The second session of the 13th CPC Shandong Provincial Committee opened in Jinan, capital of Shandong Province, on Feb. 14 2019. Liu Jiayi, the secretary of Shandong Provincial Party Committee and director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress, presided over the session, and Gong Zheng, the deputy secretary of Shandong Provincial Party Committee and governor of Shandong Province delivered the report on government work.
Shandong will build, renovate and expand more than 2,000 kindergartens in 2019 to receive more than 500,000 students, according to the government work report. The report pointed out that Shandong will comprehensively promote the free education for disabled children and teenagers in preschool, compulsory and high school education for a total of 15 years.
The report laid out the focus on education development. The province plans to establish the long-term mechanism to solve the problem of class overcrowding in ordinary primary and secondary schools in cities and towns, and run small rural schools and boarding schools in towns and cities. The province will deepen production-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation, and improve vocational education and training school. The province will launch high-quality university construction project and accelerate the development of “double first-class” initiative.
The report proposed to encourage diversified educational services provided by social forces. At the same time, Shandong is going to fully deepen the reform of management mechanism of “county administration and school employment” for primary and middle school teachers. The province will put more efforts into improving the professional ethnics of teachers, attach great importance to teacher training, raise their status and treatment, build the museum of Chinese teachers and value the home education to help children fasten the first button of life.
