context: As mentioned in the 2024 Government Work Report 'invigorating China through science and education' is still a focus in the Third Plenum Resolution. Education was mentioned 36 times in the resolution and ‘education and science talents’ prioritised to be the foundations of Chinese modernisation to serve a greater national strategy.
The Third Plenum Resolution calls for a comprehensive reform of education and scitech talent systems.
- education reform
- develop a high-quality education system
- reform teaching methods, school models, management systems and support mechanisms
- education focus
- moral and intellectual development mechanisms
- integrate ideological and political education across primary, secondary and higher education
- holistic student development
- establish long-term mechanisms for teacher ethics and conduct
- reform education evaluation
- higher education
- create world-class universities and disciplines with Chinese characteristics
- promote differentiated reform in higher education institutions
- establish mechanisms for adjusting academic disciplines and talent training to align with technological development and national strategic needs
- develop basic, emerging and interdisciplinary subjects
- cultivate top-tier talent
- implement exceptional plans for urgently needed disciplines
- intelligent medicine
- internet healthcare
- medical devices
- biological breeding
- smart farmland
- seed science and engineering
- intelligent agricultural and forestry equipment
- rural planning and design
- improve innovation capability and technology innovation mechanisms
- increase the efficiency of research result applications
- integrated education
- coordinate between science and humanities
- develop a vocational education system that integrates vocational and general education with industry-education collaboration
- improve student internship and practice systems
- regulate and guide the development of private education.
- promote high-level educational openness and encourage cooperation with high-level foreign science and engineering universities in China
- addressing declining birth rate
- a mechanism for providing basic public education services that aligns with population changes
- promote high-quality and balanced compulsory education
- gradually expand the scope of free education
- support mechanisms for pre-school, special and specialised education
- advance the digitalisation of education
- develop a learning-oriented society
- support for lifelong education