As a member of CPPCC, Ceng Yong, vice president of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, summed up the education reform in China in the past 40 years in three words: "Taking history as a mirror, making great contributions and distinctive features". He said: in the new era, people in education circles should make great contributions to the modernization of education and to the cultivation of new people in the era of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In the 40 years of reform and opening-up, China's education field has "made great achievements, made great contributions and had distinctive features".

Ceng Yong 1980 was admitted to Tsinghua University, and 1988 worked in Chengdu University of Electronic Technology in Sichuan. He has been engaged in economic and financial research for many years, and was selected into the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, and received special government subsidies from the State Council. It can be said that his own experience in studying and running a school is closely related to the development and changes of education in the past 40 years of reform and opening up.

When talking about China's achievements in the field of education since the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, Ceng Yong listed three key words: "historical achievements, great contributions and distinctive features".

"Achievement history" mainly refers to the very high education popularization rate in China. The data shows that the population coverage rate of nine-year compulsory education in China has reached100%; In 20 16, the gross enrollment rate of high school education reached 87.5%, and that of higher education reached 42.7%. According to the standards of developed countries, we have moved from elite education to mass education and entered mass education. Ceng Yong believes that our country has a population of nearly 654.38+0.4 billion, and it is "remarkable" to reach such a high popularization rate, which can be said to have made valuable contributions to all mankind. In the early days of reform and opening-up, the foundation of China's education field was very weak, and the reason why we have gone such a long way in a short time certainly depends on the attention of the state. "For example, objectively speaking, running a university is' burning money', but it seems to be' burning money', which is actually a long-term investment. If the state does not pay attention to it and the basic financial resources are not implemented, it is impossible to run a university well. "

In the 40 years of reform and opening up, China has trained a large number of high-quality talents, which is Ceng Yong's "great contribution". He said: "At present, in all walks of life, including so many large projects we have seen, almost all leading talents and backbone talents who have played an important leading role have been cultivated by our country in the past 40 years." He believes that the contribution of training and transporting talents to cutting-edge science and technology, national economy and other fields is enormous.

Ceng Yong also said that the distinctive feature of China University is * * * leadership, taking the socialist road and adhering to the socialist school-running direction. "Recently, China's universities, especially high-level universities, are going in the world-class direction, which means that China's higher education has entered the stage of keeping pace with developed countries. Our education quality standards are gradually recognized by developed countries, and even gradually show the characteristics of China and contribute to the China model. Therefore, I believe that China will make greater contributions to the world in terms of quality and mode in the future. "

Cultivate innovative leading talents and help China move to the center of the world stage.

Rooted in colleges and universities for decades, Ceng Yong has always believed that it is the consistent mission of educators to persist in teaching and educating people, to educate people and to train successors and builders of the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. In the new era, this mission can be specific to "cultivating new people of the times who are responsible for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." He said: "In the new era, we should make a contribution to the modernization of education."

China is moving towards the center of the world stage and needs innovative leading talents. Ceng Yong led the teachers and students of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China to achieve excellent results in the training of innovative talents and the evaluation of discipline competitions. He has his own unique views on how to train innovative leading talents to enter the industrial field, science and technology field and international organizations.

First of all, we should pay full attention to students' "soft power" and "hard power". Colleges of science and engineering should pay special attention to the construction of ideological and political courses, strengthen general education represented by literature, history and philosophy, combine the value shaping of ideological and political education with the value cultivation of humanistic education, and cultivate students' "soft power". To enhance students' "hard power", we should abandon the narrow division of disciplines and attach importance to cultivating interdisciplinary comprehensive talents. "The new things we see now are almost interdisciplinary. We should strengthen students' knowledge integration ability and system integration ability on an interdisciplinary basis and enhance their strength in these areas. " Ceng Yong explained this.

In addition, in the teaching mode, he suggested opening up more ways to cultivate top-notch innovative talents, paying attention to students' plasticity in learning, combining students' hobbies with planned training projects, and giving students equal opportunities to enjoy resources.

Poverty alleviation education in poverty-stricken areas of ethnic minorities goes first.

When talking about specific suggestions for further promoting education reform, Ceng Yong focused on the gap between the eastern and western education development. There are economic differences between the East and the West, but education, talents and economy influence each other to some extent. Backward education will form a negative cycle. Narrowing the gap between eastern and western education development can slow down or even break this cycle to some extent.

One of the proposals prepared by Ceng Yong for this meeting is to call for strengthening the pre-school education guarantee in poverty-stricken areas of ethnic minorities. "Resolutely win the battle against poverty", "continuously make new progress" and "run pre-school education well" are important arrangements made by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Preschool education, especially language education, is an important basis for students in poverty-stricken areas of ethnic minorities to receive continuing education.

Ceng Yong said that many poverty-stricken areas of ethnic minorities are poor mainly because of insufficient natural conditions. In the past two years, the tourism industry in these areas has developed very well, but it needs the help of education if it wants to upgrade. Solving the problem of preschool education in minority poverty-stricken areas can effectively promote regional economic development and block the intergenerational transmission of poverty. "Compared with economic poverty alleviation, education poverty alleviation has a long-term effect." To get rid of poverty in poverty-stricken areas of ethnic minorities, we must first pay more attention to education.