1 At the end of the month, I received a phone call from a reporter in my sleep in the United States: "Your headmaster took over as Minister of Education. What's your comment on this? " I asked, "Who's the principal? The reporter said: "President Jiang!" I reconfirmed: "You are mistaken! The reporter is very sure, but I still doubt it: "Are you the president of the National Science Council? This is the first time that Li Cheng, vice president of Central University, learned that President Jiang Weining was appointed Minister of Education, and his incredible reaction.
What I didn't expect was not just Jiang Weining's close colleague. More than a month ago, Jiang Weining "broken glasses" became the Minister of Education, which kept the unfamiliar media and education circles busy. On the afternoon when the National Teachers' Association released the personnel news, it mobilized all office colleagues to search and sort out all the information about "Jiang Weining" on the Internet. A few days later, Chairman Liu put Jiang Weining's resume in his pocket in case he answered a reporter's question about the new minister.
Jiang Weining is 55 years old, with a gentle and modest appearance and a smooth road to study. Graduated from Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, received a doctorate in civil engineering from Stanford University at the age of 3/kloc-0, and returned to Central University as an associate professor in the same year. Academic expertise is risk management and fuzzy mathematics. Before the end of 1 this year, I searched his relevant background on the internet, but I couldn't see any comments or analysis on relevant education policies.
Jiang Weining is the 22nd Minister of Education after taking office. Previously, many ministers were university professors with non-educational background, such as Du Fu and Zheng Ruicheng. Jiang Weining, who also has little contact with the national education policy, faces more urgent challenges than his predecessors. Since it is less than 100 days before taking office on February 6th, the Ministry of Education must complete the coordination with all counties and cities before the end of April this year, and announce the "super-ranking conditions for entrance without examination" and "special enrollment methods and proportions" that parents in the country are most concerned about and most controversial as scheduled. This is the key to the smooth progress of the twelve-year state religion.