Joint Efforts in Revitalizing Education in Villages": 2019 China Educational Innovation 20 + Annual Meeting of the Forum is Held

On April 20-21, 2019, "Joint Efforts in Revitalizing Education in Villages: 2019 China Educational Innovation 20 + Annual Meeting of the Forum", which was sponsored by CDRF, was held at the Wanliu Campus of Zhongguancun No. Primary School in Beijing. Deputy Secretary General Fang Jin delivered a keynote speech in the session of "Revitalizing Villages, Integrating Urban-Rural areas and Revitalizing Education in Villages" In the meantime, the CDRF also co-sponsored the parallel session of "Challenge and Innovation of Preschool Education in Villages" with the China Institute for Educational Finance Research, Peking University. Responsible persons, scholars, organizational representatives and business representatives of preschool education from Guizhou, Xinjiang and other regions engaged in discussions at the parallel session.

In his keynote speech, Deputy Secretary General Fang Jin underscored the necessity of establishing preschools for villages, and indicated that to surmount the final barriers to preschool education in rural areas, we must take villages as the starting point and build a village-based public service system for child development in villages. He introduced the status and achievements of the "One Village One Preschool" program across the country, asked the society to pay attention to the living conditions of children in poor areas, and made due contributions to improving and advancing policy on preschool education in poverty-stricken areas.

Du Zhixin, Director of the Child Development Center, and Cao Yan, Program Manager of the CDRF, respectively chaired the two parallel sessions including "Challenge and Intervention in Preschool Education in Villages" and "Diverse Innovation Models and Practice Strategies for Preschool Education in Villages". The guests present dug into such problems as primary responsibilities assumed by governments for preschool education in rural areas, improvement in nutrition of pre-preschoolers in impoverished rural areas, as well as experience and practice of "tendency of stopping teaching preschoolers lessons of primary school".