中国教育在改革开放四十年的发展及挑战

Advances in Education教育进展, 2018, 8(6), 703-710

Published Online November 2018 in Hans. /journal/ae

https:///10.12677/ae.2018.86112

The Development and Challenges of

China’s Education in the 40 Years

of Reform and Opening Up

Siu-Wai Wu

Department of IELL, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Received: Nov. 9th, 2018; accepted: Nov. 21st, 2018; published: Nov. 28th, 2018

Abstract

In the 40 years of reform and opening up, the development of education at all levels in China has continued to grow. On Deng Xiaoping’s proposal that education should facing to modernization, the world, and the future, the focus of education of PRC in the early stage of reform is to promote the two-base project, and to implement free education in the compulsory stage at the beginning of this century, in order to promote the modernization of education throughout the country. Since the enrollment expansion at the end of the last century, China’s higher education has gone from elite education to mass education. Facing the world, from the decision to send international stu-dents, the number of study abroad Chinese students has increased, and China has become the largest source of international students in global students. At present, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. The main contradiction in education is the contradiction between the people’s demand for quality education and the unbalanced development of education.

Facing the future, the mainland should deepen reform and opening up in different part of educa-tional system. First, PRC should fully implement the core literacy of Chinese students’ develop-ment, and accelerate the construction of first-class universities and first-class disciplines, as well as plan ahead for the development of vocational education and lifelong learning. Of course, it is necessary to train high-quality, professional and innovative teachers to lead young people to study hard and strive for the realization of the Chinese dream. So that, the country can realize the de-velopment from a populous country to a human resource country. In the facing to the world, the mainland educators should have cultural self-confidence. In the face of international cultural ex-changes and rashes, it is recognized that excellent traditional culture is the soft power of Chinese culture. And cultivate mainland young to build a community of human destiny together with the youth everywhere to meet the challenges of human beings in the development of technology and the living environment.

Keywords

China’s Education Reform, Reform and Opening up of Educational Development, The Challenge of China’s Education