Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 6th Title: Strengthen the supporting role of education in science and technology and talents

Xinhua News Agency commentator

"Further form a vivid situation where talents emerge in large numbers, talents make full use of their talents, and talents make full use of them." On the 6th, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech when visiting members of the Democratic League, Democratic Progressive Party and Education who attended the Third Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and attended the joint meeting, emphasizing that we must deeply grasp the demand for education, science and technology and talents of Chinese modernization, strengthen the supporting role of education in science and technology and talents, and point out the direction for us to build a strong country in education, science and technology and talents of our country in talent and have provided important guidance.

Education is the foundation of building a strong country and national rejuvenation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has insisted on taking education as a major national strategy and a major party plan, fully implemented the Party’s education policy, made major decisions to implement the strategy of building a country with science and education and accelerate the modernization of education, and established the goal of building a strong education country by 2035, strengthen the Party’s overall leadership over education work, continuously promote the reform of the education system and mechanism, promote the education cause in the new era to achieve historic achievements and pattern changes, and take solid steps to build a strong education country. Through unremitting efforts, my country has built the world's largest and high-quality education system. The popularity of preschool education and compulsory education in my country has reached the average level of high-income countries. Higher education has entered the world-recognized stage of popularization, and a number of universities and a large number of disciplines have entered the world's advanced level.

At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation are being deepened. The competition in today's world is ultimately a competition for talent and education. Talent is the foundation of innovation, and innovation-driven is essentially talent-driven. Whoever has first-class innovative talents and first-class scientists will have an advantage in scientific and technological innovation. On the new journey, we must deeply understand that building a strong education country, a strong science and technology country, and a strong talent country has internal consistency and mutual support, and deeply understand that building a strong education country is the pioneering task, solid foundation and strategic support for achieving the comprehensive promotion of the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization, promote education development, scientific and technological innovation, and talent training in an integrated manner, form a doubling effect to promote high-quality development, and make solid progress towards the established goals.

What kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate, and for whom to cultivate are the fundamental issues of education. To build a strong country in education, science and technology, and talents, we must adhere to the correct direction of running schools and cultivate socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor. We must focus on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, focus on using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to forge the soul and educate people, and integrate moral education into the entire process of intellectual education, sports, aesthetic education, and labor education. We must adhere to the simultaneous promotion of ideological and political course construction with the Party’s innovative theories, and the ideological and political courses and courses are in the same direction, effectively integrate the "small classroom" of ideological and political education with the "big classroom" of society, and do moral education more effectively and effectively.

Reform is the fundamental driving force for the development of education. The fundamental reason to build a high-quality education system and provide education that satisfies the people is to deepen the comprehensive reform of education. Through reform, we will further improve the system and mechanism, establish a scientific education evaluation system, improve the school management system, implement the school's autonomy in running schools, and continuously improve the level of rule of education and management according to law. We must focus on modernization needs, adapt to changes in the population structure, coordinate basic education, higher education, and vocational education, coordinate government investment and social investment, establish and improve a more reasonable and efficient educational resource allocation mechanism, so that the results of education reform and development benefit all people more and more equitably.

Technology and technology innovation relies on talents, and talent cultivation relies on education. To achieve a benign interaction between independent innovation in science and technology and independent cultivation of talents, education should further play a leading and basic supporting role. We must implement a breakthrough plan for basic disciplines and interdisciplinary disciplines, build a joint innovation platform between schools, enterprises and local governments, improve the efficiency of transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and enable more scientific and technological achievements to be transformed into real productivity as soon as possible. We must improve the adaptation mechanism between talent training and economic and social development needs, adhere to overall adaptation, dynamic balance, and benign interaction, and improve the quality and efficiency of independent talent training. We must implement the national education digital strategy, build a learning society, promote the emergence of talents of all types and levels, and support high-quality development with high-quality talents.

All wisdom and plan things will be clear, and all efforts will be accomplished. Building a strong country in education, science and technology, and talents is the common responsibility of the whole Party and society. Let us unify our thoughts and actions with the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, widely unite people, build consensus, gather wisdom and strength, jointly promote the high-quality development of education and science and technology talents, actively participate in the practice of integrated reform and development of the system and mechanism of education and science and technology talents, continuously improve the overall efficiency of the national innovation system, lay a solid foundation for promoting high-quality development and promoting Chinese-style modernization, and inject inexhaustible driving force.