(1) guiding ideology. Hold high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, take Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents as guidance, thoroughly implement Scientific Outlook on Development, implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and strengthening the country through talents, give priority to the development of education, run a satisfactory education for the people and build a strong country with human resources.
We should fully implement the Party's educational policy, insist that education should serve the socialist modernization and the people, and combine it with productive labor and social practice to cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty.
Based on the basic national conditions of the primary stage of socialism, we should grasp the stage characteristics of education development, adhere to the rule of law, respect the laws of education, lay a solid foundation, optimize the structure, adjust the layout, enhance the connotation and promote the comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development of education.
(2) Working principle. Give priority to development, educate people, reform and innovate, promote fairness and improve quality.
Put education in a strategic position of giving priority to development. Giving priority to the development of education is an important policy put forward by the party and the state and adhered to for a long time. Party committees and governments at all levels should give priority to the development of education as a basic requirement for the implementation of Scientific Outlook on Development, and earnestly give priority to the development of education in economic and social development planning, give priority to ensuring investment in education with financial funds, and give priority to meeting the needs of education and human resources development with public resources. Fully mobilize all social forces to care for and support education, improve the system and policies for social forces to invest in education, and continuously increase the investment of social resources in education.
Take educating people as the basic requirement of education. Human resources are the first resource for China's economic and social development, and education is the main way to develop human resources. Take students as the main body, teachers as the leading factor, give full play to students' initiative, and take promoting students' growth and success as the starting point and foothold of all school work; Caring for every student and promoting every student's active and lively development; Respect the law of education and the law of students' physical and mental development, provide suitable education for each student, and cultivate hundreds of millions of high-quality workers, tens of millions of specialized talents and a large number of top-notch innovative talents.
Take reform and innovation as a powerful driving force for the development of education. The development of education depends on reform. We should focus on the reform of institutional mechanisms, encourage local governments and schools to explore and experiment boldly, and accelerate the pace of reform in important areas and key links. Innovate the talent training system, school-running system and education management system, reform the quality evaluation and examination enrollment system, reform the teaching content, methods and means, build a modern school system, and build a modern education system in Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Accelerate the resolution of the contradiction between the demand for high-quality diversified talents in economic and social development and the lack of education and training capabilities, the contradiction between the people's expectations for quality education and the relative shortage of resources, and the contradiction between enhancing the vitality of education and the constraints of institutional mechanisms, thus providing a strong impetus for the sustained and healthy development of education.
Take promoting fairness as the basic education policy of the country. Educational equity is an important foundation of social equity. The basic requirement of educational equity is to protect citizens' right to education according to law, and the key is equal opportunity. The key point is to promote the balanced development of compulsory education and support the disadvantaged groups. The fundamental measure is to rationally allocate educational resources, tilt towards rural areas, remote and poor areas and ethnic minority areas, and accelerate the narrowing of the educational gap. The main responsibility of educational equity lies with the government, and the whole society should jointly promote educational equity.
Taking improving quality as the core task of educational reform and development. Establish a scientific concept of education quality, and take promoting people's all-round development and adapting to social needs as the fundamental standard to measure education quality. Establish an educational development concept with improving quality as the core, pay attention to the development of educational connotation, and encourage schools to run their own characteristics, run their own level, produce famous teachers and educate talents. Establish a management system and working mechanism oriented to improving the quality of education, and focus on strengthening teaching links and improving the quality of education in the allocation of educational resources and school work. Formulate national standards for education quality and establish an education quality guarantee system. Strengthen the construction of teachers and improve the overall quality of teachers.