At a meeting held at the end of September with the theme of Promoting High-Quality Development organized by the Press Office of the State Council of China, a representative of the Ministry of Education said that the results after 3 years of implementing the "double reduction" policy were positive.

"We will continue to strengthen the management of tutoring activities to avoid distortions," affirmed Mr. Wang Jiayi - Deputy Minister of Education of China. To summarize the situation after 3 years of implementing the policy, the representative of the Ministry of Education of this country summarized it with two phrases "double reduction" and "double increase".

Firstly, regarding the "double reduction" , the number of training facilities for key subjects (Math, English and Chinese) has decreased sharply, large-scale tutoring centers have been basically controlled and tightened, especially reducing homework and the burden of extra-curricular learning for students.

Second, regarding the "double increase" , about 200,000 schools nationwide have implemented after-school services, with the rate of students voluntarily participating from 50% before the implementation of the "double reduction" policy to more than 90%. In addition, the quality of teaching in schools has also been significantly improved.

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Mr. Wang Jiayi - Vice Minister of Education of China. Photo source: China News

Mr. Wang Jiayi said that the next step of the Chinese Ministry of Education will be to consolidate the achievements of the "double reduction" policy, to create a healthy educational environment and strengthen "double addition" in schools. That is, to focus on improving the quality of teaching while promoting the implementation of after-school services in schools, by:

One is to expand resources and strengthen teaching quality in primary and secondary schools: widely implement the quality improvement plan, optimize the allocation of resources in the region, and strengthen the construction of a team of highly qualified teachers. At the same time, China strongly promotes the digitalization of education to expand access to high-quality educational resources.

Second, improve the quality and stimulate the intrinsic motivation of teaching and learning activities: Optimize teaching methods, strengthen teaching management and apply technology to teaching, to comprehensively improve the quality of class hours, ensure that teachers teach well enough and students learn well enough. The country also constantly improves the quality of after-school services to meet the diverse learning needs of students.

Third is to focus on practice , building a comprehensive education system: Strengthening practical activities in subjects, linking subjects and organizing social practical activities, to train students' creative thinking and discovery ability. At the same time, strengthening experimental science education.

Fourth, strengthen supervision and create a synchronous management environment inside and outside the school: Perfect the long-term and regular management mechanism for training activities outside the school, strictly prohibit illegal training activities in major subjects, strengthen management of non-mainstream training activities, and strictly handle violations. At the same time, strengthen the management of financial resources of training institutions outside the school to prevent the situation of collecting unusually high and uncontrolled fees.

On the controversial issue, schools in China have started to increase recess time from 10 minutes to 15 minutes to encourage students to exercise, according to Vice Minister Wang Jiayi, this is a measure to help students improve their health. "Students need to ensure at least 2 hours of physical activity per day, including one PE class and one hour of physical activity after school," said Mr. Yi.

(Source: China News)

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