State Council Resolutions on Further Strengthening Rural Education

Overview & Synopsis

Several resolutions on strengthening work in rural education have been made in order to accelerate development of rural education in China, deepen reform of rural education, guarantee a well-off society, and harmonize rural and urban development. This article presents a detailed plan of actions for each resolution. The resolutions are enumerated as follows: (1) Emphasizing the important place of rural education in comprehensive construction of a comfortably well-off society and making rural education the most important of all education work; (2) Speeding up the progress of the Two Basics and improving the results and quality of universal compulsory education; (3) Upholding service toward "Three Agricultures," greatly empowering the development of vocational education and adult education, and deepening reform of rural education; (4) Having a workable "with country as priority" management system to meet the needs of rural compulsory education, increasing investment, and improving funding-protection mechanisms; (5) Establishing and safeguarding a system to assist students from families in economic difficulties and guaranteeing rural children of school age their right to compulsory education; (6) Accelerating the implementation of reform of the personnel management system in rural primary and secondary schools and forcefully raising the quality of teachers; (7) Implementing modern distance education in rural primary and secondary schools, promoting quality education resources that can be shared, and raising the quality and the benefits of rural education; and (8) Conscientiously strengthening leadership and mobilizing all of society's concern and support for rural education undertakings. [Translated by Jennifer Eagleton.]