2. Educational achievements: Great progress has been made in educational development, which is an important indicator to measure a country's development level and development potential. Over the past 30 years of reform and opening up, China's education development has made great progress. 1978, the number of college graduates in China was only165,000, accounting for 0.0 17 1% of the total population of 962.59 million at that time. In 2006, the number of college graduates in China reached 3.775 million, accounting for 0.287 1% of China's total population14480, which increased by 16.7 times in the 30 years in 2008.
3. Cultural achievements: Since the reform and opening up, especially since the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our Party has always placed cultural construction in an important strategic position in the overall work of the Party and the state, adhered to both material and spiritual civilization, and combined the rule of law with the rule of virtue to promote the simultaneous development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries. Cultural construction has continuously made new achievements and embarked on a road of cultural development in Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
4. Scientific and technological achievements: Over the past 30 years, hundreds of thousands of major scientific and technological achievements have been made, including more than 1 10,000 national awards, and some areas have reached or approached the world advanced level. New breakthroughs have been made in high-energy physics, computer technology, launch vehicle technology and satellite communication. Representative works include Shenzhou series spacecraft, Beidou positioning system, Chang 'e spacecraft, Xiaolong, mobile phone communication and so on. The most prominent thing is the rapid development of the Internet, which has penetrated into everyone's life.
5. Road and railway construction: by 20 15, the national expressway with a length of over 86,000 kilometers. In 20 15, the national railway fixed assets investment was 823.8 billion yuan, and the new line was put into operation 953 1 km, both of which were the best in history. The goal of "two over 8000" (the investment in railway fixed assets exceeds 800 billion yuan and the new line put into production exceeds 8000 kilometers) has been fully realized. By the end of 20 15, the national railway operating mileage exceeded120,000 km, ranking second in the world, among which the high-speed rail mileage reached190,000 km, ranking first in the world.