Students read at Delong Elementary School in Yuping Dong Autonomous County, Tongren, Guizhou Province, Thursday. The school is a joint work between the county and Changping Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, and all the students come from families that have been relocated through a poverty alleviation project.Fu Punks/Chinese daily newspaper
Report shows more opportunities for children growing up in rural China
A report presented by President Xi Jinping to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will serve as a road map for the country to further promote equality in education and ensure that all students enjoy equal opportunities to shine. , teachers and students said.
The report advocates following a human-centered approach to developing education, acting swiftly to build quality education systems, promoting balanced growth of students, and promoting equity in education. emphasized.
It called for accelerating high-quality and balanced development and urban-rural integration in compulsory education, promoting digitalization, and improving financial support systems to cover students at all stages of school education.
Liu Xiuxiang, delegate to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and vice principal of Wangmao Experimental High School, said he was deeply impressed by the report, which reaffirmed his confidence in the development of rural education.
He said that after witnessing the country’s development over the past decade, he is very proud to have made education accessible to all students.
“In the future, all students will have access to quality education. I would like to collaborate with other local teachers to further develop local education.”
In 2008, Liu made a name for himself by taking his mentally ill mother from Guizhou to a university in Shandong to take care of her.
Liu’s father died when he was four, and his brother and two sisters left home for work when he was 11.
After graduating in 2012, he turned down an offer to work in Beijing and returned to his hometown to become a teacher.
Rural infrastructure has improved significantly, and more children in the mountainous areas will receive a better education and more options to change their lives over the next five years or more. The investment is expected, he told China News Service.
According to the Ministry of Education, a national admissions project launched in 2012 has helped more than 950,000 rural students to enter the country’s leading universities in the past decade by accepting low scores in the National University Entrance Examination (gao khao). I enrolled.
As part of its efforts to alleviate poverty, the country has achieved zero primary and secondary school dropouts and has provided nearly 1.3 billion financial aids to economically disadvantaged students in the past decade, according to the ministry.
Zhang Guimei, head of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and principal of Lijiang Huaping High School, said he was moved to tears when he heard the report.
Founded by Zhang in 2008, it is the first free high school for girls in China. The school enrolls about 2,000 girls from poor families in the mountainous areas of Yunnan province.
Over the past decade, the party and government have worked hard to ensure that every child has access to an education. For children in mountainous areas, education is the only way to change their destiny, Zhang told China Central Television.
Chan said she hopes that all children in rural areas can get a good education, and she will continue to work tirelessly towards that goal.
Yang Rujun, an undergraduate student at Tsinghua University, said many students in his hometown of Dehong Island in Yunnan Province and Jingpo Autonomous County have benefited from educational policies that favor rural students.
In 2012, when I was in 4th grade, I had the opportunity to visit Shanghai during the summer vacation as part of a government-sponsored study tour for students in Yunnan and Tibet.
She visited iconic landmarks and met with local students.
“This trip had a big impact on me, because I knew that as long as I studied hard, I would have the opportunity to see the wider world,” she said.
She has also witnessed significant improvements in her hometown’s educational infrastructure and teachers in recent years.
She said that when she was in elementary school, computers and multimedia devices were rare, but after she entered high school, they became commonplace.
The proliferation of digital educational resources and the growing number of young teachers graduating from prestigious universities will continue to help bridge the gap between urban and rural education, she added.
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