Strengthening the Social Synergy for Building a Strong Educational Country

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the National Education Conference that “the strong educational country we aim to build is a strong socialist educational country with Chinese characteristics, which should possess strong ideological and political guiding force, talent competitiveness, scientific and technological support, people’s livelihood guarantee, social synergy, and international influence.” Building a strong educational country is a systematic project and a mission of the times and a shared responsibility of the entire Party and the whole society. Running education to the satisfaction of the people cannot be achieved without strong ideological synergy, strength synergy, and resource synergy.

习近平总书记在全国教育大会上指出，“我们要建成的教育强国，是中国特色社会主义教育强国，应当具有强大的思政引领力、人才竞争力、科技支撑力、民生保障力、社会协同力、国际影响力”。教育强国建设是一项系统工程，是全党全社会的时代使命与共同责任。办好人民满意的教育，离不开强大的思想协同、力量协同与资源协同。

Forming a Strategic Consensus

形成战略共识

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, China’s educational undertakings have achieved historic accomplishments, with a significant increase in a series of quantitative indicators such as the scale of education, the level of popularization, the gross enrollment rate in higher education, and the cultural level of the population. However, the transformation from a large educational country to a strong educational country is not only an accumulation of quantity but also a process of systematic leap and qualitative change. In this process, the primary task is to form a strategic consensus among all sectors of society for collaborative construction, thereby achieving a high degree of ideological identification and unity in action.

党的十八大以来，我国教育事业取得了历史性成就，教育规模、普及水平、高等教育毛入学率、人口文化程度等一系列量化指标大幅提升。但由教育大国向教育强国转变，不仅是量的积累，更是一个系统性跃升和质变的过程。在此过程中，首要的是形成社会各方协同建设的战略共识，进而实现思想上的高度认同与行动上的高度统一。

At present, the changes unseen in a century are accelerating, and a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is deepening. Education is increasingly becoming a key factor in enhancing the country’s core competitiveness and gaining strategic initiative. As the main channel for disseminating mainstream ideology and the spiritual bond for building social consensus, ideological and political education must transform macro national strategies into ideological resonance among all sectors of society, enhance the whole society’s value identification with the strategic positioning that building a strong educational country supports Chinese-path modernization, and lay the cognitive foundation for the active participation and coordinated efforts of various social subjects. Only by reaching a strategically consistent consensus can we ensure that the Party and the state obtain lasting social support in the implementation of major educational policies, thereby consolidating a broad mass base for building a strong educational country.

当前，世界百年未有之大变局加速演进，新一轮科技革命和产业变革深入发展，教育越来越成为提升国家核心竞争力、赢得战略主动的关键因素。思想政治教育作为传播主流意识形态的主渠道、凝聚社会共识的精神纽带，必须将宏观国家战略转化为社会各方的思想共鸣，提升全社会对教育强国建设支撑中国式现代化这一战略定位的价值认同，奠定各类社会主体主动参与、协同发力的认知基础。只有达成认知一致的战略共识，才能确保党和国家在重大教育政策落实中获得持久的社会支持，为教育强国建设夯实广泛的群众基础。

Teachers are the guides for students on the path of growth, akin to “jointing and booting” in a plant’s life cycle, determining the effectiveness of the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education and the quality of talent cultivation. The “Opinions of the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council on Promoting the Spirit of Educators and Strengthening the Construction of a High-Quality Professional Teacher Team in the New Era” particularly emphasizes promoting the social custom of respecting teachers and valuing education, and cultivating a culture of respecting teachers and valuing education. On the one hand, we must strengthen the construction of teacher ethics and conduct, use the spirit of educators to forge and strengthen teachers, enhance the ideological and political literacy and professional capabilities of this key subject, so that they love teaching, are good at teaching, and devote themselves to educating people, winning social respect through solid scholarship and exemplary words and deeds; on the other hand, we must enhance teachers’ sense of professional identity, honor, and mission, making teaching truly one of the most respected professions in society, creating a favorable social atmosphere of respecting teachers and valuing education, encouraging more outstanding talents to invest in the educational cause, and laying a solid team foundation for building a strong educational country.

教师是学生成长道路上“拔节孕穗”的引路人，决定着立德树人根本任务落实成效和人才培养质量。《中共中央国务院关于弘扬教育家精神加强新时代高素质专业化教师队伍建设的意见》特别强调弘扬尊师重教社会风尚，厚植尊师重教文化。一方面，加强师德师风建设，以教育家精神铸魂强师，提升这一关键主体的思想政治素养和专业能力，使其爱教善教、潜心育人，以扎实学问、言行示范赢得社会尊重；另一方面，提升教师的职业认同感、荣誉感和使命感，使教师真正成为社会最为尊重的职业之一，在全社会营造尊师重教的良好风尚，激励更多优秀人才投入教育事业，为教育强国建设筑牢坚实的队伍基础。

Enhancing the Joint Force for Educating People

提升育人合力

Building a strong educational country cannot be shouldered by a single region or school alone; it requires forming a joint force for running education by the whole society, with the government taking the lead, schools implementing, society supporting, and families fulfilling their responsibilities.

建设教育强国，仅靠一域一校难以独擎，要形成政府主导、学校落实、社会支撑、家庭尽责的全社会办教育的合力。

The government is the leading force in building a strong educational country, playing an important role in overall planning in top-level design such as resource allocation, policy orientation, and institutional guarantees. Governments at all levels should establish a correct outlook on political performance, always prioritize education in strategic development, optimize the orientation of educational evaluation, and abandon the evaluation misconceptions that only focus on scores and enrollment rates; improve the financial guarantee mechanism for education, increase comprehensive assistance and investment in underdeveloped regions and key educational fields; further improve the education and teaching system, improve and perfect the mechanism for home-school-society collaborative education, optimize and coordinate various educational subjects, and consolidate and expand the main forces for building a strong educational country.

政府是教育强国建设的主导力量，在资源配置、政策导向、制度保障等顶层设计方面，发挥着统筹全局的重要作用。各级政府应树立正确政绩观，始终把教育摆在优先发展的战略地位，优化教育评价导向，摒弃唯分数、唯升学的评价误区；完善教育财政保障机制，加大对落后地区、关键教育领域的综合性帮扶与投入；进一步健全教育教学体系、健全完善家校社协同育人机制，优化协调各教育主体，巩固拓展教育强国建设的主体力量。

Schools at all levels and of all types shoulder the major mission of cultivating more new generations of the times who are trustworthy to the Party, patriotic and dedicated, and capable of shouldering the heavy responsibility of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. School education should actively respond to the demands of the times for developing new quality productive forces, improve the institutional mechanisms for fostering virtue through education, integrate fostering virtue through education into all aspects of ideological and moral, cultural knowledge, and social practice education, and connect the disciplinary system, teaching system, textbook system, and management system, vigorously promoting all-staff, whole-process, all-round education; adhere to the concept of open schooling, actively link society and families to participate in educational practice; on this basis, accelerate the integrated construction of ideological and political education in primary, secondary, and tertiary schools, build a “grand ideological and political” education system, and continuously enhance the ability to serve the construction of a modernized strong country.

各级各类学校肩负着培养更多让党放心、爱国奉献、担当民族复兴重任的时代新人的重大使命。学校教育要主动呼应发展新质生产力的时代要求，健全立德树人体制机制，把立德树人融入思想道德、文化知识、社会实践教育各环节，贯通学科体系、教学体系、教材体系、管理体系，大力推进全员全过程全方位育人；秉持开门办学理念，积极联动社会、家庭参与育人实践；在此基础上，加快推进大中小学思想政治教育一体化建设，构建“大思政”育人体系，不断提升服务现代化强国建设的能力。

Society is the spatial extension of the educational field and an important source of educational resources, playing an irreplaceable supporting role in promoting the diversification of educational content, the innovation of learning methods, and the socialization of educational goals. Various social organizations and enterprises should actively respond to the concept of “grand ideological and political” construction, continuously expand the field of educational practice through industry-education integration, campus co-construction, and venue linkage, and promote the formation of strategic synergy between social forces and school education in value identification and practical pathways.

社会是育人场域的空间延伸和教育资源的重要来源，对推动教育内容多样化、学习方式创新化和育人目标社会化具有不可替代的支撑作用。各类社会组织、企业要积极响应“大思政”建设理念，通过产教融合、校园共建、场馆联动等方式不断拓展育人实践场域，推动社会力量与学校教育在价值认同与实践路径上形成战略合力。

The foundational role of family education in building a strong educational country cannot be ignored. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that “no matter how the times change, no matter how the economy and society develop, for a society, the life support of the family is irreplaceable, the social function of the family is irreplaceable, and the civilizing role of the family is irreplaceable.” Through methods such as cadres taking the lead, experts offering strategies, and social advocacy, we should guide social members to form good family traditions and family education in daily family life, subtly practice the core socialist values, and promote family education to align with the national demand for talent cultivation.

家庭教育在教育强国建设中的基础作用不容忽视。习近平总书记强调，“无论时代如何变化，无论经济社会如何发展，对一个社会来说，家庭的生活依托都不可替代，家庭的社会功能都不可替代，家庭的文明作用都不可替代”。要通过干部带头、专家谋策、社会倡导等方式，引导社会成员在家庭日常生活中形成良好的家教家风，潜移默化地践行社会主义核心价值观，推动家庭教育与国家人才培养需求同向同行。

Gathering Social Resources

汇聚社会资源

To build a strong educational country, it is necessary to gather more social resources conducive to high-quality development, effectively integrate resource elements, optimize resource allocation, and provide all-round guarantees.

建设教育强国，要汇聚更多有利于高质量发展的社会资源，有效整合资源要素、优化资源配置，提供全方位保障。

Material resources are the foundational guarantee and rigid support for achieving high-quality development of educational undertakings and promoting educational equity and balance. Building a strong educational country requires systematically integrating and optimizing the allocation of sufficient and balanced social material resources, bridging regional resource gaps, ensuring educational equity, and driving the leap in educational quality. We should guide social organizations, enterprises, and the public to actively assume corresponding responsibilities in building a strong educational country, form a targeted investment mechanism through government leadership, school organization, social funding, and individual public welfare, and rely on the social supervision system to scientifically evaluate, provide feedback on, and continuously optimize the use of social resources, providing strong material guarantees for the strategy of building a strong educational country.

物质资源是实现教育事业高质量发展、促进教育公平均衡的基础性保障与刚性支撑。教育强国建设需要系统整合并优化配置充足、均衡的社会物质资源，弥合区域资源差距、保障教育公平、驱动教育质量跃升。要引导社会组织、企业以及公众在教育强国建设中主动承担相应责任，通过政府牵头、学校组织、社会资助、个人公益等途径形成定向投入机制，并依托社会监督体系对社会资源使用情况进行科学评估反馈与持续优化，为教育强国战略提供坚强物质保障。

Talent resources are the primary resource for comprehensively building a modern socialist strong country. Their scope not only covers the teaching force but also extends to professional talents in fields such as scientific and technological innovation, industrial practice, culture and arts, and public services. We should synergistically leverage the expertise of school education and various industries, focus on promoting the deep integration of a high-quality education system with high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, provide cutting-edge perspectives and social experience for school curriculum development and talent cultivation, educational governance and social practice, and build diversified learning platforms and career paths for student growth. Implement the principle of the Party managing talent throughout the entire process of talent selection, cultivation, evaluation, and incentive, promote collaborative innovation in educational practice among experts and scholars, corporate elites, cultural celebrities, and frontline teachers and students, and provide talent support for the transition from a large educational country to a strong educational country.

人才资源是全面建成社会主义现代化强国的第一资源，其范畴不仅涵盖教师队伍，而且延伸至科技创新、产业实践、文化艺术、公共服务等各领域的专业人才。要协同发挥学校教育与各行各业的人才专长，着力推进高质量教育体系与高水平科技自立自强深度融合，为学校课程研发与人才培养、教育治理与社会实践提供前沿视角与社会经验，为学生成长搭建多元化学习平台与职业路径。将党管人才原则贯穿人才选拔、培养、评价与激励全流程，推动专家学者、企业精英、文化名家与一线师生协同创新教育实践，为实现教育大国向教育强国迈进提供人才支撑。

Policy guarantees are the fundamental institutional resources for building a strong educational country, with functions such as directional guidance and stable operation. They are key elements for breaking down institutional and mechanism barriers in education and forming social synergy. In practice, the Party’s and the state’s educational concepts and policy guidelines should be implemented in medium- and long-term development plans and educational laws and regulations, forming authoritative policy texts and institutional arrangements. Through policy propaganda and interpretation, effectively enhance the degree of social policy identification and execution. At the same time, build cross-departmental coordination mechanisms to ensure that education, propaganda, finance, human resources, and other related policies are coordinated and consistent in actual operation, guide governments at all levels and social organizations to work in the same direction within the established policy framework, and provide sustained and precise institutional and mechanism guarantees for building a strong educational country.

政策保障是教育强国建设的根本性制度资源，具有方向引领、稳定运行等功能，是破解教育体制机制障碍、形成社会协同合力的关键要素。实践中，应将党和国家的教育理念、政策方针贯彻于中长期发展规划和教育法规中，形成具有权威性的政策文本与制度安排。通过政策宣讲解读，有效提升社会政策认同度与执行力。同时，构建跨部门协调机制，确保教育、宣传、财政、人力等相关政策在实际操作中协同一致，引导各级政府和社会组织在既定政策框架下同向发力，为教育强国建设提供持续而精准的体制机制保障。

(Author: Wang Jingyun, Dean and Professor of the School of Marxism, Harbin Engineering University)

（作者：王景云，系哈尔滨工程大学马克思主义学院院长、教授）

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