Strengthen infrastructure construction and invest 4.9 billion yuan to build, renovate and expand 1,653 compulsory education schools in poor areas; leverage the advantages of vocational education in poverty alleviation, let children from poor families learn a skill, lift one household out of poverty, and drive one party...
“To combat poverty, we must first cure stupidity, and to alleviate poverty, we must first support intelligence. Hebei Province has many contiguous poverty-stricken areas, and the task of poverty alleviation is heavy. Doing a solid job in poverty alleviation through education is not only our ‘breakthrough project’, but also a political task that must be completed. mission." said Yang Yong, Director of the Hebei Provincial Department of Education. In recent years, the Hebei Provincial Department of Education has always included poverty alleviation through education as an important part of its work. It has taken poverty alleviation through education into consideration, carried it on its shoulders, and implemented it in action. It has continuously increased its efforts in poverty alleviation through education and implemented multiple measures simultaneously. We strive to prevent every child in poor areas from dropping out of school due to poverty, so that every rural child can receive high-quality education, and build a strong gate to block the intergenerational transmission of poverty.
Support the bottom line and prevent a child from dropping out of school due to poverty
In May last year, Liu Yanmei, a junior high school student who lived in Baicaoping, Zhaibei Township, Pingshan County, Hebei, lost her father to illness. Xiao Yanmei relied on her mother to support her family. Xiao Yanmei couldn't bear her mother's hard work and said she no longer wanted to go to school and planned to go out to work. After learning the news, Li Jun, the head of Xibaipo School District, made a special trip to the school to do some work. He patiently settled the accounts for Xiao Yanmei: national, provincial and municipal level subsidies, no need to pay for school, and an annual living subsidy of 1,600 yuan, and travel expenses to school were reimbursed. "Xibaipo Education Charitable Foundation has also contacted you for funding, which is 600 yuan per semester for junior high school, 2,400 yuan per year for high school, and 4,000 yuan for college." After a few words, the child's concerns were dispelled. Xiao Yanmei stayed in school and her grades have remained at the grade level. Top three.
In 2018 alone, Pingshan County distributed 10.64 million yuan in scholarships per day, benefiting 15,186 people. At the same time, we actively strived for social funding totaling 7.08 million yuan and funded 1,120 poor college students, achieving full coverage of student funding from preschool education to higher education. In addition, Pingshan County has also implemented the policy of free tuition and textbook fees for high schools in the county. Last year, it invested 8.79 million yuan, basically realizing "no cost to attend school in the county."
This is the epitome of Hebei Province’s strengthening of “bottom line” support for poor students.
“Never let a student drop out of school due to family financial difficulties.” This is a solemn commitment made publicly by the Hebei Provincial Department of Education to the public. Today, Hebei Province has formed a comprehensive education system covering preschool to graduate school across the province. Financial aid system for poor students.
Yang Yong introduced that this year, on the basis of achieving full coverage of financial aid for poor students in all stages of education, Hebei Province will, starting from the autumn semester, provide financial support to four types of families including students registered in the compulsory education stage in the province. Non-boarding students will receive living allowances at a standard of 500 yuan per year for primary school students and 625 yuan for each junior high school student. At the same time, rural primary school students in 103 counties (cities, districts) across the province will receive free nutritious meals.
In addition, in order to comprehensively improve the education level of the poor, Hebei Province has further improved the administrative supervision mechanism for dropout students to resume school, the joint control and joint guarantee work mechanism for enrollment, and the dynamic monitoring mechanism for dropout control and school guarantee. County (city) The "seven chiefs" responsibility system for controlling dropouts and ensuring school safety has been implemented. "We will further implement student-centered targeted assistance policies and implement policies based on location, family, and person to prevent school-age children and adolescents from dropping out of school due to poverty, distance, tiredness of school, and lack of care," Yang Yong said. .
Statistical data shows that the current retention rate of nine-year compulsory education students in Hebei Province has reached 97.21%, exceeding the national average by 3 percentage points.
Strong schools and strong teachers enable rural children to learn well at home
In early winter, in Luotuowan Village, Longquanguan Town, Fuping County, Baoding City, with an average altitude of more than 1,500 meters, the cold wind in the deep mountains of Taihang City At first glance, it couldn't stop the satisfaction and joy in the villagers' hearts.
“The village is more lively now that there is a primary school, and the children don’t have to travel over the mountains to go to school.” The elders in the village are very happy about the changes in the village primary school.
More than 20 years ago, due to the decrease in school-age children, the original Luotuowan Village Primary School was withdrawn and merged. The children in the village had to go to Zhaotisi Central Primary School in Longquanguan Town, 4 kilometers away. Not to mention the hardship, Lunch and pick-up and drop-off for the children are all problems. In 2013, Luotuowan Primary School resumed construction, and the children moved into the new campus that year.
Small rural schools and township boarding schools are the "nerve endings" of educational development. Since 2013, Fuping County has insisted on restoring teaching sites for younger students as much as possible to achieve enrollment in nearby places; it also concentrated appropriately on older students and built new boarding schools. So far, the county has completed the renovation and upgrading of more than 70 small schools. There are 32 boarding schools in the county, covering all boarding schools for students in grades four to nine.
In recent years, Hebei Province has made great efforts to promote the construction of small-scale rural schools and township boarding schools. In 2019, 500 million yuan of provincial special funds and 1.46 billion yuan of school building safety guarantee mechanism funds were allocated to build, reconstruct and expand rural primary and secondary schools.
On the basis of reasonable planning, Hebei Province has targeted weak links and key areas, continuously made up for the shortcomings in running conditions of weak rural schools, and given preferential treatment in terms of funding investment. Since 2014, the province has invested 26.2 billion yuan in the renovation of weak compulsory education schools, built, renovated and expanded school buildings with an area of ??10.26 million square meters, and purchased a total of 28.91 million living facilities, desks and stools, computers and teaching equipment. , sets), purchasing instruments and equipment worth 6.77 billion yuan.
The hardware foundation has been solidified, but rural school management and the improvement of education and teaching levels have become urgent problems to be solved. what to do?
Making great efforts to strengthen the construction of teaching staff and improve the comprehensive quality of rural teachers is a task that Hebei Province has been attaching great importance to in recent years.
In order to optimize the structure of the rural teacher team, Hebei Province strives to expand teacher supplement channels and attract outstanding talents to teach: by formulating a rural teacher supplement plan, expanding the national special post teacher plan, implementing a public-funded training plan for primary school teachers and According to the rural school primary subject teacher supplementation plan, since 2016, the province's rural schools have supplemented 61,000 teachers, including more than 9,700 primary subject teachers such as music, sports, and art, which has alleviated the structural contradictions in the rural teacher team from the source.
At the same time, Hebei Province has taken various measures to improve the capabilities of rural teachers, investing about 140 million yuan every year to carry out teacher training programs and quality improvement projects for rural principals in difficult areas, and provide targeted education in poverty-stricken areas. help.
Taking volunteer teaching as an example, Hebei Province has promoted the implementation of "three plans": the "Three Districts" volunteer teaching plan, the rural volunteer teaching plan for outstanding retired teachers, and the "old principals going to the countryside" plan. Since 2013, nearly 1,000 outstanding in-service teachers have been selected from central urban areas to teach in key counties for national and provincial poverty alleviation and development work in the province every year. In addition to teaching tasks, they have also prepared lessons collectively, held lectures, and opened open classes in various forms. , train local teachers to improve education and teaching standards, and at the same time form a special teacher lecture group, which spends two months every year to go to poverty-stricken areas to send teachers to the countryside; since last year, 100 retired senior teachers have been selected and hired every year to work at the national and provincial levels in the province Support teaching in rural schools in key counties for poverty alleviation and development work, leading and guiding the growth of rural teachers; starting this year, 6 cities including Shijiazhuang and Tangshan will set up 20 teaching support teams to teach in rural schools in 10 deeply impoverished counties across the province.
In order to allow children to learn well at home, Hebei Province has also adapted measures to local conditions to speed up the sharing of high-quality educational resources. Fuping County, located in the deep mountainous area of ??Taihang, has signed a contract with the Baoshi Affiliated School, a century-old famous school. Longquanguan School, Baihe School, and Fudong Primary School in Fuping County have become branch branches of the Baoshi Affiliated School. The executive principals and key teachers of each school are all from the Baoshi Affiliated School. Affiliated schools are directly selected.
“I am really blessed to be able to enjoy the same high-quality education as children in the city at my doorstep.” More than one student in Fuping said this.
Vocational education has wide coverage and helps poor families embark on the road to wealth
“Now I can earn 5,000 yuan a month. In addition to paying for my sister’s schooling and my daily living expenses, I also I was able to save about 2,000 yuan to send to my parents in my hometown." Wang Shoudong from Dawulan Town, Qinglong County, Qinhuangdao City, participated in the free professional skills training organized by the county vocational education center and learned a skill. He was employed by a joint-stock company and earned a "high salary", and his family was lifted out of poverty in one fell swoop. "Live a good life and have more success in life." Wang Shoudong is full of hope for the future.
“Every year, hundreds of children from poor families receive free vocational education in the Vocational Education Center and use their skills to get out of poverty.” Zhang Diansheng, Secretary of the Party Branch of Qinglong County Vocational Education Center, said happily.
Vocational education is the most direct and effective means and channel to help the poor get rid of poverty and become rich. “One person in vocational education, one person in employment, and one household lifted out of poverty” has become a reality in Hebei Province.
At the beginning of this year, the People's Government of Hebei Province issued the "Implementation Plan for the Reform and Development of Vocational Education in Hebei Province" to further clarify the goals, tasks and roadmap of vocational education in poverty alleviation.
Implement the standardization construction project of secondary vocational schools to meet the corresponding national standards by 2022 and improve the basic school running conditions as a whole; promote the quality improvement project of secondary vocational education and continue to support 120 schools with relatively high development levels Take the lead in development; continue to implement the action plan for the innovative development of higher vocational education, focusing on the construction of 25 high-quality higher vocational colleges at the provincial level or above, 120 backbone majors (groups), 40 productive training bases established by schools and enterprises, 20 A "dual-qualified" teacher training and training base, 20 provincial-level applied technology collaborative innovation centers, etc., to improve the development level of higher vocational education as a whole; implement high-level higher vocational colleges and major (group) construction plans, focus on cultivating and building 4 High-level higher vocational colleges that lead reform, drive development, Chinese characteristics, and world standards and 30 high-level majors (groups) that closely follow industrial development, have deep cooperation between schools and enterprises, and have high social recognition will create a highland for the development of higher vocational education.
Deepen the integration of industry and education, school-enterprise cooperation, and combine education and training to build a diversified school-running pattern; carry out extensive training and build a number of industrial talent training bases; solidly promote targeted poverty alleviation in vocational education and implement poverty alleviation measures for poor families. Student aid policy, improve the school aid supplement system, select a group of urban high-quality secondary vocational schools, accurately recruit students from registered poor families in rural areas of the province, and establish a vocational education counterpart assistance mechanism covering key counties for poverty alleviation and development in the province; services Rural revitalization strategy, vigorously carry out technical skills training for new professional farmers and other rural practitioners...
The "Four Major Project Plans" and "30 Tasks and Measures" for the development of vocational education in Hebei Province are detailed in content and have clear goals.
“The train runs fast, all because of the headband.” Jia Haiming, deputy director of the Hebei Provincial Department of Education, said that Hebei Province began a pilot program for training new professional farmers in 2016 and identified 20 Hebei Business and Trade Schools and other Pilot schools. "It is planned that by 2022, the connection rate between agricultural vocational colleges and the agricultural industry will reach 100%, and 25,000 new professional farmers will be trained."
The training of new professional farmers is mainly for those aged 18 to 55 years old. Rural agricultural workers include large planting and breeding households with a moderate production and operation scale, family farm operators, backbones of farmers' cooperatives, college students who have returned to their hometowns to start businesses, graduates of secondary and higher vocational schools, returning migrant workers and veterans, etc. Today, in Hebei Province, a large number of rural professional and technical talents and leaders in agricultural wealth are taking shape.
“The whole village has built 15,000 acres of chestnut orchards, with 1,000 tons of fruit produced this year, and per capita income of 6,000 yuan.” He has obtained a new professional farmer certificate and is currently a director of the Wuzhishan Chestnut Cooperative in Xiaoyingzi Town, Qinglong County The tall Han Qingrui said excitedly.
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