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Chinese Premier Wen Jiaobao presides
over a meeting on education in Beijing, capital of China, August 29, 2008.
The Chinese government has started to draw up a 12-year plan on education
reform and development, stressing its role in promoting economic
development and technology innovation. (Xinhua/Gao Jie)
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BEIJING, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government
has started to draw up a 12-year plan on education reform and development,
stressing its role in promoting economic development and technology innovation.
A report on the plan's blueprint, raised by the
Ministry of Education, was approved at a meeting of the National Science and
Technology Education Leading Group of the State Council on Friday.
"It is necessary to make a medium and long-term plan
for education reform and development in accordance with the new requirements to
build a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the new trend of domestic
and overseas development and the new expectations of the people," said the
report.
It urged that education be given priority, the
promotion of equity and the development of talent in innovative technology. It
also stressed the role education played in promoting the development of the
economic society.
The leading group agreed the plan should make
specific requirements in terms of education scale, structure, quality and goals
in different phases and in different regions. Also included are major issues
such as the systemic reform of basic, vocational education and college
education.
It is the country's first education plan in the 21st
century, and it will be a very complicated project involving the whole of
society.
The group would solicit advice from experts, parents
and students before drawing up a "satisfactory" guideline.
Premier Wen Jiabao, also head of the group, presided
over the meeting.
Chinese urban students will be free
from tuition and other fees
BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- China will make all urban students free from
tuition and other incidental fees as of the coming Autumn term to promote the
nine year compulsory education system, according to a State Council decision
made Wednesday.
The decision was taken at a State Council (cabinet)
meeting presided by Premier Wen Jiabao. Full story
Premier Wen Jiabao visits three senior
intellectuals
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) talks
with Ji Xianlin, a well-known Chinese author and translator at the General
Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Beijing,capital of
China, on Aug. 2, 2008.(Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)
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BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday paid visits
to three best-known senior intellectuals living in Beijing, honoring his own
promise to call on these over-90-year elders once every year.
The three were linguist Ji Xianlin, founder of China's
space industry Qian Xuesen, and "China's Madame Curie" He Zehui, who is the
widow of China's Father of A-bomb Qian Sanqiang (1913-92). Full story
China's education ministry opens
hotline for poor college students
BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- China's education
watchdog has opened a 24-hour hotline for students who want to go to university
but cannot afford the tuition fees.
The hotline would be operated from Friday to Sept. 15, the
Ministry of Education said on its website. Full story
