The city’s education conference was held, and the Provincial Department of Education and the Municipal Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement.

On January 2, the city’s education conference was held to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on education, fully implement the spirit of the national and provincial education conferences, and deploy and promote the construction of an education-strong city. Municipal Party Committee Secretary Zhou Hongbo attended and spoke, Mayor Chen Zhichang presided over the meeting, Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee Chairman Long Xiang, Municipal CPPCC Chairman Wang Liping, and Municipal Party Committee Deputy Secretary Li Baiping attended, and Provincial Department of Education Director Jiang Yong delivered a speech. The Provincial Department of Education signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the municipal government.

On behalf of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, Zhou Hongbo expressed his sincere gratitude to the Provincial Department of Education and universities in Nanjing for their guidance and support for Nanjing’s education work, and paid high tribute to the city’s teachers and educators.

He said that education is a major national and party priority. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the National Education Conference issued a general mobilization order to accelerate the construction of an education power in the new era and new journey. Nanjing has the ability and responsibility to take the lead and set an example in accelerating the construction of an education power and an education power province.

We must deeply understand the political, people-oriented, and strategic attributes of education, unswervingly adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, provide education that satisfies the people, coordinate the implementation of the strategies of strengthening the city through education, science and technology, industry, and talent, inherit the profound cultural heritage, make good use of rich scientific and educational resources, and strive to demonstrate the responsibility of the provincial capital by building an education development highland with strong ideological and political leadership, strong talent competitiveness, strong scientific and technological support, strong people’s livelihood guarantee, strong social coordination, and strong international influence in the province.

Zhou Hongbo emphasized that we must stay focused on the goal of becoming the first city in the province to become a strong educational city and focus on the implementation of key tasks.

We must take moral education as the foundation , persist in using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to educate people, highlight the key position of ideological and political education, the educational concept of developing five aspects simultaneously, and the distinctive advantages of practical education, and accelerate the construction of a new pattern of educating and cultivating talents.

It is necessary to focus on strengthening support , focus on building the main bearing area of ​​the industrial science and technology innovation center, deepen school-local cooperation, strengthen talent cultivation and retention, promote the integration of industry and education, and accelerate the formation of new momentum for service development.

We must be guided by the people’s expectations , strengthen preschool education, compulsory education, high school education, special education and lifelong education, and focus on high quality, accessibility, balance and distinctiveness, so as to accelerate the realization of new improvements in education quality.

We must be guided by the spirit of educators , establish the first standard of teachers’ ethics and style, improve the professional quality of the teaching staff, create a social atmosphere of respecting teachers and valuing education, and accelerate the display of new vitality in the teaching staff.

We must use reform and innovation as the driving force to improve the education evaluation, campus safety and security, and student mental health service systems, and accelerate new breakthroughs in education development.

We must uphold and strengthen the Party’s overall leadership over education and vigorously create a good environment for the whole society to care about and support the development of education.

Jiang Yong fully affirmed the achievements made by Nanjing in education in recent years, and said that the Provincial Department of Education will take the strategic cooperation as an opportunity to support Nanjing’s construction of a strong education city with greater efforts. He hoped that Nanjing would focus on cultivating morality and cultivating people, adhere to the people’s attributes, strengthen integrated development, strengthen the construction of the teaching staff, run education that satisfies the people, and contribute more to the high-standard construction of a strong education province and the promotion of the new practice of Chinese-style modernization in Jiangsu.

Chen Zhichang emphasized that all levels and departments must enhance their political awareness, ideological awareness and action awareness in building a strong city of education, firmly grasp the correct direction of education work, coordinate the key tasks of building a strong city of education, ensure that they are implemented without fail, and effectively form an overall synergy for education, and work together to push the city’s education cause to a new level.