An article published by the China Education Daily (October 8) with the caption 'Strengthening
the Party's Overall Leadership in Education' in connection with the 20th Party Congress
reviewed the 'new chapter of education in the new era and new journey'. Its Editor observed:
'A hundred years of prosperous years, ten years of extraordinary journey. History and reality
have repeatedly proved that the key to running China's affairs well lies in the Party". The article
emphasised that 'Education is the country's plan and the party's plan. Today, there is no other
cause like education, which affects or even determines the training of successors, the long-term
stability of the country, and the rejuvenation of the nation and the rise of the country.' Listing
a series of documents and instructions issued by Xi Jinping, it said 31 colleges and universities
have been selected as "one-stop" student community management reform pilots, and nearly
1,000 colleges and universities are promoted to drive the party building and ideological and
political forces in colleges and universities across the country to accelerate the construction of
a "big ideological and political course" pattern, make good use of social big classrooms, create
online "cloud classrooms", and deepen the ideological and political classrooms. It said in the
past ten years, the ideological and political work team has continued to develop and expand
and from more than 100 colleges and universities presently there are more than 1,440 colleges
and universities across the country providing important talent support for ideological and
political construction. There are more than 127,000 full-time and part-time teachers in
ideological and political courses in colleges and universities, and high education and youth
have become new characteristics of the construction of ideological and political course teachers.
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There are more than 243,000 full-time and part-time counsellors in colleges and universities.
They are the caring people and guardians of the "24-hour online" around students.
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