A speech on creating strength through education

A strong country must first strengthen education, and Guangdong must first promote education; The prosperity of education brings prosperity to all walks of life, and the strength of education brings sufficient stamina. In recent years, the Meizhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government has made a far-sighted plan for the development of education, pushed forward the education reform with great boldness and courage, and explored a new development path of supporting the green rise of the region and promoting industrial transformation and upgrading with education. In 2008, Meizhou put forward the development goal of building a "strong city through education", with an investment of more than 4 billion yuan, and successfully established a strong city through education in 6 counties (cities, districts) and 85 towns (streets), becoming a mountainous city with the most acceptance and the fastest progress in the same period in the province. Education equity has been effectively guaranteed, and people's satisfaction with education has been greatly improved, which has become the green rise strategy of Meizhou.

The first dragon: emphasize the process and draw a blueprint for the party and government.

"The top leader is responsible for taking the lead in creating strength. If you do it, you will go up and stay and continue."

A century-long plan, education-oriented. Since this sentence was put forward in the 1980s, it has been regarded as a distinguished guest in the campus window, which makes educators feel a heavy burden and dare not relax. However, compared with other industries, education is undoubtedly not dominant in the hands of regional leaders: large investment, long cycle and slow effect. Therefore, in some areas, leaders' attention to education can only stay in various official documents. To really implement it, I'm afraid we must first develop the economy. In underdeveloped areas where fiscal revenue is embarrassing, the task of building a strong education province is even more arduous.

Meizhou is the most populous mountain city in the province, and it is an underdeveloped area that started late, but education has been really valued here. In recent years, in the process of implementing the strategy of "fully accelerating the rise of green economy and building a rich, beautiful and happy Meizhou", Meizhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have deeply realized that in order to make a difference in the new round of development competition, we must give full play to the late-comer advantage of advocating and attaching importance to education, adhere to the priority of education, give full play to the functional role of education, and provide intellectual support and talent guarantee for Meizhou to realize the "green rise".

Party and government take the lead, and leaders lead the team to promote the "creativity" of education.

Whether in government agencies or enterprises, a key factor in doing a good job is to get the attention and support of leaders. In order to implement the work of "building a strong city" through education, Meizhou City established a leading group of "building a strong city" with the main leaders of the municipal party committee and the municipal government and the heads of relevant departments as members, and established an office of "building a strong city through education". Li, secretary of Meizhou Municipal Party Committee, mayor and deputy mayor, led many times to guide the work in Chuangqiang County (city, district). With the personal leadership of the secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and the active participation of the heads of various departments, Meizhou has achieved remarkable results in "creating a strong education": since the implementation of "creating a strong education" in 2008, it has successfully created 6 counties (cities, districts) and 85 towns (streets), becoming a mountainous city with the highest acceptance and the fastest progress in the same period, and taking the lead in exploring a road to a mountainous city.

Under the leadership of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, the work of "striving for Excellence" in education has also been highly valued in all districts and counties of Meizhou City. Taking Meixian, Ye Shuai's hometown, as an example, at the mobilization meeting to create a strong education county in Guangdong, the county party secretary asked all towns (offices and senior management meetings) to take "education that people are satisfied with" as the goal, overcome all difficulties and ensure that the task of creating a strong education county was completed as planned. At the same time, the county party committee and the county government also made it clear that they will fully support the towns in terms of policies and funds. The main leaders of the county attach great importance to the work of "building a strong country through health". Li, then secretary of the county party Committee and then county magistrate, personally mobilized, deployed and supervised the work of "building a strong country with health care", often went to the town of "building a strong country with health care" to supervise and inspect, work on the spot, and coordinate and solve the difficulties and problems encountered in the work of "building a strong country with health care" and school construction; The county people's congress and the county CPPCC have organized many special investigations to provide decision-making basis for solving the hot and difficult problems in the work of "striving for Excellence first"; Li, the party secretary and executive deputy director of the county people's congress in charge of the work of creating strength, and the deputy magistrate in charge of education, often goes deep into towns and schools to investigate and supervise the work of creating strength. With the attention and support of the county party committee and government, the towns in Meixian County have created a strong atmosphere of "building a strong country through health". From September 2008, the work of "building a strong country" in education was launched in an all-round way. It took only two years, from 20 10 to 12, and it was successfully established as "a strong county in education in Guangdong Province".

Policy guidance, clear objectives, and create an atmosphere of attaching importance to education.

In order to truly implement the work of "creating a strong country", in addition to the attention and research guidance of leaders, it is necessary to have a clear and specific guidance plan. The Meizhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government successively issued the Decision of Meizhou Municipal Party Committee and Meizhou Municipal People's Government on Building a Strong City through Education in Guangdong Province, the Implementation Plan for Building a Strong City through Education in Guangdong Province, the Commendation and Reward Plan for Building a Strong City through Education in Guangdong Province, and the Notice on Reducing and Exempting Various Fees for School Construction during the Period of Building a Strong City through Education in Guangdong Province, etc., which clarified the objectives and tasks and put forward specific measures for smoothly promoting the construction of a strong city through education in Guangdong Province.

On the basis of fully studying and understanding the relevant documents issued by the city and combining with their own situation, all districts and counties put forward specific and feasible guiding requirements and implementation plans for "creating strength". Among them, Fengshun County put education on the important agenda of the county party committee and government, and incorporated education development into the overall plan of the county's economic and social development. It formulated and issued two programmatic documents, namely, the Decision of Fengshun County to Establish a Strong Education County in Guangdong Province and the Implementation Plan of Fengshun County to Establish a Strong Education County in Guangdong Province, which promoted the education development in an orderly manner in time and space and improved the foresight of education development. The county government takes the creation of a strong county through education as its key task, writes it into the government work report, defines the objectives and implements the promotion measures.

In addition, in order to create a good atmosphere of "everyone knows how to be strong and everyone is strong", Meizhou also takes publicity as a key task, and makes full use of various effective carriers and media such as slogans, banners, cable TV, internet, bulletin boards and blackboard newspapers to expand publicity in a multi-pronged manner, thus forming a good atmosphere for fully promoting the education of "creating strength". Through a variety of operational guidance programs and rich publicity measures, Meizhou has formed a good social atmosphere of "the party attaches importance to education first, the government takes the promotion of education as its own responsibility, teachers are proud of teaching, and the people take teaching as their pleasure".

Carry out responsibilities, and all levels and departments will form an overall synergy.

It is true that if the work of "strengthening the city through education" is measured by speed, Meizhou has started the work of strengthening the city through education for five years, which is not excellent compared with the economically developed areas in the province. However, as Luo, director of the Education Bureau of Meizhou City, said, "Grasping education in Meizhou is not a performance project", and it does not seek "quick success and instant benefit", but puts the work in place so that education can really benefit the masses. Looking back on the gratifying changes brought about by the "creating strength" of school education in various districts and counties in Meizhou in recent years, we can find that these five years are very substantial and meaningful, and leaders at all levels and departments have carried out their duties and put the "creating strength" work in place.

According to Luo, the first experience of Meizhou is to rely on the organizational strength of the party, led by party committees at all levels, and led by party Committee secretaries at all levels and leaders of various departments. From the city level, county level to the town level and village level, relevant teams are leading the work of "creating strength" in education. "The top leaders are responsible for taking the lead in creating strength, and they will go up when they are done, and stay and continue to do what they have not finished." The leading group for Fengshun County to establish a strong education county in Guangdong Province is headed by the county party secretary, the county magistrate is the executive deputy head, the leaders in charge of education, the education director and the finance director are the deputy heads, and the main leaders of the county party committee, government and relevant units directly under the municipal government are members. The county party committee and government specially arranged four county leaders to serve as the heads of the supervision group of the education-strong town, taking the lead in supervising and taking charge of all districts, and regularly or irregularly going deep into towns and primary and secondary schools to supervise the work of "building a education-strong town". In Meixian County, the county magistrate signed a "military order" with the mayors (directors) of various towns (offices and senior management meetings) and signed a "responsibility letter for strengthening the town through education", which clarified the responsibilities and tasks of the county and town governments in creating a strong town through education.

The second experience is to fully coordinate various functional departments and form a joint force. The establishment of a strong education county can not be separated from the cooperation of various functional departments. Under the unified leadership of the county party committee and the county government, Fengshun Education Bureau, together with the departments of finance, development and reform, housing and construction, land, health, fire protection, etc., will carry out their respective duties and cooperate with each other to give a green light to the work of "building an educational power". On the premise of complying with laws and regulations, simplify procedures, improve efficiency, provide quality services for the construction of towns, and form a good situation of going hand in hand.

The third experience is that "Chuangqiang" personnel go deep into the front line to implement the work. The leading group of Meixian Education Bureau has a clear responsibility and a clear division of labor, and often goes deep into Chuangqiang Town to guide and supervise the school construction, field room planning, equipment and facilities configuration and campus culture construction in the whole process and in all directions. Every functional office of the Education Bureau has a responsibility, and everyone has a responsibility. The county's "office of creating strength" has also established a system of cadres' work in towns, and implemented the "responsibility system" for "creating strength" in towns. The "Chuangqiang Office" has done a lot of solid and effective work for the first-line "Chuangqiang Office", and regularly organized personnel to carry out periodic inspections on the work of Chuangqiang Town, forming a working mechanism for Chuangqiang Town and Baodian cadres to learn from each other and learn from each other's strengths, thus ensuring the smooth progress of the work of "Chuangqiang" in each town.

The second dragon: strong input, unity is strength.

"The best building in the town is the school, and the best environment is the campus."

In the 12th Five-Year Development Plan, Meizhou regards education as an important content. In addition to the policy documents such as the Decision on Strengthening the City through Education, the Implementation Plan, the Recognition and Reward Plan, and the Decision on Accelerating the Reform and Development of Education, Meizhou has also established a guarantee mechanism for compulsory education funds to ensure that the public funds in the per capita budget increase year by year, and the education funds in the per capita budget increase year by year, and the growth of education financial allocation is higher than the growth of financial recurrent revenue. All these should be realized in underdeveloped areas with tight fiscal revenue. So, how did Meizhou solve this problem? What changes have the inclination of resources brought to Meizhou education?

Every little makes a mickle.

Based on the understanding that education should give priority to development, in 2008, Meizhou took the lead in systematically proposing to promote the city as a whole, carry forward the tradition of respecting teachers and attaching importance to education, and give full play to the power of the city. Over the past five years, more than 4 billion yuan has been invested to build a strong city of education. Among them, Meizhou Municipal Government * * * allocated 65.438+0.05 billion yuan of special funds at the same level to reward counties (cities, districts) and towns (streets) that passed the acceptance of "creating strength", which effectively stimulated the enthusiasm of all levels and departments to "create strength"; At the same time, the work of "creating strength" has also received attention, understanding and support from all walks of life. The city has received "Chuangqiang" funds of 654.38+50.4 million yuan, accounting for 40% of the city's "Chuangqiang" funds.

According to Li, vice mayor of Meizhou City, there are two main sources of funds for the city's "Chuangqiang": one is financial allocations from governments at all levels, and the other is donations from all walks of life. In order to ensure the capital investment in education construction, Fengshun County has clearly implemented the fund-raising tasks at all levels-the county government undertakes 50%, the township government undertakes 40%, and the school undertakes 10%, basically forming a diversified fund-raising mechanism of "squeeze a little, the masses raise a little, fellow villagers help a little, and overseas Chinese donate a little". In the past five years, the county * * * has raised 352 million yuan of "Chuangqiang" funds, including 227 million yuan of financial investment and 65.438+0.25 billion yuan of donations from all walks of life, laying a good foundation for establishing a strong education county. Meixian, the hometown of overseas Chinese, also invested 430 million yuan in Chuangqiang from 2008 to 20 1 1 through diversified financing channels with government investment as the main body and donations from all walks of life. While actively mobilizing donations from overseas Chinese, the "Three Gorges" and social elites, Meixian Finance has given priority to ensuring investment in education, and all towns and villages have reduced various expenditures, slowed down the construction of other projects, and tried their best to use the limited funds at the township level for school construction.

The attention and investment of the party and government at all levels in Meizhou ensured the smooth development of the work of "building a strong country", and the support of the masses for education also provided a strong impetus for "building a strong country". In the process of fund-raising, the enthusiasm of all walks of life to support the work of "building a strong country through health care" is high, and they have generously donated money to support students, and many touching stories have emerged: Fengshun Zhu family invested/kloc-0.0 million yuan to build Liuxiang Central Primary School, and the Zhu family was responsible for site selection, design, construction and capital investment. After the school was completed, it was unconditionally handed over to the government, and Zhujia invested more than 300 yuan every year. Mr. Feng Xiaohua donated150,000 yuan and Mr. Weilong Tan donated 2 million yuan to recruit "21kloc-0/engineering" undergraduates and master students for Fengshun Middle School, enrich the teaching staff and set up teaching scholarships. Mr. Zhang Jianli of xingning city donated 2010.5 million yuan to build a new campus of Yonghe Middle School, which changed the backward face of hometown education; Mr. Chen, an old folk Chinese doctor who is nearly seventy years old, sent ten Yu Ben passbooks to Chuangqiang personnel by bike, donated his hard-earned savings of 1 10,000 yuan to xingning city Fuxing Middle School in the name of his parents, and set up the "Qin Wengui Qing Scholarship Fund". ...

In this regard, Lai Houfang, deputy director of Meizhou Education Bureau, who often goes deep into the front line of counties and towns to guide the work of "creating strength", deeply feels that "creating strength through education" is a real popular project. Only by running education can we have such a great appeal and cohesion, and we can get extensive support and resources from the party, the government and the masses. Other projects are impossible. "

Resources tilt towards students.

In terms of investment in education, Meizhou city is full of cohesion. Every penny of Chuangqiang bears the ardent desire of overseas Chinese, the "three-person group", social elites and the masses to improve mountain education and give children a good learning environment. There is a lot of pressure on the creative personnel at all levels in Meizhou, and the use of funds can be described as cautious. Although the investment in education can not be immediate, we can clearly feel the changes brought by the work of "creating strength" to Meizhou education, and the support of the masses for education can already see results.

Before visiting township schools, the staff of Meizhou Chuangqiang Office proudly told reporters many times: "The best building in the town is the school, and the best environment is the campus." At that time, the reporter just laughed and said nothing. After visiting Baxiangshan School in Fengshun County, the reporter had to agree with this sentence-along the mountain road, we can see houses scattered in the mountains, and we finally came to the only large flat land. Several buildings standing inside are Baxiangshan School, and the humble building next to it is the town government. Baxiangshan Town is a typical mountain town with weak economic foundation. The party committee and government of the town fully realized that "creating a strong country first" is a popular project that benefits the villagers, and established a strong education town three years ahead of schedule, making this old revolutionary base town with a population of only over 10,000 the third strong education town in Fengshun. Similar situations have occurred in other towns. Therefore, in the process of acceptance, the provincial education strong town supervision and acceptance team often finds a phenomenon: the office building of the town government is very shabby, but the school is the most beautiful building in the town.

In addition to rebuilding schools in mountainous areas, Meizhou has also optimized resources in various forms, and the conditions for running schools have been significantly improved: do a good job in the construction of school safety projects, and by the end of 2011July, all the D-level dangerous buildings in primary and secondary schools in the city will stop being demolished; Promote the adjustment of the layout of compulsory education schools. In recent years, * * * merged 262 primary and secondary schools, and 684 standardized schools passed the acceptance, accounting for 7 1.7% of the schools in the compulsory education stage in the city, ranking among the best in the mountainous cities in the province; We will promote the work of provincial education and people's livelihood construction projects such as compulsory education standardized schools, township central kindergartens and village-level kindergartens, and the completion rate of various construction projects will reach 100%. According to incomplete statistics, since 2008, Meizhou * * has added a campus area of 6,543,800 square meters, a building area of 860,000 square meters, 30,600 computers, 365,438 audio-visual platforms, 465,438 books+065,000 books and 65,000 teaching instruments. Especially in towns that have completed the task of "building a strong town", all schools above primary school have built standardized schools, showing the bright spot of "new school buildings, complete equipment and high standards".

The third dragon: strong and fair, harmonious and beautiful.

"Chuangqiang is not to let your children have no books to read, but to let them come to a better school."

"The balanced development of education must first ensure equal educational opportunities, make overall plans and tilt towards the countryside, and gradually eliminate the gap between urban and rural areas."

Education is related to the "three people"-people's livelihood demands, national quality and national future. Meizhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government regard the balanced development and fairness of education as one of the basic projects to build a harmonious Meizhou. Scientific layout, careful planning, and taking urban-rural integration, preschool education and high school education as important considerations for the balanced development of education undoubtedly have the courage to shoulder heavy burdens and the wisdom to solve problems. At present and in the future, Meizhou will focus on the goal of strong quality and balanced development, based on the establishment of a reasonable allocation system of public education resources, focusing on continuously improving the running conditions and management level of rural schools and weak schools in cities and towns, accelerate the pace of balanced development of education, and strive to promote educational equity.

Resource integration, urban and rural education integration

As the saying goes, tall buildings rise from the ground. Architecture is like this, so is education. To lay a solid foundation for education, we must first rationally arrange and allocate educational resources, strive to narrow the development gap between urban and rural areas, regions and schools, ensure the fair development of regional education, and realize the overall balance of education. In addition, we will intensify the adjustment of the layout structure of primary and secondary schools, and build, expand, relocate and transform a number of schools. Implement the construction project of thousands of standardized schools and initially realize the integration of urban and rural education. In 2008, Meizhou vigorously implemented the construction project of thousands of standardized schools. By 2065,438+02, there were 68 standardized schools1school, accounting for 7 1.38%, among which Meijiang District, Meixian County, Jiaoling County and Pingyuan County achieved full coverage of standardized schools. In the implementation of standardized school construction project, Meizhou adhered to the principle of "practical hardware and strict software" and made solid progress to realize "strong town without weak school". In terms of hardware construction, many schools not only paid off the historical "old debts" of school construction, but also made the school hardware develop moderately ahead of schedule.

The gap between urban and rural education is the concentrated expression of current educational unfairness. Rural schools are generally facing the problem of "scattered, small and biased", and there is a big gap between them and urban schools in terms of school conditions and teachers' level. Therefore, according to the principle of "three concentrations", Meizhou has adjusted the layout of rural schools according to local conditions, concentrated junior high schools in central towns, concentrated complete primary schools in central villages, concentrated new teaching resources in suburbs, and scientifically allocated educational resources. Through the implementation of this project, the total number of rural schools in the city has decreased by 845, including 36 junior high schools and 809 primary schools. Through resource integration, a number of rural schools with certain scale and educational strength have been formed. 20 1 1 year, the average size of schools in the city is: primary school with 243 students/school, junior high school with 0/386 students/school, further narrowing the gap between urban and rural schools. Adapt to the new situation of in-depth development of urbanization and construction of new socialist countryside, make overall consideration of urban and rural population mobility and school-age population changes, fully combine the age characteristics and growth laws of students, adhere to the principle of "overall planning, rational layout, building first and retreating, promoting by classification, and satisfying the masses", and achieve "four do not withdraw": the planning scheme is unreasonable, the operating procedures are not standardized, the safeguard measures are not in place, and the ideological work of the masses is not withdrawn. Schools should be built in places where teachers like to teach and children like to study, and efforts should be made to find the best balance between "being eager to learn" and "being eager to learn" in the adjustment of the layout of rural compulsory education, so that this work can be promoted steadily and orderly.

Luo told reporters that Meizhou people have always had the complex of "no matter how poor they are, they can't be poor in education or suffer from children". In order to enable every student to enjoy high-quality educational resources, they have adopted "strive for more, squeeze more money, help the countryside, and contribute a little to the school", and raised development funds in various ways to greatly improve the conditions for running schools. Combined with the "school safety" project, focusing on the renovation and layout adjustment of dangerous houses, all D-class dangerous houses will be demolished, the living facilities of teachers and students will be greatly improved, and a large number of boarding schools will be added. Actively take measures such as extending bus lines, opening "two fixed (fixed-point) rural buses", free bus rides for primary and secondary school students in urban areas, subsidizing living expenses, building low-rent housing in villages and towns, and implementing the policy of "two exemptions and one subsidy" (free of miscellaneous fees, free of book fees and subsidizing living expenses for boarders) to solve the practical problems of students going to school after layout adjustment, and actively and steadily promote layout adjustment, so as to make the allocation of rural educational resources more reasonable and run rural primary and secondary schools well.