For a long time, teachers and educators all over the country have conscientiously implemented the Party's education policy, taught and educated people, worked diligently, remained unknown and made selfless contributions, made great efforts for the development of China's education, trained a large number of talents for China's socialist construction, and made outstanding contributions to the Party and the people. Here, on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks and sincere greetings to the teachers and educators all over the country, and to all the cadres and people from all walks of life who care about and support China's education!
The 60-year education in New China is the 60-year improvement of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's education system. In this historical process, we have deepened our understanding of the development law of socialist education in China and reached a very important conclusion. First of all, education is the most fundamental cause of national and ethnic development. We must uphold the Party's leadership over education, clarify the government's responsibility for developing and managing education, implement the strategic position of giving priority to education, realize the coordinated development of education and economy and society, and give full play to the basic, leading and overall position and role of education in the cause of the party and the state. Second, the fundamental purpose of education is to cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty. We must fully implement the party's educational policy and take promoting the healthy growth of students as the starting point and the end result of all school work. Third, the vitality of education development lies in reform and opening up. We must always follow the requirements of facing modernization, facing the world and facing the future, base ourselves on the basic national conditions of the primary stage of socialism, adhere to the combination of inheritance and innovation, and constantly deepen the reform of education system and education and teaching. Fourth, education is an important way to improve people's livelihood and promote social harmony. Adhere to people-oriented, promote education equity, and protect citizens' right to education according to law. Fifth, the key to the development of education lies in teachers. We should closely rely on teachers and educators, follow the laws of education, constantly improve teachers' political quality and professional quality, and carry forward the social atmosphere of respecting teachers and attaching importance to teaching. These important conclusions are precious and have been embodied in the outline of education planning. We should firmly grasp and constantly enrich the development in promoting educational reform and development.
At present, China's socialist modernization has entered a new stage of development. Our goal is to build a well-off society in an all-round way by 2020, and then basically realize modernization by the middle of this century, and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Giving priority to the development of education and improving the level of educational modernization is of decisive significance for realizing the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and building a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious socialist modern country.
With the rapid development of science and technology, knowledge has increasingly become a decisive factor to improve comprehensive national strength and international competitiveness, and human resources have increasingly become a strategic resource to promote economic and social development. The importance of science and technology, education and talent competition in the competition of comprehensive national strength is increasingly prominent. The competition of comprehensive national strength in today's world is, in the final analysis, the competition of national quality. Education plays a fundamental role in improving people's ideological and moral quality, scientific and cultural quality, developing science and technology and cultivating talents. We should seize the opportunity, meet the challenge, give priority to the development of education, improve the level of educational modernization and give full play to the important role of education. By vigorously developing education, we will strive to train hundreds of millions of high-quality workers, tens of millions of specialized talents and a large number of top-notch innovative talents, accelerate the transformation of economic development mode, adhere to the road of new industrialization with China characteristics, enhance China's development stamina and international competitiveness, and constantly promote scientific development. By vigorously developing education, we will carry forward the socialist core value system in the whole society, especially among young people, further form common ideals, beliefs and moral norms, cultivate civilized customs, enhance national cohesion, lay a solid ideological and moral foundation for the United struggle of the whole party and the people of all nationalities, and constantly promote social harmony. Vigorously develop education, comprehensively strengthen and improve moral education, intellectual education, physical education and aesthetic education, adhere to the unity of cultural knowledge learning and ideological and moral cultivation, theoretical study and social practice, all-round development and personality development, and constantly promote people's all-round development.
We must be soberly aware that although China's education has made great achievements, it is still not fully adapted to the requirements of the country's economic and social development and people's good education. The main problems are: the problem of learning has been basically solved, but the problem of learning in school is still outstanding, and the growing diversified educational needs of the people cannot be well met; The concept of education is relatively backward, the content and methods are outdated, and the schoolwork burden of primary and secondary school students is too heavy, so it is difficult to promote quality education; Students' ability to adapt to society, employment and entrepreneurship is not strong, and innovative, practical and compound talents are in short supply; The educational system and mechanism are not perfect, the vitality of running a school is insufficient, the educational structure and layout are not reasonable, and the development of education in urban and rural areas and regions is unbalanced; Education investment is insufficient, and the strategic position of giving priority to education development has not been fully implemented. To promote the development of educational science, we must focus on solving these problems.
Education is the national economy and people's livelihood; Education is today and tomorrow. Vigorously developing education is the only way to build a well-off society in an all-round way, accelerate socialist modernization and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The whole party and the whole country should take active actions, adhere to the principle of educating people, take reform and innovation as the driving force, take promoting fairness and improving quality as the core, promote the development of educational science at a new historical starting point, accelerate the progress from a big country in education to a strong country in human resources, and make greater contributions to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the progress of human civilization.