The second is to regard reform and innovation as a powerful driving force for the sound and rapid development of education and persist in reform and innovation.

Third, take improving quality as the core task of education reform and development, and fully implement quality education.

Fourth, we should regard promoting educational equity as the basic educational policy of the country, adhere to the public welfare of education, and strive to run a satisfactory education for the people.

At present, the country is studying and formulating the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan, which will make a comprehensive arrangement for the education development and reform in China before 2020. This is a great strategic opportunity to promote the educational reform and development in China in the new century.

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The main problems in the development of education in China

At present, the main problems in China's education development are caused by structural imbalance, which restricts the overall improvement of population education quality. Therefore, optimizing the educational structure, especially optimizing the input of educational public resources, is the core task to improve the quality of education.

(A) unbalanced development of regional education. The development of compulsory education, especially in rural areas, plays a key role in the overall level and structure of education development. The financial situation and payment ability of county-level units have become an important determinant of the development level of compulsory education. Through the decomposition of the inequality index of education level, it is found that the difference of education level among provinces is not significant, accounting for less than 30% of the total difference. However, the differences between counties in the province are very obvious, and 70% of the overall educational differences stem from the imbalance of educational development among counties. It can be seen that how to give full play to the role of county-level government in education development will be the main aspect to solve the regional imbalance in education development in the future.

(B) the imbalance between different stages of education. After the mid-1990s, with the development of higher education, the investment in higher education has been increased and great progress has been made. In the limited education funds, the financial allocation has invested too much in higher education, which makes the investment in compulsory education relatively insufficient. There are several problems in the phased distribution of educational public resources: First, in non-compulsory education, institutions of higher learning account for a large proportion, while the proportion of secondary specialized schools and technical schools has decreased. However, China is short of skilled technicians with high quality. Second, on the whole, the proportion of compulsory education in budget education and infrastructure expenditure is relatively low.

(3) The gap between urban and rural education is still outstanding. The gap between urban and rural education development is also mainly reflected in the compulsory education stage. Although great progress has been made in popularizing compulsory education in rural areas in recent years, the investment level and quality of compulsory education are not high because of the weak educational foundation in many rural areas. The gap between urban and rural areas tends to widen. There are also obvious differences in the quality of education investment. For example, the quality of urban teachers is obviously higher than that of rural teachers.

Gender differences still exist. Due to China's efforts to promote the development of compulsory education in recent years, the gender gap in primary education has gradually narrowed, but men have great advantages in higher education. Therefore, the key to narrowing the gender gap in education is to achieve gender balance in higher education.