Enhancing the Party’s Capacity and Level in Leading the Building of a Strong Education Country

Education is the foundation of building a strong country and achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Strengthening Party leadership is the fundamental guarantee for doing a good job in education work. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “Education work is highly professional and follows strong laws; the leading departments and cadres in charge of education must respect and study education, listen more to the opinions of teachers and experts, and strive to become experts in education management.” One part of planning, nine parts of implementation. Currently, the building of a strong education country is at a critical period. For the Party to firmly grasp leadership over the building of a strong education country and make it a strong bastion for upholding Party leadership, it is necessary to continuously improve the political awareness, strategic vision, and professional capacity of Party members and cadres in promoting the building of a strong education country.

教育是强国建设、民族复兴之基。加强党的领导是做好教育工作的根本保证。习近平总书记强调：“教育工作专业性强、规律性强，管教育的领导部门和领导干部更要尊重和钻研教育，多听听老师专家们意见，努力成为教育管理的行家里手。”一分部署，九分落实。当前教育强国建设正处于关键期，党牢牢掌握对教育强国建设的领导权，使教育强国建设成为坚持党的领导的坚强阵地，需要不断提高党员干部推动教育强国建设的政治觉悟、战略视野、专业能力。

I. Guard the Front of Ideological and Political Guidance, Ensure the Direction of Building a Strong Education Country Does Not Waver

一、守牢思政引领阵地，确保教育强国建设的方向不动摇

At the National Education Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed that building a strong education country “should possess strong ideological and political guidance, talent competitiveness, scientific and technological support, people’s livelihood security, social synergy, and international influence.” Placing ideological and political guidance at the forefront of the “six forces” for building a strong education country fully reflects the political attribute of education, highlights the ideological foundation of building a socialist strong education country, and is a rigid political requirement and core responsibility mission of the Party in leading the building of a strong education country.

习近平总书记在全国教育大会上提出，教育强国建设“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”，将思政引领力置于教育强国建设“六力”的首要位置，是教育的政治属性的充分体现，彰显社会主义教育强国建设的意识形态底色，是党领导教育强国建设的刚性政治要求与核心责任使命。

The “six forces” are not isolated but form an organic whole that intermingles with each other. Ideological and political guidance can enhance the internal drive and comprehensive quality of talent, inspire talent to devote themselves to science and technology to serve the country with patriotic fighting spirit, cultivate students’ basic stance of serving the people, strengthen students’ sense of social responsibility and service awareness, and cultivate students’ international perspective and ability to participate in global governance.

“六力”之间并非孤立，而是彼此交融的有机整体。思政引领力能够增强人才的内驱力与综合素质，激发人才投身科技报效祖国的爱国斗志，涵养学生坚持为人民服务的基本立场，强化学生的社会责任感和服务意识，培养学生的国际视野以及参与全球治理的能力。

Party members and cadres should take ideological and political guidance as the driving force, and the comprehensive effect of the “six forces” should provide strong support for building a strong education country. Education workers should strengthen the construction of ideological and political guidance to achieve the realization of ideological leadership, promote students to establish correct political consciousness, and realize the transformation into correct political emotions, political beliefs, and political behaviors. The education system should further optimize the goals and tasks, cultivation methods, and safeguard measures of ideological and political work in schools, and comprehensively improve the ideological and political education spaces and systems such as curriculum, scientific research, practice, culture, and the internet, placing these tasks in a more prominent and urgent position. By improving the assessment and evaluation mechanism, promote the natural generation, growth, and strengthening of ideological and political guidance in the entire field, all aspects, and the whole process of education.

党员干部要以思政引领力为牵引，“六力”综合效应的发挥，为教育强国建设提供强大的支撑。教育工作者要以强化思政引领力建设实现思想引领力达成，促进学生树立正确的政治意识，并实现向正确的政治情感、政治信仰、政治行为的转化。教育系统要将进一步优化学校思政工作目标任务、培养方式、保障举措以及全面健全课程、科研、实践、文化、网络等思政育人空间与体系等工作摆在更加突出与紧迫的位置上，通过健全考核评价机制促进思政引领力在教育领域全员、全方面、全过程的自然生成、生长以及强大。

II. Adhere to the People-Centered Concept, Ensure the Original Aspiration and Founding Mission of Building a Strong Education Country Do Not Change

二、坚持以人民为中心理念，确保教育强国建设的初心使命不变

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “We must adhere to putting the people first, rely closely on the people, continuously benefit the people, and firmly take root among the people.” Running a strong education country that satisfies the people reflects the people-oriented view of building a strong education country. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “We must adhere to being people-centered, continuously improve the inclusiveness, accessibility, and convenience of public education services, and let the fruits of education reform and development benefit all the people more and more fairly.”

习近平总书记指出：“必须坚持人民至上、紧紧依靠人民、不断造福人民、牢牢植根人民”。办好人民满意的教育强国体现的是教育强国建设的人民观。习近平总书记强调：“要坚持以人民为中心，不断提升教育公共服务的普惠性、可及性、便捷性，让教育改革发展成果更多更公平惠及全体人民。”

Party members and cadres should be good at following the mass line in building a strong education country, place the most direct and realistic education issues that the people care about most in a prominent position, and ensure that education development needs come from the people, education development measures serve the people, and education development results are tested by the people. They should abandon the path dependence and structural imbalance in the distribution of policy attention, scientifically and reasonably allocate policy attention to all stakeholders, especially tilting toward vulnerable groups. They should optimize the allocation of education resources, gradually narrowing the gaps within cities, within counties, between urban and rural areas, and between schools. With “fairness” and “quality” as the two wings, they should coordinate to accelerate the construction of a cultivation system and resource guarantee system suitable for the comprehensive development and individualized development of all students, making education for people’s livelihood warmer and more substantial.

党员干部要善于走好教育强国建设的群众路线，要将人民最关心最直接最现实的教育问题摆在突出位置，要将教育发展需求来自人民、教育发展举措服务人民、教育发展成效由人民检验落在实处。要摒弃政策注意力存在分配思路的路径依赖、结构失衡等不足，科学、合理地将政策注意力分配到全体利益相关者，特别要向弱势群体倾斜。要优化教育资源配置，逐步缩小市域内、县域内、城乡间以及校际差距。要以“公平”“质量”为两翼，协同加快构建适宜全体学生全面发展、个性发展的培养体系与资源保障体系，让教育民生更有温度与厚度。

III. Strengthen Understanding of Laws, Ensure the Path of Building a Strong Education Country Does Not Deviate

三、加强规律性认识，确保教育强国建设的路径不偏移

Education is a science. The scientific grasp and understanding of the laws of education, teaching, and talent growth are key factors determining the effectiveness of education functions. The historical practice of New China’s education development proves that the more accurate and profound the Party’s understanding of the laws of education, the more prosperous our education cause becomes, and the more prominent the foundational and strategic position of education.

教育是一门科学，对教育规律、教学规律以及人才成长规律的科学把握与认识，是决定教育功能成效发挥的关键因素之一。新中国教育发展的历史实践证明，党对教育规律性认识越准确、越深刻，我们的教育事业发展越繁荣，教育的基础性、战略性地位越凸显。

In September 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping systematically elaborated the “nine insistences” [1]1 The 20th National Congress of the CPC was held in October 2022, at which Xi Jinping delivered for education reform and development, fundamentally answering major questions such as “what kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate them, and for whom to cultivate them” and “what kind of education to run, and how to run it.” This is a new achievement of the Communist Party of China in exploring the laws of socialist education development. In September 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping systematically and deeply elaborated and deployed the scientific connotation and basic path of building a strong education country, the major relationships that need to be correctly handled, and the strategic tasks and major measures, further deepening the Communist Party of China’s understanding of the laws of building a socialist strong education country, pointing the direction and providing fundamental guidance for education modernization and the building of a strong education country.

2018年9月，习近平总书记系统阐述了教育改革发展的“九个坚持”，从根本上回答了“培养什么样的人、怎样培养人、为谁培养人”“办什么样的教育、怎样办教育”等重大问题，是中国共产党探索社会主义教育发展规律的新成果。2024年9月，习近平总书记对教育强国建设的科学内涵和基本路径、需要正确处理好的重大关系以及战略任务和重大举措等进行了系统且深入的阐述与部署，进一步深化了中国共产党探索社会主义教育强国建设的规律性认识，为教育现代化建设、教育强国建设指明了方向，提供了根本遵循。

On the basis of possessing excellent political literacy and moral cultivation, Party members and cadres should continuously improve their professional quality in education, management skills, and their awareness and grasp of the current situation and problems in education through practice and dialogue and cooperation with teachers and other groups. They should deeply grasp the interactive relationships between education and politics, economy, culture, population, etc., conduct in-depth research on the essential changes brought about by high-quality development of education and the building of a strong education country, and based on the new situations, new problems, and new hot spots faced, promote innovation in educational practice, educational systems, educational institutions, and educational mechanisms, and promote high-quality development of all types and levels of education according to objective laws.

党员干部在拥有过硬的政治素养、品德修养的基础上，要在实践中、在与教师等群体的对话合作中，不断提升自身的教育专业素质、管理才能以及对教育现状和问题的认知度、把握度。要深刻把握教育与政治、经济、文化、人口等之间的互动关系，深入研究教育高质量发展、教育强国建设带来的本质性变革，立足面临的新形势、新问题、新热点，促进教育实践、教育体制、教育制度、教育机制的创新，推动各级各类教育按客观规律高质量发展。

IV. Promote the Coordinated Development of Education Strategy, Science and Technology Strategy, and Talent Strategy, Ensure the Strategic Tasks of Building a Strong Education Country Are Not Relaxed

四、推动教育战略与科技战略、人才战略协同发展，确保教育强国建设的战略任务不松懈

The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC proposed the “education, science and technology, talent” trinity strategic layout, highlighting their foundational and strategic supporting role in comprehensively building a modern socialist country. The coordinated development of education, science and technology, and talent is an important manifestation of the strategic attribute of education. The object of education implementation is people, and the result of education development is to cultivate tens of thousands of talents with comprehensive development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. The development of science and technology requires people as the main body to implement it, and needs to fully stimulate people’s creativity and subjective initiative. It can be said that both education and science and technology development rely on talent. On the new journey of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and building a modern strong country, talent cultivation has been placed at the top of national strategic development. The fundamental purpose of the “education, science and technology, talent” trinity strategic layout is to promote the progress of science and technology through education, to cultivate scientific and technological teams for current and future scientific and technological progress through education, to promote the development of new quality productive forces, and to improve the comprehensive strength of China’s science and technology.

党的二十大报告提出“教育、科技、人才”三位一体战略布局，突出三者在全面建设社会主义现代化国家中的基础性、战略性支撑作用。教育与科技、人才的协同发展，是教育战略属性的重要体现。教育的实施对象是人，教育发展的结果是培养数以万计的德智体美劳全面发展的人才。科技的发展需要人作为主体来实施，需要充分激发人的创造性与主观能动性。可以说，教育和科技的发展都依靠人才，在实现中华民族伟大复兴、建设现代化强国的新征程上，人才培养已被置于国家战略发展的首要位置。“教育、科技、人才”三位一体战略布局的根本是要通过教育促进科学技术的进步，通过教育为当前及今后科学技术的进步培养科技队伍，促进新质生产力发展，提高我国科技的综合实力。

Party members and cadres should promote higher education to focus on the world’s scientific and technological frontiers, improve the discipline setting adjustment mechanism and talent cultivation model, and strengthen the research and innovation of core and cutting-edge technologies; promote vocational education to accelerate the improvement of the system for cultivating a large number of great craftsmen, skilled craftsmen, and high-skilled talents, and deepen the integration of industry and education; promote basic education to strengthen the cultivation of patriotic feelings and exploratory and innovative thinking qualities while consolidating students’ basic knowledge.

党员干部应推动高等教育重点瞄准世界科技前沿，完善学科设置调整机制及人才培养模式，强化核心技术、前沿技术的攻关创新；推动职业教育加快完善培养大批大国工匠、能工巧匠、高技能人才的体系建设，深化产教融合；推动基础教育在夯实学生基础性知识的前提下，强化报国情怀以及探索性和创新性思维品质的培养。

V. Use the Systems Concept, Ensure the Comprehensive Advancement of Tasks for Building a Strong Education Country

五、用好系统观念，确保教育强国建设的任务全面推进

Human society is a vast complex system, and education, as a subsystem of human society, is also a complex subsystem. Adhering to and applying the systems concept to promote Chinese-path modernization is an important scientific methodology of the Communist Party of China. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed

人类社会是一个宏大的复杂系统，教育作为人类社会的子系统，同样也是复杂子系统。坚持和运用系统观念推进中国式现代化，是中国共产党重要的科学方法论。习近平总书记指出，“建设教育强国是一项复杂的系统工程”，要“坚持和运用系统观念，正确处理支撑国家战略和满足民生需求、知识学习和全面发展、培养人才和满足社会需要、规范有序和激发活力、扎根中国大地和借鉴国际经验等重大关系”。

Party members and cadres should focus on adapting to educational modernization as the basic standard, take building an educational power as the development goal, specifically take conceptual change as the guide, system optimization as an important foundation, institutional construction as the basic guarantee, content improvement as an important carrier, method innovation as the fundamental path, and efficient governance as the main breakthrough point. They should be adept at comprehensively implementing measures in terms of hard and soft aspects such as funding, teaching staff, venues, and informatization, systematically removing a series of ideological concepts and institutional mechanisms that constrain high-quality development in education. They should comprehensively guide families to cooperate well with school education work, actively build good family traditions, and achieve greater synergy between family education and school education. They should establish and improve the working mechanism for social public and public welfare resources to participate in school education, actively coordinate with departments such as propaganda, culture and tourism, industry and information technology, and natural resources, organizations such as the science and technology associations, women’s federations, and foundations, institutions such as research institutes, and village (neighborhood) community committees, fully utilize the various educational resources they possess to support the comprehensive development of students, and establish a scientific view of talent, view of success, and view of education, striving to ensure that the overall and partial aspects of building an educational power are matched, that addressing both root causes and symptoms are combined, and that gradual progress and breakthroughs promote each other.

党员干部要注重以适应教育现代化为基本标准、以教育强国为发展目标，具体以理念变革为先导、以体系优化为重要基础、以制度建设为基本保障、以内容完善为重要载体、以方法创新为根本路径、以高效治理为主要突破口，善于从办学的经费、师资、场地、信息化等硬软件方面综合施策，系统破除系列制约教育高质量发展的思想观念和体制机制。要全面指导家庭做好配合学校教育工作，积极构建良好家风，实现家庭教育与学校教育形成更大合力。要建立健全社会公共与公益资源参与学校教育的工作机制，积极协调宣传、文化和旅游、工业和信息化、自然资源等部门，科协、妇联、基金会等组织，科研院所等机构以及村（居）社区委员会，充分利用自身所拥有的各类教育资源支持学生全面发展，并树立科学的人才观、成才观、教育观，努力做到教育强国建设的全局和局部相配套、治本和治标相结合、渐进和突破相促进。

VI. Adhere to Adapting Measures to Local Conditions, Ensure the Efficient Achievement of the Goals of Building an Educational Power

六、坚持因地制宜，确保教育强国建设目标高效达成

The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC [1]1 The 20th National Congress of the CPC was held in October 2022, at which Xi Jinping delivered proposed that “Chinese-path modernization is the modernization of a huge population.” “A huge population scale” is a typical national condition of our country and a foundational characteristic and realistic condition of Chinese-path modernization. “A huge population scale” requires that the construction of an educational power in our country adhere to the attitude of seeking truth from facts, deeply grasp the worldview and methodology of adapting measures to local conditions, not engage in “one-size-fits-all” approaches, not deliberately pursue “synchronization,” and encourage all localities to combine the national overall goals, general policies, and general requirements, understand their own actual conditions, and produce concrete and effective measures that adapt to the high-quality development of regional education.

党的二十大报告提出，“中国式现代化是人口规模巨大的现代化”。“人口规模巨大”是我国的典型国情，也是中国式现代化的基础性特征和现实条件。“人口规模巨大”要求我国教育强国建设要坚持实事求是的态度，深刻把握因地制宜这一世界观和方法论，不搞“一刀切”，不刻意追求“同步”，要鼓励各地结合国家总目标、总方针、总要求，摸清自身家底实情，拿出适应区域教育高质量发展的硬招实招。

Party members and cadres should, based on the current status of educational development in different regions and the supporting capacity of internal and external resources, scientifically design the implementation paths and phased development goals for building educationally strong provinces, educationally strong cities, and educationally strong counties (districts). They should adhere to law-based teaching, law-based school running, and law-based school governance, construct an educational evaluation system that adapts to the construction of an educational power, conforms to China’s actual conditions, and has a world level, and promote the reasonable assessment and achievement of effectiveness through evaluation. They should form a “public consensus” in the field of education through policy guidance, and ensure that the “public consensus” ultimately becomes “public interest” and “public benefit” through strong and efficient policy implementation.

党员干部要针对不同地区教育发展现状、内外部资源支撑能力，科学设计教育强省、教育强市、教育强县（区）的实施路径以及阶段性发展目标。要坚持依法执教、依法办学、依法治校，构建适应教育强国建设、符合我国实际、具有世界水平的教育评价体系，以评价促成效的合理评估与达成。要通过政策引导形成教育领域“公共共识”，通过强有力、高效的政策执行，确保“公共共识”最终形成“公共利益”“公共效益”。

(Author profiles: Zhang Haishui, doctoral student at the School of Marxism, Wuhan University of Technology, Office Director and Associate Researcher of the Guangzhou Education Research Institute; Guo Guoxiang, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Marxism, Wuhan University of Technology.)

（作者简介：张海水，武汉理工大学马克思主义学院博士研究生，广州市教育研究院办公室主任、副研究员；郭国祥，武汉理工大学马克思主义学院教授、博士生导师。）

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