Students on the Primary School Affiliated to Hefei Normal School in Hefei, East China’s Anhui Province, pay attention to humanoid robotic “Xiao An,” throughout a science class on October 27, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Primary School Affiliated to Hefei Normal School
China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) and six different departments have collectively issued the guidelines on strengthening science and know-how education in primary and secondary faculties. The doc outlines six key priorities, together with selling in-depth worldwide exchanges and cooperation, aiming to help the high-quality growth of education, science and know-how, and expertise, in accordance to an MOE launch printed on the web site of the MOE on Wednesday.
By 2030, China goals to have a foundational science and know-how education system in place for primary and secondary faculties, with additional enhancements to curricula, educating reforms shall be constantly deepened, and the analysis and help programs shall be mainly put in place, in accordance to the guidelines.
By 2035, a totally built-in science and know-how education ecosystem is scheduled to be established, in accordance to the guidelines.
Strengthening science and know-how education in primary and secondary faculties is the strategic cornerstone for responding to world technological competitors and securing the initiative in nationwide growth, and it’s the long-term plan for consolidating the foundations of constructing a robust nation and reaching the good rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, an MOE official mentioned in response to a media inquiry on the background of the issuance of the guidelines, in accordance to the MOE.
The official famous that strengthening sci-tech education can also be an intrinsic a part of deepening total education reform and selling high-quality basic education. It is significant for accelerating the event of a robust nation in education, science and know-how, and expertise cultivation, in addition to for the great growth of a contemporary socialist nation, the official added.
The guidelines additionally element particular measures. Relevant departments will strategically combine and make the most of off campus laboratories, science and know-how infrastructure, venues, workshops, coaching bases and different sources to establish hands-on studying areas, offering college students with a platform to conduct tech inquiry experiments and engineering follow in actual world settings.
The related departments will promote worldwide youth science and innovation exchanges, undertake a dual-mentor mannequin for project-based studying, and invite Nobel laureates and different worldwide consultants to present on-line steerage to domesticate college students’ world consciousness and innovation capability, mentioned the guidelines.
Meanwhile, they are going to implement the abroad coaching program for science and know-how education lecturers, choosing primary and secondary college lecturers for research visits to abroad universities to broaden their worldwide perspective and skilled abilities, in accordance to the guidelines.
Many cities throughout China have begun implementing science education initiatives. On Wednesday, the Global Times discovered from the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission that Shanghai has carried out science education for all primary and secondary college college students and is creating a coherent, progressive curriculum spanning the whole nine-year obligatory education cycle.
Shanghai encourages senior excessive faculties to supply extra inquiry-based elective programs in arithmetic, physics, chemistry and associated fields, whereas actively piloting STEM applications, in accordance to the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission.
Xie Shangzhi, a vice principal at Wenzhou No. 22 Senior Middle School, East China’s Zhejiang Province, informed the Global Times on Wednesday that the varsity has developed a collection of school-based AI programs at basic, intermediate, and superior ranges, and has renovated its chemistry laboratories final 12 months, and the physics laboratories are presently present process renovation.
Meanwhile, conventional project-based science and innovation actions, akin to drone initiatives and programming initiatives, are additionally being performed, Xie mentioned.