formulate and implement a national program for strengthening education. We will carry out the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education and promote integrated development of the political education curriculum across all levels, from elementary school to university.
We will launch an initiative to upgrade basic education, accelerate high-quality, well-balanced development and urban-rural integration of compulsory education, improve conditions in boarding schools in rural areas, and continue efforts to relieve students of excessive burdens from homework and off-campus tutoring. We will enhance public-interest preschool education and promote the development of regular county high schools. We will improve special needs education and continuing education, guide and regulate the development of private education, and redouble efforts to improve vocational education.
We will pilot comprehensive higher-education reform, optimize the composition of disciplines and majors and the layout of resources, accelerate efforts to develop world-class universities and leading disciplines with Chinese features, and improve the operational capacity of higher education institutions in central and western regions. We will vigorously develop digital education.
We will promote the ethos of educators and see that teachers are professionally competent. We will give high priority to the development of education and speed up efforts to modernize education so as to lay a solid foundation for enhancing the wellbeing of our people and the prosperity of our nation.
We will move faster to boost self-reliance and strength in science and technology.
We will fully leverage the strengths of the new system for mobilizing resources nationwide to raise China’s capacity for innovation across the board. We will plan basic research systematically and provide long-term, sustained support to a number of innovation bases, teams with distinctive strengths and research priorities, so as to enhance our capacity for original innovation.
To meet major national strategic demands and demands of industrial development, we will launch a number of major science and technology programs. We will pool our country’s strategic scientific and technological strength and non-governmental innovation resources to make breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields and step up research on disruptive and frontier technologies.
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