CCTV News: Recently, the Ministry of Education and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "Notice on Organizing and Implementing the Teacher Education Capacity Improvement Project" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), making arrangements for improving the teacher education system with Chinese characteristics and further improving the teacher education ability during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period to the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

Implementing the teacher education capacity improvement project is an important measure to implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on improving the teacher education system with Chinese characteristics, promote the high-quality development of teacher education, and cultivate high-level teachers. The "Notice" is based on the new requirements for building a strong country in education, focusing on supporting the construction of a number of high-level teacher education institutions, creating a core engine and strategic pillar goal that supports and leads the high-quality development of the teacher education system with Chinese characteristics, highlighting key points, strengthening the distribution of points, highlighting characteristics, and keeping good nodes. Focusing on cultivating future teachers' scientific and practical capabilities, combining hard investment with soft construction, comprehensively improving teacher education capabilities, focusing on building teachers' education colleges, disciplines and courses with Chinese characteristics and first-class level, and building an independent teacher education discipline system.

The "Notice" puts forward requirements for construction units from five aspects: building a new model for teacher talent training, building a new platform for teacher education research, consolidating new support for teacher education reform, building a new highland for leading and serving society, and creating a new situation of international education exchanges. Coordinate the use of existing funding channels such as central budget investment, ultra-long-term special treasury bonds, and local government special bonds to strengthen financial support for construction units related infrastructure construction, and provide policy support in the construction of "Double First-Class" construction, talent engineering projects, scientific research platforms, etc.

The Ministry of Education and the National Development and Reform Commission plan the construction layout of teacher education colleges according to the needs of teacher training, clarify the basic conditions of the construction unit, emphasize local guidance and support for the construction unit, and according to the specific implementation plan of the colleges and universities, and in accordance with the idea of ​​maturing a batch and promoting a batch, we will support the construction of a batch of high-level teacher education colleges in batches.