. Building a powerful country in education, science and technology, and talent has inherent consistency and mutual support. It is necessary to organically combine the three and promote them as a whole to form a multiplier effect that promotes high-quality development. Fourth, stimulate the vitality of education development in deepening reform and innovation. From a big education country to a powerful education country is a systematic leap and qualitative change, which must be driven by reform and innovation. Fifth, enhance the international influence of China's education. It is necessary to improve the strategy of opening up education to the outside world, make overall plans for 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. Sixth, cultivate high-quality teachers. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of the teaching team as the most important basic work for building a powerful education country, improve the teacher education system with Chinese characteristics, and vigorously cultivate a team of high-quality professional teachers with noble ethics, exquisite business, reasonable structure, and full of vitality.

The article emphasizes that building a strong country through education is the common task of the whole Party and the whole society. It is necessary to uphold and strengthen the party's overall leadership over education work, and constantly improve the education leadership system under the unified leadership of the party committee, the party and the government, and the departments. We must strengthen our confidence, work for a long time, and work together to achieve the goal of strengthening the country through education as soon as possible.

 

Source: Xinhua News Agency