The first goal: resolutely win the "two basics" battle in the western region.

At present, there are still 372 counties in the western region that have not popularized nine-year compulsory education, among which more than 60 counties have not popularized primary education and more than 260 counties have not basically eliminated illiteracy among young and middle-aged people. The task of solving this problem is very arduous. Completing this task is of great significance to promoting poverty alleviation and development, promoting national unity, maintaining border stability and realizing long-term stability of the country. The Ministry of Education will, in accordance with the requirements of the central authorities and on the basis of full investigation and study, formulate a plan to tackle the key problems of "two basics" and implement the tasks of "universal nine-year education" and "literacy" in different counties. Continue to organize the implementation of compulsory education projects in poverty-stricken areas, and make good use of funds for the development of the western region and national poverty alleviation funds. At the same time, we should also do a good job in tackling key problems in the central areas of counties without "nine-year compulsory education" and urge these areas to concentrate their efforts on realizing the "two basics" goal as soon as possible. Make unremitting efforts to achieve the goal of basically popularizing nine-year compulsory education and basically eliminating illiteracy among young and middle-aged people in the western region within five years, so that all children in the western region can go to school.

The second goal: consolidate the achievements of the "two basics" and achieve the goal of fully popularizing nine-year compulsory education and comprehensively improving the quality of compulsory education.

We should do a good job in consolidating and improving the achievements of the Ninth Five-Year Plan. We should focus on strengthening the construction of rural junior high schools and reducing the dropout rate of rural junior high schools, comprehensively promote quality education and improve the quality of compulsory education. We will continue to promote the adjustment of the layout structure of primary and secondary schools, basically eliminate the phenomenon of large class sizes, completely eliminate D-class dangerous houses, continuously improve the conditions for running schools, and further improve the efficiency of running schools. Fully implement the new curriculum of compulsory education and strengthen the construction of primary and secondary school teachers. Urban education administrative departments should continue to adhere to the principle of giving priority to the inflow governments and public primary and secondary schools, and conscientiously do a good job in compulsory education for children of floating population. Economically developed rural areas should achieve high-level and high-quality "universal nine-year compulsory education". It is necessary to strengthen the supervision and evaluation of tackling the "two basics" and consolidating and improving the work. Areas that have achieved the ninth five-year plan, especially the central and western regions, should consolidate their achievements and improve their quality. Economically developed rural areas should have a high level and high quality. These areas should also actively develop rural high school education and rural preschool education.

The third goal: further deepen the comprehensive reform of rural education and strive to achieve the goal of education serving agriculture, countryside and farmers.

Over the years, under the leadership of governments at all levels, China's rural education reform has flourished and accumulated many valuable experiences. The core of these experiences is to implement "three religions as a whole" and "combination of agriculture, science and education" to serve the countryside, agriculture and farmers. In the future work, we should unswervingly adhere to this direction, actively adapt to the new requirements of the profound changes taking place in rural areas of China, enhance the pertinence and practicality of running schools, and meet the diverse learning requirements of rural people. This is the direction and purpose of developing and reforming rural education. We must fully realize that rural schools, as public service institutions all over the countryside, must meet the diverse learning needs of farmers, strive to expand service coverage, establish active service awareness and continuously enhance service capabilities while cultivating students. It is necessary to build rural schools into an important base to help farmers get rid of poverty and get rich, find jobs and start businesses, become an important force in the construction of rural political civilization, material civilization and spiritual civilization, become an important link for the government to implement public management and provide public services, and make greater contributions in the process of building a well-off society in rural areas in an all-round way.

In order to successfully realize the three major goals of rural education, the Ministry of Education will take five important measures in the coming period.

One of the measures: further implement the requirements of the "county-oriented" rural compulsory education management system and improve the level of running and managing rural education.

The new management system of rural compulsory education based on county is the "fundamental policy" to promote the sustainable development of rural education. The focus of future work is to consolidate and improve the rural compulsory education management system of "the State Council leadership, local hierarchical management and county-oriented", and to establish a stable institutional environment and institutional guarantee for the long-term development of rural education. Implement the State Council's policies and measures on "ensuring wages, safety and operation", establish and improve the wage guarantee mechanism for rural primary and secondary school teachers, and establish a guarantee mechanism for the maintenance, renovation and construction of rural primary and secondary school buildings to ensure public funds for rural primary and secondary schools.

Establish a standardized rural education investment mechanism as soon as possible to ensure that the rural compulsory education investment is not lower than before the tax and fee reform and gradually increase. While ensuring investment in rural compulsory education, we should increase investment in vocational education, farmers' training and literacy education.

In the budget of rural compulsory education in counties, it is necessary to clarify the financial input responsibility of governments at all levels for rural compulsory education and further improve the transfer payment system. The insufficient part of county-level financial education expenditure shall be shared by the people's government at a higher level through transfer payment. The people's governments at the central, provincial and municipal levels should determine the wage burden of rural primary and secondary school teachers and the transfer payment of governments at all levels to difficult counties by county, establish the special funds and standardized transfer payment system for difficult counties by the governments at the corresponding levels, and bring the transfer payment funds to the counties at the beginning of the year into the county budget. The people's government at the county level shall, in accordance with the requirements, ensure that the transfer payment funds related to education at higher levels are all used for education.

The miscellaneous fees charged by the school shall be guaranteed to be used for all public expenditures, and shall not be used for personnel funds, infrastructure funds and other expenditures, and shall not be used to offset the educational appropriation in the financial budget in any form. In the key counties of national and provincial poverty alleviation and development work, all schools in the compulsory education stage implement the "one fee system". Establish and improve the publicity system of primary and secondary school fees and the inspection system of school fees, strengthen the management of fees, and resolutely stop arbitrary charges in primary and secondary schools.

In addition, it is necessary to speed up the renovation of dilapidated buildings and sanitary facilities in rural primary and secondary schools and the second phase of the "National Compulsory Education Project in Poverty-stricken Areas". Achieve the basic goal of "universal nine-year plan" in the western region within five years.

The second measure: take multiple measures to continuously enhance the ability of education to serve agriculture, countryside and farmers.

First, coordinate and integrate the existing rural educational resources to promote the formation of a learning society in rural areas. Rural primary and secondary schools, vocational and adult schools are all over the countryside, with a large number and complete system. We should give full play to this advantage and strive to build rural schools into an important base to help farmers get rid of poverty and become rich, an important force in the construction of rural political civilization, material civilization and spiritual civilization, an important link for the government to implement public management and provide public services, and serve the adjustment of rural industrial structure, the transfer of rural labor force, the development of rural urbanization and the all-round progress of rural society. It is necessary to coordinate rural education, integrate all kinds of existing educational resources in rural areas, promote the communication and coordinated development of basic education, vocational education and adult education, build a rural education and training network at county, township and village levels, and promote the formation of a rural learning society.

Second, vigorously develop employment-oriented rural vocational education and rural adult education focusing on farmers' training. It is necessary to focus on the construction of demonstration vocational schools in prefectures (cities) and counties, continue to run county-level vocational education and adult education centers, and give full play to the role of training institutions such as township vocational and adult schools. Actively expand the education and training functions of rural primary and secondary schools, implement "day school and night school" and "one teacher and two teachers", realize "one school with multiple functions" and "one teacher with multiple functions", and extensively carry out cultural, scientific and educational activities. Cooperate with the training of rural grass-roots managers and rural party member. It is necessary to actively promote rural vocational schools and adult schools to be guided by social needs and the market, optimize the structure, improve the quality, intensify the reform, and establish a flexible, diverse and open school-running model that meets the needs of farmers' lifelong learning.

Third, continue to deepen the reform of education and teaching in rural primary and secondary schools. Close contact with rural reality, highlight rural characteristics, and do a good job in compiling curriculum plans and textbooks for compulsory education and ordinary high schools. Continue to promote the "green certificate" education in rural middle schools, carry out employment and entrepreneurship education, improve the employability and vocational skills of the new type of labor force, and make rural students adapt to the needs of diversified development in the future. Combine education with productive labor, carry out various forms of work-study programs, cultivate students' concept of loving and respecting labor, exercise and improve students' practical ability, and help solve students' difficulties in study and life.

Fourth, give full play to the important role of institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions in promoting the combination of agriculture, science and education, and promote the coordinated development of urban and rural education. Universities and their affiliated scientific research institutions should continue to explore the "Taihang Mountain Road" under the new situation, take the initiative to train talents at all levels for agriculture and rural areas, train teachers for rural education, vigorously develop and actively promote advanced practical technologies and research results, constantly expand channels and methods for serving agriculture, and fully participate in rural economic construction and social development.

The third measure: strengthen the construction of rural teachers and further deepen the reform of personnel system in primary and secondary schools.

At present, to strengthen the construction of rural teachers, we should mainly do the following work: First, further intensify the reform and establish a dynamic personnel system in rural primary and secondary schools. The second is to promote the rational flow of teachers and guide and encourage people with corresponding teacher qualifications to teach in rural primary and secondary schools. Reward teachers who have long been teaching in rural areas in difficult and poor areas and have outstanding performance, and establish a service period system for primary and secondary school teachers in counties and townships to teach in rural areas; At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that the salaries of primary and secondary school teachers are paid in full and on time, and constantly improve the working and living conditions of teachers. Third, vigorously carry out continuing education and take the lead in building a lifelong learning system and learning organization among teachers. The Ministry of Education launched the "Teacher Education Network Alliance Plan", which will make full use of modern distance education means to carry out high-level teacher training on a large scale, so that teachers in different regions can share high-quality educational resources and greatly improve the quality of rural teachers. It is necessary to strengthen the annual assessment and employment period assessment of primary and secondary school teachers. The fourth is to strengthen the construction of teachers' professional ethics, so that teaching and educating people become the code of conduct for every teacher. Guide teachers to continue to carry forward the spirit of hard work and selfless dedication, educate students with good professional ethics, shape their own quality, strive to "serve the motherland and contribute to the people" and make new contributions to the development of rural education in China in the new period.

The fourth measure: actively promote the informatization construction of rural schools, seriously organize and implement the modern distance education project of rural primary and secondary schools, and strive to realize the leap-forward development of rural education.

The State Council's decision to implement modern distance education project in rural primary and secondary schools is not only an important decision related to the long-term development of rural education, but also a rare historical opportunity to promote rural education reform. We should carefully plan and organize the construction of modern distance education projects in rural areas according to the idea of "leaping, innovation, integration and pragmatism", actively explore the teaching and learning mode of modern distance education in rural areas, and promote rural education to achieve a new leap; Starting from the reality of rural education in China, we should persist in building teaching CDs and satellite teaching observation points, focus on rural areas in the central and western regions, combine the implementation of the project with curriculum reform in primary and secondary schools, teachers' continuing education and strengthening education and teaching management, and combine it with the "two basics" in the western region to promote the in-depth development of rural education reform; Give full play to the enthusiasm of all parties and achieve unified deployment and comprehensive coordination. Widely mobilize primary and secondary schools, universities and scientific research departments in eastern regions and cities, integrate existing educational information technology resources, realize the sharing of high-quality educational resources, and improve the quality and level of education.

The fifth measure: vigorously carry out the work of "two gangs" (helping the central and western regions and helping the disadvantaged groups) and strengthen the financial assistance for poor students in rural areas.

While continuing to implement the "two projects" of counterpart support education, we will establish a system of counterpart support for poverty-stricken counties in the eastern region and economically developed areas and in large and medium-sized cities in this province (autonomous regions and municipalities) to promote the all-round development of education in poverty-stricken areas. Carry out cooperation in running schools and enrolling students in secondary vocational schools from east to west and from cities to rural areas. Select a number of key secondary vocational schools in the eastern region, and adopt targeted enrollment and targeted training to train all kinds of urgently needed practical talents for the development of the western region; Encourage and support key vocational schools in eastern and urban areas to cooperate with western regions and rural areas in running schools, or recruit students in counterpart, carry out vocational education and training, and serve the transfer of rural labor force.

Further establish a system of subsidizing poor students to attend school, and guarantee the right of students with financial difficulties in rural families to receive compulsory education. We will continue to do a good job in accepting social donations and subsidizing poor students, organize and guide relevant social groups to carry out student assistance activities on a regular basis, encourage raising funds for rural education development through social donations, and mobilize the whole society to care for and support the education development in poverty-stricken areas and the schooling of poor students. Do a good job in helping students from poor families, and strive to make every student from poor families not lose the opportunity to receive compulsory education. Further expand the scope of free textbooks provided by rural students in poverty-stricken areas, and actively promote local governments to introduce relevant policies.