In the afternoon, the 11th meeting of the 11th the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) voted to remove Zhou Ji from the post of Minister of Education and appoint Yuan Guiren as Minister of Education. Yuan Guiren is 59 years old and has never left the field of education in his career. From the age of 19, I worked as a middle school teacher in Guzhen County, Anhui Province. 1978, Yuan Guiren was admitted to the Philosophy Department of Beijing Normal University, and obtained a master's degree six years later. Stay in Beijing Normal University to teach after graduation. Since then, he has served as the director, deputy provost, vice president, party secretary and principal of the school. 200 1 Yuan Guiren was appointed as Vice Minister of Education. Zhou Ji, who claimed to be "dealing with education all his life", was the last batch of college students in China before the Cultural Revolution. Graduated from Tsinghua University, 1980 went to the United States to study, and received a doctorate from new york State University. 1984 After returning to China, Zhou Ji joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology as a teacher. After 13, he became the president of the school and was elected as an academician of China Academy of Engineering. 1999 to 2002, he successively served as member of the Standing Committee of Hubei Provincial Committee, director of Provincial Science and Technology Department, deputy secretary of Wuhan Municipal Committee, deputy mayor and mayor. In 2002, Zhou Ji was appointed Vice Minister of Education, and the following year he succeeded Chen Zhili as Minister of Education. Since 2 1 century, China has made breakthroughs in many aspects of education, achieved the goal of free compulsory education, and completed the historic leap from elite to popularization of higher education. However, there are still many chronic diseases in the field of education that need to be "cured", and the task before Yuan Guiren, the new Minister of Education, is not easy. At present, the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan is being formulated. After Yuan Guiren takes office, the trend of China's education reform will attract much attention. After Yuan Guiren was promoted to minister, there are five deputy ministers in the Ministry of Education of China, namely Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Hao Ping.