1. More than ten years ago, Comrade Li Xigui, the former director of Weifang Education, was transferred to the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education for his outstanding achievements in teaching and research reform and education management, and became a well-known expert in basic education in China. Now he is the principal of Beijing No.11 Middle School (see the picture below).
2. The high school education level in Weifang can be seen from the chart below.
3. In the survey of the satisfaction of the masses in the comprehensive economic and social assessment of Shandong Province, Weifang Education ranked first for five consecutive years (see the figure below).
The economic base determines the superstructure, and the superstructure reacts on the economic base. The practice of Weifang's educational development also proves this point. The successive party committees and governments in Weifang attached great importance to the development of education while paying attention to the development of economy, and realized the synchronous development of education and economy and society, even ahead of schedule.
Attaching importance to education must attach importance to talents. The cultivation of top students, the export, storage, introduction and utilization of a large number of talents (they either return to Weifang after their studies or offer suggestions for their hometown through various means) have boosted Weifang's economic take-off, thus realizing a virtuous circle of education and economic and social development. At present, all kinds of schools in Weifang are in the forefront of the whole province and the whole country in terms of school buildings, teachers, instruments and equipment, modern teaching methods and humanized management, and have become national modern education demonstration areas.