The MOE held a meeting on education for ethnic minority groups from April 1 to 2 in Changsha, setting the agenda for 2025. The event represents part of the effort to implement the vision laid out in the 2024 National Education Conference and advance the goals of the 2024–2035 Master Plan on Building China into a Leading Country in Education and its three-year action plan. Vice Minister of Education Xiong Sihao delivered the keynote address.

The meeting emphasized the importance of responding to new challenges with reform-driven, results-oriented strategies to ensure high-quality development of education in ethnic minority regions in the northwest and southwest. Key priorities for 2025 include expanding civic education initiatives to promote national identity and cohesion. This will be achieved through the development of model teachers and exemplary courses, signature events, specialized resources, and pilot reforms.

The MOE also reaffirmed its commitment to the nationwide rollout of standard Chinese language education and the use of nationally unified textbooks in ethnic minority regions. Efforts to modernize talent development approaches, pilot digital learning initiatives, and strengthen regional education partnerships were also highlighted as key to narrowing development gaps between ethnic minority regions and more prosperous coastal regions.

The meeting urged attendees to improve work practices and leadership in line with national directives on education, while implementing educational reform through targeted, pragmatic efforts. The meeting also launched a reform pilot program centered on strengthening national identity through education—particularly among students from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Education officials from all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities attended the meeting.