Education blueprint lays ground for modernization

The new educational blueprint, jointly issued by the central authorities recently promises to build China into a leading country in education by 2035.

In 2022, a timeline was established to achieve this aspiration by 2035. The new educational blueprint offers a detailed, realistic guidance on how the goal will be achieved. It outlines the necessary steps for both basic and higher education, such as "strengthen and optimize basic education to consolidate the foundational strategy for comprehensively enhancing national quality and enhance the comprehensive strength of higher education to create a strategically leading force".

China will also improve the system of imparting lessons in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor skills for primary and secondary schools, and accelerate the development of advanced research institutions for higher education.

Other measures include building a high-quality professional teaching team, thus laying a solid foundation for a powerful educated nation and building a learning society with the help of digital education technologies. There is also a plan to deepen comprehensive educational reform to improve the strategy of opening up the education sector in order to build an educational center with global influence. This is the right move as education cannot be improved behind closed doors; global interaction and academic exchanges among nations are crucial.

To make this goal more achievable, the blueprint encourages reputable foreign universities in science and engineering to offer programs in China.

Realizing the education dream will help in cultivating and strengthening the country's strategic science and technology capabilities, thus providing strong support for high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology.