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Foreword
Part 1 Becoming a “logistics master” for national education
Summary
Taking charge of national education
My job as a “logistics master” for education
Three issues: teachers’ salaries and housing, and education funding
To upper levels, more talk about education funding;
to lower levels, about education reform
Reform—a word ingrained in my mind
The strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education
Strengthening legal system in education
Inheriting and carrying on traditions, keeping pace with the times
From sense of responsibility to devotion out of passion
Part 2 Making teaching an enviable job
Summary
Where the hope for a prosperous nation lies
Pay raise: an imperative to keep teachers at their posts
Teacher Law: a legal foundation for improving teachers’well-being
Teachers not on payroll: an urgent issue and the solution
More teachers’ housing, less unnecessary government buildings and facilities
Apartments, rather than dormitories for teachers in the 21st century
Everyone must respect teachers however high his official rank
Part 3 Fulfilling government responsibilities, increasing education funding
Summary
Increasing the benefits of running schools, managing the largest education system in the world
Three increases of education fund corresponding to increase in related items of the budget
Education development: mainly a government responsibility
A public financial system to ensure education funding
“Industrialization of education” is no guide for educational development
Establishing a system to ensure and supervise education funds
Governmentrun public schools as the mainstay developing alongside with nongovernmental schools
Fund raising: encouraging donation from various circles
Admirable patriotism: assistance from compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas
Part 4 Bringing a modern higher education into the 21st century
Summary
（1） Management reform and restructuring
Significant restructuring of universities, colleges and departments
Problems in China’s higher education system and structure
Joint funding, adjustment, cooperation and merging
The first and most difficult step
Dismantling the formidable barrier
Using “delegated power” and “favorable wind” to take advantage of the revolution’s driving force
College reform: an enduring task and a heavy responsibility
Each university must have its distinctive features
Keeping the name of normal university unchanged
Agricultural colleges should not change their characteristics
The need for interdisciplinary cooperation to improve the nation’s medical education level
（2）College reform: admission, graduates’ employment and enrollment enlargement
“Double track”: reforming tuition charges
Financial aid to assist poor eligible students to begin or continue university studies
Improving loan availability to needy students
Increasing college enrollment: the need for the public to realize its benefit
Enlarged college enrollment and strengthening of people’s competition in job market
Training more people for the development of China’s West
（3）Reforming logistic service in colleges and universities
Major changes in the way to run a school
Government guides; colleges and universities act in logistics reform
Student apartments: safe and liveable, not luxurious
Continued attention to logistics service in colleges
Principles for college logistics: centralized delivery and chain management
College’s contribution to modernization of circulation of goods
College library: not just a storage of books but also a promoter of book knowledge
Cultivating good environment and ambiance for studies
Combining college restructuring and logistics reform with the lay out of university district
Against random construction of “university towns”
（4）Reforming higher education and cultivating talents
The place of China’s highereducation in the 21st century
How to create a firstrate, worldrenowned university
The “ Project”: developing key disciplines and creating high level universities
College party secretaries and presidents: improving their political treatment and social status
Eliminating both “inbreeding” and promotion based on seniority
Cultivating innovative and highly competent people
Onward with college teaching reform
College teaching methods: modernising through information dispersal
Introducing latest and best foreign textbooks into Chinese universities
Changing the opinion considering sciences superior to social studies
Training more people for rural economy and agricultural management
Greater attention to training public health workers and medical administrators
Aiming at a breakthrough in traditional Chinese medical and pharmaceutical education
More care and support for art education
Graduate education: quality as well as quantity
Adhering to the “Twelve Words Principle” regarding overseas study
Increasing exchanges with foreign countries in education
（5）Combining college science and technology with production, learning and research
Science and technology system reform: production and marketing of science and technology achievements
Addressing the gap between research and production
Colleges as a driving force behind science and technology innovation
High-tech college enterprises: learning while doing
University science and technology parks: the dawn of a “knowledge economy”
Yang Ling: a new type of S&T agricultural town
College science and technology innovation: three pressing issues
College’s key role in frontier scientific and technological research and development
（6）Review and prospect
Looking back on a decade of reform and development in higher education
Prospect of China’s higher education
Part 5 Laying a foundation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation
Summary
Making basic education a priority
Realization of the top priority of basic education: putting awareness into action
The issues regarding basic education
The need to reform the management of compulsory education in rural areas
Shifting farmers running schools to government management
County governments shoulder primary responsibility for compulsory education in rural areas
Township governments sharing responsibility
Local governments as well as the central government shouldering respective responsibilities
Active implementation of the project for compulsory education in poorer regions
Eliminating unsafe primary and middle school buildings in rural areas
Adjusting the layout of rural primary and middle schools to suit local conditions
Providing financial aid for poor school-age children
Can uneducated farmers modernise agriculture? Impossible!
Shrinking the ruralurban gap with one-on-one aid
For a leap-frog education development in rural areas, IT shows the way
Regulating the system for compulsory education
Speeding up education in ethnic minority regions
Main problems of urban basic education
How to control high extra fee for school selection
Running every compulsory education school well
Developing senior high schools more quickly
Controlling unreasonable charges in primary and middle schools
Nothing overlooked in compulsory education
The importance of early education of children
Society’s responsibility for educating children with disabilities
The General Inspector for National Education
Part 6 Improving qualityoriented education
Summary
（1）Concept of quality-oriented education
Where does the idea come from
Why is it important
What does it mean
Breaking education’s examoriented tendency
Relation with development of all parts of brains
Implementation of education policies in a comprehensive way
（2）Improving moral culture
To the point and adapting to changing situation in moral culture
Let students better understand Deng Xiaoping’s theory and the important thought of the “Three Represents”
Education in traditional Chinese virtues
Learning from other advanced cultures
College students have a healthy outlook
Gearing political education to reality and keeping pace with the times
Keeping abreast of the current state of the nation
Advocating teamwork spirit and cooperation among intellectuals
（3）Reform of curriculum, textbooks and the examination and evaluation systems
Reforming the models for cultivating talents
Dealing with the burden of heavy assignments for primary and secondary school students
Solving textbook issues: complexity, difficulty, digression, outdated contents and errors
Curriculum reform without delay
Reform in foreign language teaching
Learning a foreign language: six point advice
Preserving Chinese characters, our national treasure
Maintaining the current system of simplified characters while encouraging learning a bit of original ones
Speeding up the popularisation of putonghua (common speech)
Reform of the examination and evaluation systems
（4）Enhancing students’ physical and mental well-being
Health first
Personal attention to school safety issues
（5）Aesthetics and arts education
An argument for including aesthetic education in education principles
Art and science are interrelated
Resuming and improving music, art and calligraphy courses in primary and middle schools
Helping students understand art songs
Making art songs more popular among the young
Developing and improving the quality of Chinese national music education
“A Song to Remember” rouses the campus
Launching lessons on symphonic music
（6）Creating a good environment for quality-oriented education
Improving the quality of principals and teachers
Training highly competent teachers
Conducting extracurricular activities among primary and middle school students
Getting society’s support for and involvement in quality-oriented education
Part 7 Breakthroughs in vocational and adult education
Summary
Employmentoriented vocational education
Vocational education develops advanced productive force
Regulation of vocational education on a legal basis
Building a bridge between general and vocational education
The need for further reform and regulation of secondary vocational schools
The transformation of junior colleges and adult colleges into tertiary vocational schools
Speeding up the development of tertiary vocational education
The development and use of high-level technicians
Studying developed countries’ experience in vocational education
Building up a contingent team of highly competent teachers in vocational education
Bringing schools closer to farmers
Advancing the “five reforms” in vocational education
Adapting continued education to the needs of society and individuals
Adult education: an attitude shift from conventional school education to lifelong education
“My little classroom”
Lifelong education for a constantly learning society
Random notes
Introduction
“Modern schools” and oldstyle private tutorial schools
Admitted to the medical college at the age of 15
Temporary chief editor at the New Jiangsu newspaper
Pursuing study at Fudan University
Irrevocably committed to the automotive industry
An amateur translator
Acquiring basic skills as a Party secretary
Insatiable desire to learn
Wide interests
Leading the group to bid for the Olympic Games
Strengthening body and mind
No empty rhetoric, but downtoearth actions
Taking firm hold of the “delegated power” for promoting education
Taking advantage of the “favorable wind”; grasping opportunities
Looking ahead, no polemics, less propaganda, more action
Implementing policies, following normal procedures, no irregular practices
Paying attention to all things worthy of notice
Going through to the end in every endeavors
Creating opportunities for everyone willing to learn
A chronology of the major events in education in the past decade（from January 1993 to March 2003）
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