Recently, the Conference on the Inheritance and Education of Excellent Chinese Language and Culture was held in Henan Province. Ren Youqun, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education, attended and addressed the conference. Song Zhenghui, Vice Governor and Member of the Party Leadership Group of the Henan Provincial Government, also participated in the event.
The conference pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, language and character work has been fully integrated into the overall development of national education and the construction of a strong education country, achieving remarkable results. Policies for the inheritance and education of excellent Chinese language and culture have been continuously improved, practices have been deepened, and effectiveness has been rapidly enhanced, yielding a series of important outcomes.
The conference emphasized the need to fulfill the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, adhere to the value guidance of cultivating people with culture, strengthen the educational function of language, implement the national language and culture inheritance and development project series, produce more landmark achievements, integrate these efforts into education at all levels and types, and support the establishment of a new framework for fostering virtue through education. It also called for efforts to build a system for the inheritance and education of excellent Chinese language and culture, improve mechanisms for enhancing the public’s language and cultural literacy, and ensure effective progress in the inheritance, development, educational popularization, promotion, and resource development of excellent Chinese language and culture. Additionally, it urged advancing high-quality development of language and character education, high-level construction of the national language service system, and high-start enhancement of national language capabilities during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
The Education Department of Henan Province, the Education Department of Hunan Province, the Education Bureau of Weixian County (Xingtai City), as well as institutions including Nanjing University, Communication University of China, and Anyang Normal University, along with representatives of young teachers, delivered exchange speeches.Also in attendance were responsible comrades from relevant member units of the National Language Working Committee, education administrative departments at the provincial level, and relevant departments and directly affiliated units of the Ministry of Education.