One week by the Ministry of Education (11.08-11.14)

November 08

1) The release of "Vision and Refraction Inspection Operation Demonstration Film"

In order to guide local schools to standardize the submission of vision monitoring data every semester, and further implement the requirements of the Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Education on Doing a Good Job in Submitting Main Information of Regular Vision Monitoring for Primary and Secondary School Students, recently, the Ministry of Education commissioned Wenzhou Medical University and the Eye Optometry Hospital affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University to develop and publish the Demonstration Film of Vision and Refraction Examination.

2) The first batch of China economics textbooks were compiled and published by selected schools and teams.

The Office of the National Textbook Committee of the Ministry of Education issued a notice announcing the first batch of selected schools and teams for compiling China economics textbooks. A total of 13 schools and 25 teams, including China Renmin University, were selected. The names of the textbooks include 9 items, including Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s political economy, China’s macroeconomics and People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s economic history (1949-1978).

November 09

3) The National Conference on Education Finance was held.

On November 9th, the National Conference on Education Finance was held. The meeting pointed out that the overall goal of educational finance during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period is to give full play to the role of educational finance in supporting, assisting and guiding, and provide a strong guarantee for building a high-quality education system and accelerating educational modernization.

4) The 14th Five-Year Scientific Research Work Conference of the State Language Committee was held.

On November 9th, the 14th Five-Year Scientific Research Work Conference of the State Language Committee was held. The meeting stressed that it is necessary to pay close attention to emerging cross-fields, promote the development of disciplines, and strengthen the cultivation of innovative talents; It is necessary to improve the linguistic discourse system with China characteristics and enhance the international influence of scientific research.

5) The National Textbook Committee issued the Administrative Measures for the Use of Special Signs of the First National Textbook Construction Award.

Recently, the Office of the National Textbook Committee issued the "Administrative Measures for the Use of Special Signs for the First National Textbook Construction Award", requiring any unit or individual not to expand or expand the scope of use of special signs in disguise, and not to steal or counterfeit special signs.

November 10th.

6)1011 new liberal arts research and reform practice projects were announced.

Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the first batch of 1011 new liberal arts research and reform practice projects, and proposed that mid-term inspections and final acceptance will be organized in due course, and the projects that have not been promoted effectively will be withdrawn, and the universities that have been withdrawn will not be allowed to participate in the next batch of project establishment.

7) Eight departments jointly deploy off-campus training advertising management and control.

Recently, the General Administration of Market Supervision, together with Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, the Central Network Information Office, the Ministry of Education and other eight departments, issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Control of Off-campus Training Advertisements, requiring relevant local departments to carry out special actions and concentrate their time and efforts on a comprehensive investigation and clean-up of off-campus training advertisements, regardless of disciplines and non-disciplines.

8) Huai Jinpeng, Special Representative of the Chairman of the Supreme Leader, attended the UNESCO 2021 High-level Conference on Global Education and delivered a speech.

On November 10th, Huai Jinpeng, Special Representative of the Supreme Leader and Minister of Education, attended the UNESCO 2021 High-level Conference on Global Education by video and delivered a speech. Huai Jinpeng emphasized that at present, China is committed to building a high-quality education system, so that all China people can enjoy a better and fairer education. China is willing to join hands with the international community to implement the 2030 education agenda and work hard to build a community of human destiny and a better tomorrow.

9) A promotion meeting was held to summarize and exchange the special education of teachers’ morality and implement the key work of building teachers’ morality and style.

On November 10th, the Ministry of Education held a promotion meeting on the summary and exchange of special education on teachers’ morality and the implementation of key tasks in the construction of teachers’ morality and style, and further deployed and promoted the construction of teachers’ ideological and political and teachers’ morality and style in combination with the implementation of the central inspection and rectification tasks. The meeting pointed out that the Ministry of Education has designated 2021 as the "year of strengthening ideological and political work for college teachers", and constantly strengthened the construction of teachers’ ideological and political work and teachers’ morality and style.

10) Reply to Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference’s proposal: Efforts will be made to solve the problems of forced purchase in disguise and high price of school uniforms for primary and secondary school students.

Recently, official website, the Ministry of Education, published the Letter of Reply to Proposal No.4561 (Education No.508) of the Fourth Session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and gave a reply to the Proposal on Actively Promoting the Marketization of School Uniforms under Effective Supervision. In its reply, the Ministry of Education stated that the next step will be to further strengthen the management of school uniforms for primary and secondary school students together with relevant departments: standardize the selection and procurement of school uniforms for primary and secondary school students, and focus on solving the problems of compulsory purchase in disguise, high price, too many styles and categories, frequent changes and irregular procurement procedures.

11) To further strengthen the sexual and reproductive health education for adolescents in schools and revise the Guiding Outline of Health Education for Primary and Secondary Schools.

Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the reply of the CPPCC’s Proposal on Strengthening Adolescent Sexual Health Education in China. In its reply, the Ministry of Education said that sexual health education is an important part of school health education, and strengthening sexual and reproductive health education is of great significance to improving students’ health literacy and promoting their all-round development. In the next step, the Ministry of Education will further strengthen sexual and reproductive health education for adolescents in schools, revise the Guiding Outline of Health Education for Primary and Secondary Schools, and deepen the supply-side reform of sexual health education in schools.

12) Depression screening should be included in students’ physical examination.

Recently, the Ministry of Education responded to the proposal No.3839 (Education No.344) of the Fourth Session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. In response to the proposal of "further implementing the prevention and treatment measures for adolescent depression", the Ministry of Education has made it clear that depression screening should be included in the content of students’ health examination, students’ mental health files should be established, students’ mental health status should be evaluated, and students with abnormal evaluation results should be given special attention.

13) Strengthen the integration of "Chinese+vocational skills" and create a new pattern of international Chinese education.

Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the reply of the CPPCC’s Proposal on Responding to Challenges and Risks Faced by International Chinese Education. In its reply, the Ministry of Education said that the development of international Chinese education faces both rare historical opportunities and many challenges and difficulties. In the next step, the Ministry of Education and relevant institutions, enterprises and social organizations will focus on improving the standard system, school-running system and communication system, and strive to create a new development pattern of international Chinese education by cultivating new models and formats and enhancing international communication capabilities.

14) support colleges and universities to set up family education related majors.

Recently, the Ministry of Education announced its reply to the proposal No.4716 (Education No.536) of the Fourth Session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. In response to the proposal of "implementing the specialization of family education", the Ministry of Education replied that it supports colleges and universities to set up family education-related majors, and supports qualified colleges and universities to actively set up related undergraduate majors such as home economics.

15) Starting from the fall semester of 2022, all localities will fully implement school preparation and school adaptation education.

Recently, the Ministry of Education announced its reply to the recommendation No.8297 of the Fourth Session of the 13th National People’s Congress. In response to the suggestion of "strengthening the scientific connection between young children", the Ministry of Education replied that starting from the autumn semester of 2022, all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) will fully implement school preparation and school adaptation education.

16) opinions will be issued to fundamentally solve the problem of "school choice fever"

Recently, the Ministry of Education responded to the proposal No.9636 of the Fourth Session of the 13th National People’s Congress, "Suggestions on improving the speculation of school districts and ensuring the sharing of educational resources", saying that the appearance of "school districts" to some extent reflected the imbalance in the allocation of high-quality educational resources and the differences in the quality of running schools between schools. The Ministry of Education attaches great importance to this issue, promoting balanced development, focusing on narrowing the gap between schools, promoting multi-school scribing, managing school selection and standardizing enrollment order, and has achieved remarkable results.

17) Gradually establish the "vocational college entrance examination" system, so that secondary vocational school graduates can enjoy more diverse educational choices and smoother channels for academic promotion.

Recently, the Ministry of Education, in response to the recommendation No.2629 of the Fourth Session of the 13th National People’s Congress, "Suggestions on lowering the threshold for secondary vocational school students to enter colleges and universities for full-time education", said that it would further strengthen the basic role of secondary vocational education, standardize the through-training of technical and technical talents with long academic system, strictly implement the entrance requirements for top-skilled talents without examination, and gradually establish a "vocational college entrance examination" system, so that secondary vocational school graduates can enjoy more educational choices and smoother academic promotion channels.

November 11th.

18) Education system "Eighth Five-Year Plan" is issued.

Recently, the Ministry of Education has formulated and issued the Eighth Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for the promotion and education of the rule of law in the national education system, which has comprehensively deployed the publicity and education of the rule of law in the education system during the 14 th Five-Year Plan period. The "Planning" proposes to adhere to the guidance of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era, comprehensively implement the party’s education policy, and carry out in-depth publicity and education on the rule of law in the education system; Adhere to the overall leadership of the party, adhere to people-oriented, adhere to service orientation, and adhere to the organic integration of law popularization and governance according to law; By 2025, the pertinence and effectiveness of law popularization will be significantly enhanced, and the quality and level of publicity and education on the rule of law in the education system will reach a new level.

19) The Third Belt and Road Education Dialogue was held.

On November 11th, the third Belt and Road Education Dialogue was held in Beijing. Tian Xuejun, member of the Party Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education, delivered a speech by video. Tian Xuejun emphasized that China will promote the high-quality development of the "One Belt, One Road" education initiative, build a more comprehensive educational cooperation network, achieve a higher level of educational interconnection, and implement more resilient international exchanges and cooperation in education.

November 12th.

20) The Key Guide to Constitutional Law Teaching in Colleges and Universities was issued.

In order to further standardize the teaching of constitutional law in colleges and universities, and help teachers to thoroughly understand the key points of constitutional law teaching and make good use of the key teaching material "Constitutional Law", the General Office of the Ministry of Education recently issued the "Key Guide to Constitutional Law Teaching in Ordinary Colleges and Universities". The "Guide" was jointly developed by the director of the Teaching Steering Committee of Law Major in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), and Xu Xianming, vice chairman of the Supervision and Judicial Committee of the National People’s Congress.

21) The application for the second batch of national key research bases for textbook construction was carried out.

The General Office of the Ministry of Education recently issued the "Notice on Organizing the Declaration of the Second Batch of Key Research Bases for the Construction of National Textbooks", informing relevant units to organize the declaration of the second batch of key research bases for the construction of national textbooks. The second batch of 20 bases are planned to be built, and the types of bases are divided into disciplines and comprehensive categories. Among them, there are 16 disciplines and 4 comprehensive categories, and all the research objects of the base include corresponding foreign textbooks and new forms of textbooks.

22) The evaluation opinions of degree authorization points in 2021 were announced.

On November 12th, the State Council Academic Degrees Committee issued the opinions on the special qualification assessment of degree authorization points in 2021. Among them, a total of two degree-granting units offered to give up their authorization, namely Tianjin Medical University and Army Engineering University, and the cancelled professional degree authorization points were all in the category of applied statistics. The above-mentioned degree authorization points will revoke the degree authorization from the date of issuance, and may not reapply within 5 years. After the enrollment work is completed in 2022, they may not enroll students, and the graduate students will be trained and awarded degrees according to the original channels.

23) The result of dynamic adjustment of degree points in 2020 was officially released.

On November 12th, official website, the Ministry of Education, issued the Notice of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee on dynamically adjusting the list of degree authorization points cancelled and added in 2020. A total of 54 universities in 23 provinces have cancelled 86 degree programs, including a large number of doctoral degree programs. In addition, 73 universities have added 102 degree places.

24) In 2020, the degree authorization points revoked and added by the independent examination unit of degree authorization were announced.

On November 12th, official website, the Ministry of Education, issued the "Notice of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee on Issuing the List of Degree Authorization Points Cancelled and Added by the Independent Auditing Unit of Degree Authorization in 2020". A total of 54 degree programs have been added and 8 degree programs have been cancelled by independent audit institutions. 54 new degree programs are from 27 universities.

25) The list of authorized points for the first-level discipline degree of integrated circuit science and engineering added in 2020 was announced.

On November 12th, official website, the Ministry of Education, issued the Notice of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee on Issuing the List of Degree Authorized Points for Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering in 2020. The document was written on October 26th. This time, a total of 18 universities were selected for the list of authorized points for doctoral degrees in the first-level discipline of "Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering", and one university was selected for the list of authorized points for master’s degrees in the first-level discipline of "Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering".

26) Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Proposal Committee visited the Ministry of Education.

On the afternoon of November 12th, Shao Hong, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of CPPCC led a team to visit the Ministry of Education to learn about the handling of the proposal of the Ministry of Education since the first session of the 13th session of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, listen to the opinions and suggestions on the proposal work of the CPPCC, and negotiate and supervise the relevant key proposals. Huai Jinpeng, Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Education, presided over the forum.

27) The Ministry of Education held a party group meeting and a collective study meeting of the theoretical study center group of the party group to convey the spirit of the important speech made by the Supreme Leader General Secretary at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee and the spirit of the meeting.

On November 12th, the Ministry of Education held a party group meeting and a collective study meeting of the theoretical study center group of the party group to convey the spirit of the important speech made by General Secretary of the Supreme Leader at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee and the spirit of the meeting. The meeting stressed that at present and in the future, it is the primary and important political task of the education system to convey, study and implement the spirit of the important speech and plenary session of General Secretary of the Supreme Leader in a timely manner.

November thirteenth

28) Colleges and universities can arrange their own winter vacation time.

On the 13th, the State Council Joint Defense and Control Mechanism held a press conference. Regarding whether the winter vacation in colleges and universities will be advanced, Wang Dengfeng, director of the Prevention and Control Office of the Ministry of Education and director of the Department of Sports Health and Art Education, said that whether to advance the winter vacation depends first on the development of the epidemic situation, and second on the requirements of various aspects of epidemic prevention and control measures according to the territory. He stressed that according to the actual situation of local schools, all colleges and universities should be encouraged to make independent decisions under the premise of territorial management, in accordance with the relevant requirements of the territory, combined with the requirements of campus prevention and control, curriculum progress and learning arrangements.