Looking back over the past 60 years, ethnic minority areas have experienced great historical changes from backwardness to progress, from poverty to prosperity, and from closure to opening up. China ethnic areas have never been so prosperous, the cause of national unity and progress has never been so vigorous, and the Chinese nation has never been so proud and proud of the East. 60 years of brilliant achievements and 60 years of experience are precious. We firmly believe that as long as we March courageously along the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, no difficulties and obstacles, no external forces can stop the firm pace of the closely United sons and daughters of all ethnic groups in China to create a happy life, and the prospect of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will become more and more brilliant.

Since the founding of New China 60 years ago, China's educational science and technology has achieved leap-forward development.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 25th (Reporter Cui Jing, Wu Jing) Officials from the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the China Academy of Social Sciences said on the 25th that since the founding of New China 60 years ago, China's educational science and technology undertakings have achieved great development by leaps and bounds, and great achievements have attracted worldwide attention.

Sun, director of the Policy and Regulation Department of the Ministry of Education, said that since the founding of New China 60 years ago, especially since the reform and opening up, the Party and the state have attached great importance to education and insisted on giving priority to its development. Education in China has gone through a magnificent development process and achieved "two leaps". First, fully popularize nine-year compulsory education and fully realize free compulsory education in urban and rural areas. Second, higher education has entered the stage of popular development; China's vocational education has accelerated its development in reform and innovation, and made an important breakthrough in the adjustment of educational macro-structure; China has made great progress in realizing educational equity by implementing free compulsory education in urban and rural areas and establishing and improving the financial assistance system for students with financial difficulties.

Sun introduced that China is the country with the largest education scale in the world, and its modern education system has been basically established. In 2008, there were 260 million students of all levels and types in China, including nearly 65,438+600 million students who received nine-year compulsory education. 190,000 junior high school graduates, more than 85% went to high school education schools; Of the 8.3 million ordinary high school graduates, more than 73% entered institutions of higher learning. In addition, there are 1 10,000 graduate students and 240,000 doctoral students. The establishment and continuous improvement of this system has guaranteed the people's opportunity to receive education, laid a solid foundation for building a harmonious socialist society, and provided a strong guarantee for talents and human resources for building a well-off society in an all-round way and socialist modernization.

Wang Ruijun, director of the Comprehensive Planning Division of the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said that since the founding of New China 60 years ago, the Party and the state have always placed science and technology in the strategic position of national development. From the great call of "marching into science" in the early days of the founding of New China to the scientific assertion that "science and technology are the primary productive forces" after the reform and opening up, the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and the goal of building an innovative country have been established. China's scientific and technological undertakings have continuously achieved new leaps and bounds, and a road of scientific and technological development with China characteristics has been explored and practiced. Over the past 60 years, China has established a relatively complete modern science and technology system, and has become a big country in science and technology. Its scientific and technological strength has been significantly enhanced, and its scientific and technological development has entered an important leap. Philosophy and social sciences in China have formed scientific research and teaching systems such as Academy of Social Sciences, institutions of higher learning, party and government departments, school of administration of Party schools, and military academies. There are nearly 400,000 people engaged in scientific research and teaching activities in philosophy and social sciences, including more than 30,000 full-time researchers.

It is reported that the "60 Years of Brilliant Online Series Talk" was jointly organized by the Education Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, People.com, Xinhuanet, CCTV, Guangming.com and Zhongqing.com, with the aim of inviting the heads of relevant departments to explain the brilliant achievements made by People's Republic of China (PRC) in economy, society, science and technology and education since its 60th anniversary. The activity received great attention from netizens, with the highest number of simultaneous online users exceeding 654.38+0.2 million, and more than 370 questions and messages from netizens!