The official Global Times on December 25, 2017 reported that China's Education Ministry plans to send more than 10,000 experienced teachers to the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to improve education in the regions. It said a "group of exceptional teachers" will be dispatched to Tibet and Xinjiang from other regions in China each year to guide and train local teachers and help upgrade the quality of local education. The first group of 4,000 teachers will be sent to Tibet and Xinjiang in the Spring of 2018 and each group will stay in the two regions for about 18 months. The Ministry said the teachers "will provide a firm safeguard to the social economic development and peace in Tibet and Xinjiang", help improve the education philosophy of local schools and foster "qualified constructors and successors to the cause of socialism". The plan, which will mainly focus on science teachers and high school teachers, will select teachers from high-quality elementary and high schools in provinces and cities such as Beijing, Tianjin and Shandong Province. The plan guarantees proper financial and service support to ensure the work of teachers.

(Comment: The General Office of the State Council released a guideline in June 2016 for boosting the development of education in central and western regions and stressing the improvement of efforts to set up secondary school classes for ethnic minority students from Tibet and Xinjiang in other regions of China.The guideline announced that 30,000 teachers from other areas of China will be dispatched to work in Tibet and Xinjiang by 2020, displacing over 90 percent of local science teachers, who will receive additional training.)