China Education News - China Education News Network (reporter Ren Zhaoxia) Recently, the Annual meeting of the National Education Macro Policy Forum (2022) was held in East China Normal University. Focusing on the theme of "Building a powerful education country in the context of common prosperity", experts and scholars in various disciplines such as education, economics, philosophy, sociology, political science, demography and public policy will collide and discuss important theoretical and policy issues in the construction of a powerful education country.
Liu Changya, Director of the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Education, pointed out in his speech that common prosperity is not only an important content of Chinese-style modernization, but also an essential requirement of Chinese-style modernization. The grand goal of common prosperity has put forward new requirements for education, and accelerating the construction of a powerful education country in the new era and steadily promoting common prosperity will provide basic and strategic support for Chinese-style modernization.
Lu Xin, president of China Vocational and Technical Education Association and former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education, made a report on "Common Prosperity: Contribution and Mission of vocational education", explaining how modern vocational education can serve the Party's second centennial goal from the perspectives of new orientation, new pattern, new mission, new value, new concept, new language, new ecology and so on.
Cheng Yuechong, Vice governor of Zhejiang Province, introduced the practice and thinking of Zhejiang to gradually build a high-quality education system and promote the process of education strengthening province by focusing on the goal of quality balance, highlighting the integration of production and education, taking extraordinary measures, vigorously developing lifelong education and strengthening digital empowerment.
Zhou Hongyu, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Hubei Provincial People's Congress and a professor of Central China Normal University, pointed out that a powerful country in education can be defined as a country with strong and significant educational comprehensive strength, educational innovation ability, talent cultivation and contribution ability of educational services, educational governance ability, international competitiveness of education and educational influence. There are also some commonly used indicators to measure the power of education, such as enrollment rate, years of education, investment, equipment and facilities, teacher-student ratio, school size, and so on.
Yao Yang, dean of the National School of Development at Peking University, believes that in order to promote common prosperity, we cannot simply do redistribution, and the first issue of common prosperity is to achieve equity in education.
Tong Shijun, president of New York University Shanghai, thought about how education can contribute to common prosperity from a philosophical perspective, and believed that we are now in the stage of "rich and teach", and then we should further consider "teach and teach", that is, make individuals more dignified through education.
Hu Angang, dean of the Institute of National Conditions of Tsinghua University, pointed out that the modernization of Chinese education has two important characteristics of socialist factors and Chinese cultural factors, its essence should be the modernization of the people, should invest in the people, must advance development, give play to its basic, leading, long-term, cumulative functions, so as to support the Chinese modernization.
Yuan Zhenguo, tenure-track professor and director of the Department of Education at East China Normal University, pointed out that index-based research is important, but not enough, for the discussion of education power. We should look at the future education power from the perspective of development, and improve the breadth, depth, height and continuity of education development.
In the "Collision of ideas" segment, the forum set up four topics: "The connotation, characteristics and essential requirements of the modernization of Chinese education and the construction of a strong education country", "the ideological, population and talent basis of the construction of a strong education country", "the mechanism and path of a strong education country to promote common prosperity", and "Education to forge a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation and common prosperity of spiritual civilization". Discuss the key issues of building an education powerhouse in the context of common prosperity. The Forum also set up an exchange session for young experts from education strategy think tanks, inviting 51 young scholars from all over the country to participate in the exchange.
