Speech by the Teacher Representative of Educational Innovation

To strengthen a country, we must first strengthen education, and to prosper Guangdong, we must first develop education; if education flourishes, all industries will prosper, and if education is strong, there will be sufficient stamina. In recent years, the Meizhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have planned the development of education with a forward-looking vision, promoted the reform of education with great efforts and boldness, and explored a new development path that uses education to support the green rise of the region and promote industrial transformation and upgrading. In 2008, Meizhou City put forward the development goal of creating an “education-strong city” and invested more than 4 billion yuan to successfully create 6 education-strong counties (cities, districts) and 85 education-strong towns (subdistricts), becoming the province’s most powerful education city. During the same period, the mountainous city that passed the most acceptances and promoted the fastest "Education to Strengthen Counties and Towns" has effectively guaranteed educational equity, and people's satisfaction with education has increased significantly, becoming a new highlight in Meizhou's green rise strategy. < /p>

A century-old plan is based on education. Since this sentence was proposed in the 1980s, it has been treated as a distinguished guest in the campus window, making people in the education field feel that they have a heavy responsibility and dare not relax. However, compared with other industries, education undoubtedly does not have an advantage in the hands of regional leaders: the investment is large, the cycle is long, and the results are slow. Therefore, some regional leaders often only attach importance to education in various official documents. To truly implement it, I am afraid that they must first develop the economy. In underdeveloped areas where fiscal revenue is embarrassing, the task of educating and strengthening is even more arduous.

Meizhou is the most populous mountainous city in the province. It is an underdeveloped area that started late, but education is really valued here. In recent years, in the process of implementing the strategy of "making every effort to accelerate the rise of a green economy and building a prosperous, beautiful and happy Meizhou", the Meizhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have deeply realized that in order to make a difference in the new round of development competition, they must give full play to the emphasis on culture and education. With the advantage of being a latecomer, we insist on putting education in a priority position of development, and provide intellectual support and talent guarantee for Meizhou to achieve "green rise" by giving full play to the functional role of education.

The party and government take the lead, and leaders lead the team to promote education to "create strength"

Whether it is in a government agency or an enterprise, if you want to do something well, a key factor is to get leadership Valued and supported. In order to implement the work of "creating a strong education", Meizhou City has established a "creating a strong" work leading group composed of the main leaders of the municipal party committee, the municipal government and the heads of relevant departments, and established an office to create a strong city in education. Meizhou Municipal Party Committee Secretary Zhu Zejun, Mayor Tan Juntie, Vice Mayor Li Yuanqing and other leaders have visited "Chuangqiang" counties (cities, districts) for many times to conduct research and conduct in-depth school guidance work. Led by the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and actively participated by heads of various departments, Meizhou City’s education “creation strength” work has achieved remarkable results: since the launch of “Creation Strength” in 2008, 6 educationally strong counties (cities, districts) have been successfully created , 85 educationally strong towns (subdistricts), becoming the mountainous city with the most acceptance and the fastest advancement of "Educational Strong Counties and Towns" in the province during the same period, taking the lead in exploring a path for mountainous cities to promote the leap-forward development of education.

With the leadership of the municipal party committee and municipal government, in all districts and counties of Meizhou City, the work of "creating strength" in education has also been highly valued. Taking Mei County, Ye Shuai's hometown, as an example, at the county's mobilization meeting to create a strong education county in Guangdong Province, the county party secretary asked all towns (offices, executive committees) to aim at "providing education that satisfies the people" and overcome all difficulties. Ensure that the tasks of creating strength are 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 efforts of each town in terms of policies and funds. The main leaders of the county attach great importance to the work of "creating strength". The then county party secretary Li Yuanqing and the then county magistrate Zhang Wenguang personally mobilized, deployed and supervised the work of "creating strength". They often went to the town of "chuangqiang" to supervise inspections, work on-site, and coordinate solutions Difficulties and problems encountered in the process of "creating strength" work and school construction; the County People's Congress and the County CPPCC have organized special surveys many times to provide decision-making basis for solving hot and difficult issues in the "creation strength" work; those in charge of the work of "creating strength" Liu Xinsheng, secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the County People's Congress and executive deputy director, and Li Danling, deputy county magistrate in charge of education, often go to various towns and schools to investigate and supervise the "strengthening" work.

With the attention and support of the county party committee and the county government, the towns in Meixian County have created a strong atmosphere of "creating strength". From September 2008, they comprehensively launched the work of "creating strength" in education. In just two years, by 2010 In December, it was successfully established as a "Strong Education County in Guangdong Province". By the end of 2011, all 20 town-level units had passed the supervision and acceptance of the "Strong Education Town in Guangdong Province", achieving full coverage of "creating strength" in all towns and villages in the county.

Policy guidance, clear goals to create an atmosphere that emphasizes education

To truly implement the work of "creating strength", in addition to the leadership's attention and research guidance, a clear and specific guidance plan is also needed. The Meizhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government have successively issued the "Decision of the Meizhou Municipal Party Committee and the Meizhou Municipal People's Government on Creating a Strong Educational City in Guangdong Province", "Meizhou City's Implementation Plan for Creating a Strong Educational City in Guangdong Province", "Meizhou City Creating a Strong Educational City in Guangdong Province" Documents such as the Commendation and Reward Plan for a Strong Education City in Guangdong Province and the Notice on the Reduction and Exemption of Various School Construction Fees during the Creation of a Strong Education City in Guangdong Province clarify the goals and tasks and propose specific measures to smoothly promote the work of creating a strong education city in Guangdong Province. .

On the basis of fully studying and understanding the relevant documents issued by the city, each district and county has proposed specific "strengthening" work requirements and implementation plans with practical guiding significance based on their own conditions. Among them, Fengshun County has put education on the important agenda of the county party committee and county government, integrated the development of education into the overall plan of the county's economic and social development, and formulated and issued the "Fengshun County Decision to Create a Strong County in Education in Guangdong Province" and The two programmatic documents "Implementation Plan for Fengshun County to Create a Strong County in Education in Guangdong Province" have made the development of education orderly in time and space in time, and improved the forward-looking development of education. The county government has included the establishment of a provincial education-rich county as a key task in the government work report, clarifying the goals and implementing promotion measures.

In addition, in order to create a good atmosphere in which "everyone knows and creates strength, everyone creates strength", Meizhou City also regards publicity work as a key task, making full use of slogans, banners, cable TV, and the Internet. , bulletin boards, blackboard newspapers and other effective carriers and media, take a multi-pronged approach to expand publicity and create a good atmosphere for fully promoting the work of "creating strength" in education. Through a variety of highly operable guidance plans and rich and well-implemented publicity measures, the whole city of Meizhou has formed a concept of "the party puts emphasis on education first, the government takes the responsibility of promoting education, teachers take pride in teaching, and the people take pleasure in supporting education" Good social atmosphere.

Implementing responsibilities, all levels and departments form an overall synergy

It is true that if the work of "creating strength" in education is measured by speed, Meizhou City has already fully launched the work of building strength in education. It has taken five years, but this speed is not outstanding compared with the economically developed areas in the province. But as Luo Jiawen, director of the Meizhou Municipal Education Bureau, said, "Education in Meizhou City is not a performance project." We do not seek "quick success" but to implement the work in place so that education can truly benefit the people. Looking back at the gratifying changes brought about by the "creation of strength" in education in various districts and counties in Meizhou City in recent years, we can find that the past five years have been very fulfilling and meaningful. Leaders and departments at all levels have performed their respective responsibilities and put the work of "creating strength" into practice. Put it in place.

As for "implementation in place", according to Luo Jiawen, Meizhou City's first experience is to rely on the party's organizational strength, led by party committees at all levels, led by party committee secretaries at all levels and departments, and from the city There are relevant teams at the level, county level, town level, and village level to lead the work of "creating strength" in education. "The top leader is responsible for taking the lead in creating strength. If you have done it well, you will go up. If you have not completed it, you will stay and continue to work." The leading group for the establishment of Fengshun County in Guangdong Province to strengthen education in the county is headed by the secretary of the county party committee, the county magistrate as the executive deputy leader, the leader in charge of education, the director of education, and the director of finance as deputy leaders, and the town party committees, governments and The main person in charge of the relevant units under the county government is composed of members. The county party committee and the county government specially arranged four county leaders to serve as the leaders of the inspection team of the educationally strong towns. They will take the lead in supervision and take responsibility for each area. They will go to each town and primary and secondary school regularly or irregularly to supervise the "creating strong" education work. In Meixian County, the county magistrate and the mayors (directors) of each town (office, executive committee) issued a "military order" and signed the "Responsibility Letter for Creating a Strong Educational Town", which clarified the roles of the county and town governments. Responsibilities and tasks in the work of creating strength.

The second experience is to fully coordinate various functional departments to form a synergy. Creating a strong county with education is inseparable from the full cooperation of all functional departments. Under the unified leadership of the county party committee and the county government, the Fengshun County Education Bureau performs its duties with the finance, development and reform, housing and construction, land, health, fire protection and other departments. , cooperate with each other, and give the green light to the work of "creating strength" in education on a special basis.

On the premise of complying with laws and regulations, we will simplify service procedures, improve service efficiency, provide high-quality services for the establishment of various towns, and form a good situation of progressing hand in hand.

The third experience is that "Chuangqiang" personnel go deep into the front line to implement the work. The leadership team of the Meixian Education Bureau has clear responsibilities and division of labor. It often goes deep into the "Chuangqiang" town to provide full-process and all-round guidance and supervision on school construction, room planning, equipment and facilities configuration, and campus culture construction. Each functional unit of the Education Bureau “has its own responsibilities, and everyone has a responsibility.” The county’s “Strengthening and Strengthening Office” has also established a work system for cadres to stay in “townships” to implement a “bundle responsibility system” for the “strengthening” work of each town. ". The "Strengthening and Strengthening Office" has done a lot of solid and effective work on the front line for each town to "create and strengthen", and regularly organizes personnel to conduct periodic inspections of the work of each "creating and strengthening" town, forming a network between "creating and strengthening" towns. The working mechanism of "packaging point" cadres to learn from each other and draw on each other's strengths ensures the smooth progress of the "strength creation" work of each town.

Second Weilong: Strong investment, united efforts show solidity

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

In the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" development plan, Meizhou City regards education as an important content. In addition to successively issuing policy documents such as decisions, implementation plans, commendation and reward plans for creating a strong education city, and decisions on accelerating educational reform and development, it has also specially established We have established a compulsory education funding guarantee mechanism to ensure that public funds within the budget per student increase year by year, education funding within the budget per student increases year by year, and the growth in education financial allocations is higher than the growth in regular fiscal revenue - this must be done in underdeveloped areas where fiscal revenue is stretched. Achieving these "growths" is difficult as you can imagine. So, how did Meizhou solve this problem? What changes has the tilt of resources brought to Meizhou education?

Gathering resources together to run education

Based on the concept of insisting on putting education as a priority for development, in 2008, Meizhou took the lead among mountainous cities in the province to systematically propose We have promoted the work of creating a strong city as a whole, carried forward the tradition of advocating culture and valuing education, and mobilized the whole city to invest more than 4 billion yuan in the past five years to create a strong city in education. Among them, the Meizhou Municipal Government has allocated a special fund of 105 million yuan from the same level of finance to reward counties (cities, districts) and towns (streets) that have passed the "Innovation and Strengthening" inspection and acceptance, which has effectively stimulated the "innovation and innovation" of departments at all levels. At the same time, the "Strengthening" work has also received concern, understanding and support from all walks of life. The city has received a total of 1.504 billion yuan in "Strengthening" donations, accounting for 40% of the city's "Strengthening" funds.

According to Li Yuanqing, deputy mayor of Meizhou City, there are two main sources of funds for the city’s “strength creation”: first, financial allocations from governments at all levels, and second, donations from all walks of life. In order to ensure capital investment in education construction, Fengshun County has clearly implemented the financing tasks at all levels - the county government is responsible for 50%, the town-level government is responsible for 40%, and the school is responsible for 10%. It has basically formed a "financial squeeze, mass financing" A diversified financing mechanism of "community virtuous people help a little, and overseas Chinese donate a little." In the past five years, the county has raised 352 million yuan in "building strength" funds, including 227 million yuan in fiscal investment and 125 million yuan in donations from all walks of life, laying a good foundation for building a strong county in education. Meixian, the "hometown of overseas Chinese", has also invested a total of 430 million yuan in "creation" funds from 2008 to 2011 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, "three compatriots" and social elites, Meixian County's finances gave priority to ensuring investment in education funds. All towns and villages reduced all expenditures, slowed down the construction of other projects, and tried their best to use limited town-level funds for school construction. .

Meizhou City’s parties and governments at all levels attach great importance to and invest in education to ensure the smooth development of the work of “creating strength”, and the public’s support for education also provides a strong driving force for “creating strength”.

During the fund-raising process, all sectors of society became enthusiastic about supporting the work of "creating strength" and donated generously to support education. Many touching stories emerged: the Fengshun Zhu family invested more than 10 million yuan to build the Liuhuang Central Primary School. The site selection, design, construction, and capital investment were all handled by the Zhu family. After the school was completed, it was handed over to the government unconditionally. The Zhu family invested more than 3 million yuan every year to help poor students complete their studies; Mr. Feng Xiaohua donated 15 million yuan, and Mr. Tan Weilong Donated 2 million yuan to recruit "211 Project" university normal undergraduate graduates and master's students to Fengshun Middle School to enrich the teaching team, and set up teaching scholarships; Mr. Zhang Jianli of Xingning City donated more than 21.5 million yuan to build the new campus of Yonghe Middle School. To change the backwardness of education in his hometown; Mr. Chen Shengzheng, an old folk doctor who is nearly 70 years old, rode his bicycle and delivered more than ten bankbooks to the "Chuangqiang" personnel, and donated 1 million yuan of his hard-earned savings over the years to Xingqiang in the name of his parents. Fuxing Middle School in Ning City established the "Wen Qin Guiqing Teaching Scholarship Fund"...

In this regard, Lai Houfang, deputy director of the Meizhou Municipal Education Bureau, who often goes to the front lines of counties and towns to guide "creating strength" work I have deep feelings: "Education to 'create strength' is a real public support project. Only education can have such great appeal and cohesion, and receive broad support and resource investment from the party and government, and the masses. No other project is possible."< /p>

Resources are tilted to benefit students

In terms of investment in education, the whole city of Meizhou is united. Every penny of the "Chuangqiang" funds carries the ardent wish of overseas Chinese, "three compatriots", social elites and the general public to improve education in mountainous areas and provide children with a good learning environment. "Chuangqiang" personnel at all levels in Meizhou are under great pressure. The use of funds can be described as prudent. Although the investment in education does not have immediate results, visits to various schools have clearly felt the changes brought about by the "creation and strength" work in Meizhou City's education, and the public's support for education can already see results.

Before visiting the township schools, the staff of Meizhou City's "Enhancing Innovation 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 Without saying a word. After visiting Baxiangshan School in Fengshun County, the reporter had to agree with this statement - walking up the mountain road, you can see houses scattered in the mountains and forests. After finally arriving at the only large piece of flat land, several of them stood there. The building above is the Patxiang Mountain School, and the inconspicuous building next to it is the town government. Baxiang Mountain Town is a typical mountain town with a weak economic foundation. The town party committee and government fully realized that "creating strength" is a popular project that benefits the villagers, and established a strong educational town three years ahead of schedule, making this small town in an old revolutionary base area with a population of more than 10,000 the third educational stronghold in Fengshun. town. Similar situations occurred in other towns. Therefore, during the inspection and acceptance process, the Provincial Education Strong Town Supervision and Acceptance Team often discovers a phenomenon: the town government office building is very dilapidated, but the schools are the most beautiful buildings in the town.

In addition to rebuilding schools in mountainous areas, Meizhou City has also optimized resources in various ways to significantly improve school running conditions: it has focused on the construction of school building safety projects. By the end of July 2011, all D-level dangerous buildings in primary and secondary schools in the city have been closed. Use and dismantle; promote the layout adjustment of compulsory education schools. In recent years, 262 primary and secondary schools have been merged and merged, and 684 standardized schools have passed the acceptance inspection, accounting for 71.7% of the city’s schools in the compulsory education stage, ranking at the forefront of mountainous cities in the province; promote compulsory education Provincial-level education and people's livelihood practical construction projects such as education standardization schools, township central kindergartens, and village-level kindergartens have a completion rate of 100%. According to incomplete statistics, since 2008, Meizhou City *** has added 1.29 million square meters of campus area, 860,000 square meters of new building area, purchased 30,600 new computers, 3,116 audio-visual education platforms, and added 4.165 million new books. , newly purchased teaching equipment worth 137 million yuan. Especially in towns that have completed the task of "creating strength", all schools above primary school have been built into standardized schools, showing the highlights of "new school buildings, complete equipment and high standards".

Third Weilong: Strength is fair, harmonious development brings harmony and beauty

“Creating strength is not about letting your children have no books to study, but letting them go to better schools.”

“The balanced development of education must first ensure equal access to education, and must make overall plans and focus on rural areas to gradually eliminate the gap between urban and rural areas.”

Education is related to the “three people” – people’s livelihood demands, The quality of the people and the future of the nation.

The Meizhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government regard the balanced development of education and educational equity as one of the basic projects to build a harmonious Meizhou. They have scientific layout and careful planning, and regard urban-rural integration, preschool education, and high school education as important considerations for the balanced development of education. This is undoubtedly He has the courage to take on important responsibilities and the wisdom to solve problems. At present and in the future, Meizhou will focus on the goal of quality and balanced development, based on the establishment of a rational allocation system of public education resources, and on the continuous improvement of the conditions for running rural schools and weak urban schools and the improvement of management. Focus on education level, 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. This is true for architecture, and so is education. To consolidate the foundation of education, we must first rationally arrange and balance education resources, strive to narrow the development gap between urban and rural areas, between regions, and between schools, ensure the fair development of regional education, and achieve an overall balance in education. In addition, we will intensify efforts to adjust the layout and structure of primary and secondary schools, and build, expand, relocate and renovate 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 City vigorously implemented the construction project of 1,000 standardized schools. By 2012, there were 681 standardized schools, accounting for 71.38%. Among them, 4 districts and counties including Meijiang District, Meixian, Jiaoling County, and Pingyuan County had achieved Full coverage of standardized schools. In the implementation of the standardized school construction project, Meizhou City adheres to the principle of "hardware is pragmatic and software is strict" and advances in a down-to-earth manner, achieving the goal of "strong towns without weak schools". In terms of hardware construction, many schools have not only paid off the historical "old debts" of school construction, but also achieved moderate advanced development of school hardware.

The gap between urban and rural education is a concentrated reflection of the current educational inequality. Rural schools generally face the problem of being "scattered, small, and partial", which is significantly different from urban schools in terms of school running conditions and teacher quality. gap. To this end, Meizhou City adjusted measures to local conditions, combined with actual conditions, and adjusted the layout of rural schools in accordance with the "three concentrations" principle, concentrating junior high schools in central towns, concentrating complete primary schools in central villages, and concentrating new teaching resources in urban and suburban areas, allocating them scientifically Educational resources. Through the implementation of this project, the total number of rural schools in the city has been reduced by 845, including 36 junior high schools and 809 primary schools. A number of rural schools with a certain scale and educational strength have been formed through resource integration. In 2011, the city's average school size was: 243 students per primary school and 1,386 students per junior high school. The gap between urban and rural schools has further narrowed. In order to adapt to the new situation of the in-depth development of urbanization and the construction of a new socialist countryside, overall consideration should be given to urban and rural population mobility and changes in the school-age population, and fully combined with the age characteristics and growth patterns of students, adhering to "overall planning, rational layout, construction first, removal later, classification We must adhere to the principle of "advancing and satisfying the masses" and achieve "four no-withdraws": no withdrawal if the planning plan is unreasonable, no withdrawal if the operating procedures are not standardized, no withdrawal if the safeguard measures are not in place, and no withdrawal if the ideological work of the masses is not done well. We should build schools in places where teachers like to teach and children like to read, and strive to find the best balance between "good schooling" and "good education" in adjusting the layout of rural compulsory education, so that this work can be advanced steadily and orderly.

Luo Jiawen told reporters that Meizhou people have always had the sentiment that "no matter how poor they are, they cannot afford education, and no matter how miserable they are, they cannot afford to suffer for their children." In order to allow every student to enjoy high-quality educational resources, they adopted the method of "fighting for higher education, squeezing finances, helping rural sages, and schools pooling together" to raise development funds through multiple channels and vigorously improve school running conditions. In conjunction with the "school safety" project, focusing on the renovation and layout adjustment of dangerous buildings, all D-level dangerous buildings will be demolished, the living facilities for teachers and students will be greatly improved, and a large number of boarding schools will be added. Active measures have been taken to extend bus lines, open "two fixed (fixed-time) rural buses", provide free bus rides for urban primary and secondary school students, subsidize living expenses, build low-rent housing in townships, and implement "two exemptions and one subsidy" (free miscellaneous fees and free book fees). , subsidies for boarding students’ living expenses) policies and other methods to solve the practical problems of students attending school after the layout adjustment, and actively and steadily promote the layout adjustment, so as to make the allocation of rural education resources more reasonable and lay a solid foundation for the improvement of the education level of rural primary and secondary schools.