"In today's world, almost all countries, regions and ethnic groups are striving for faster and better development paths. The new technological revolution has made people realize that economic and social development cannot be separated from education. In the past, a country was only measured by economic indicators, but now it is measured by comprehensive national strength. Comprehensive national strength consists of viability (the ability of safe survival and self-defense), development ability (comprehensive development ability) and coordination ability (the ability of national leading groups to optimize their internal and external combinations and coordinate and unify). Including resources, economy, science and technology, education, culture, national defense, diplomacy and politics. The essence of international competition is based on economic competition and scientific and technological competition, but in the final analysis, it is the competition between human quality and education. Educational reform has become a common concern of all countries in the world. Because of this, the top leaders of some countries have personally asked about education, and education has increasingly become a strategic focus in social development.

Second, the strategic position of modern education in China's socialist construction

1. Science and technology are the key to socialist modernization, and education is the foundation of socialist modernization.

Deng Xiaoping pointed out, "The key for us to realize the four modernizations is that science and technology should go up, and it is impossible to develop science and technology without paying attention to education." Giving priority to the development of science and technology and education, and shifting economic construction to the track of relying on scientific and technological progress and improving the quality of workers is an important development of the guiding ideology of socialist construction in China. Fundamentally speaking, education is the basic project of socialist modernization and an important guarantee to promote the sustained, stable and coordinated development of the national economy.

After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party from 65438 to 0978, the focus of the Party's work shifted to socialist modernization, and the understanding of the role of education in the four modernizations continued to deepen. From 65438 to 0982, the Twelfth National Congress of the Communist Party of China has clearly put forward that education should be the "strategic focus" of China's socialist economic construction. 1985 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China pointed out in his decision on the reform of the education system that "education must serve socialist construction, and socialist construction must rely on education". 65438-0987 The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that education should be placed in a "prominent strategic position" and put forward "a century-long plan, with education as the foundation". 1992 The 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China once again pointed out that "science and technology are the primary productive forces". Scientific and technological progress, economic prosperity and social development fundamentally depend on the improvement of the quality of workers. To train a large number of talents, we must give priority to education in a strategic position, and strive to improve the ideological, moral, scientific and cultural level of the whole nation, which is the "fundamental plan" to realize China's modernization. It is precisely because of the great significance of education to China's social modernization that the future development of education will be moderately ahead of economic development, which is one of the characteristics of modern education.

To realize social modernization, we must rely on modern education to train modern people.

Modernization is a complicated social process and the result of the interaction and coordinated development of modern society, modern people and modern education. Social modernization includes not only the modernization of material production and system, but also the modernization of people (spiritual modernization). Modern people are the main body of material production modernization and system modernization, and human modernization can only be cultivated through modern education.

Science and technology, the most prominent symbol of modernization, can be introduced from abroad, and advanced and effective industrial management methods, education system, curriculum content and so on can be transplanted. However, it is necessary to make production workers become the implementers and users of the system through continuing education, and experience modern changes in psychology, thought, attitude and behavior. In the socialist society of China, apart from the common features of modernization, such as openness, pioneering, creativity, sense of time, efficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-discipline, self-improvement, sense of responsibility, sense of group, etc. People's modernization should also require correct ideals, beliefs and values, patriotism, collectivism and socialist ideology and morality, and be able to resist the decay of capitalism and feudalism. Only in this way can we take the initiative in the new scientific and technological revolution and economic and political competition. Without education and human modernization, it is impossible for China to enter the advanced ranks in the world.

Therefore, the realization of modernization is a complex social process in which modern society, people and education interact, in which people are an important part of modernization and people's modernization plays a key role, so we should pay special attention to the role of modern schools in people's modernization.