Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng held a meeting on Feb. 21 to strengthen research on educational policies and strategies in order to facilitate implementation of the 2024–2035 Master Plan on Building China into a Leading Country in Education and the “Three-Year Action Plan.”

The meeting underlined the importance of enhancing the researchers’ capacity to conduct educational policy research and provide advisory services. Departments serving as think tanks under the Ministry of Education (MOE) were asked to improve their governance structure, increase mutual synergies, and continue to enhance their professional expertise, with a view to increasing the contribution of education to China’s modernization drive.

The meeting proposed five major tasks for these departments:

a) Improve the design of the moral education curriculum by incorporating the Party’s latest innovative theories;

b) Advance reform in the higher education sector by facilitating the application and commercialization of universities’ scientific achievements and by exploring new models of cultivating top-notch talent;

c) Establish a public education system that is adapted to demographic changes and to developments in social structure, industry, and science and technology;

d) Develop a series of national platforms, standards, and brands that will increase China’s influence in the international educational arena; and

e) Implement pilot projects to solve problems in the country’s educational development.