The central government issued a special document: improve the treatment and status of this profession.
Cctv newsA few days ago, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued opinions on comprehensively deepening the reform of teachers’ team construction in the new era, and made top-level design and clear requirements on how to cultivate high-quality teachers, how to strengthen the construction of teachers’ morality and style, and how to improve teachers’ treatment and social status. The opinion pointed out that measures should be taken to truly make teachers an enviable profession.

This "Opinion" is divided into six major items and 27 minor items, which makes comprehensive arrangements for strengthening the construction of teachers. The "Opinions" pointed out that the purpose of comprehensively deepening the reform of the construction of teachers in the new era is to cultivate high-quality professional and innovative teachers who are satisfied with the party and the people. By 2035:
Teachers’ comprehensive quality, professional level and innovation ability have been greatly improved and cultivated.Millions of backbone teachers, hundreds of thousands of outstanding teachers and tens of thousands of educator teachers..
Teachers’ management system and mechanism are scientific and efficient, and the management system and ability of teachers are modernized.
Teachers actively adapt to new technological changes such as informationization and artificial intelligence, and actively and effectively carry out education and teaching.
Respecting teachers and attaching importance to teaching has become a common practice. Teachers have a sense of happiness in their posts, a sense of accomplishment in their careers, and a sense of honor in society. Teachers have become an enviable profession.
Reform adheres to five basic principles.

First, ensure the direction and ensure that the party firmly grasps the leadership of the construction of teachers.
The second is to strengthen the guarantee and put the work of teachers in the key supporting strategic field of the development of education.
The third is to highlight teachers’ morality and put improving teachers’ ideological and political quality and professional ethics in the first place.
The fourth is to deepen reform, taking management system reform and mechanism innovation as a breakthrough.
Fifth, classified policy, according to the different characteristics and development reality of teachers at all levels, considering regional, urban and rural, inter-school differences, and taking targeted policy measures.
Establishing teachers’ personal credit records based on teachers’ morality
"Opinions" pointed out that China’s teachers are generally healthy and positive, but individual teachers’ violation of teachers’ ethics sometimes occurs. Although it is a very small number, it seriously damages the dignity of teachers and affects the image of teachers. To this end,《Opinions require:

We will implement the requirements of strictly administering the Party in an all-round way to every teacher’s Party branch and teacher party member, put the party’s political construction in the first place, and arm our minds with the Supreme Leader’s New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought.
Improve the long-term mechanism of teachers’ morality construction and promote the normalization and long-term effect of teachers’ morality construction.
We will carry out the negative list system of teachers’ ethics assessment, establish teachers’ personal credit records, improve the mechanism of honesty commitment and dishonesty punishment, and focus on solving problems such as teachers’ ethics anomie and academic misconduct.
Enhance professional quality and increase support for normal universities.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Education, as of 2016, there were 15.78 million full-time teachers in schools at all levels in China. Compared with 2012, the number of full-time teachers in preschool education increased by 753,000, an increase of 50.9%; The number of full-time teachers in colleges and universities increased by 162,000, the number of full-time teachers in special education increased by 9,516 and the number of full-time teachers in compulsory education increased by 187,000. howeverThe structural imbalance of teachers in urban and rural compulsory education still exists.It is very important to vigorously revitalize teacher education and improve teachers’ professional quality and ability. OpinionsPut forward:

Implement the action plan to revitalize teacher education, and establish a teacher education system with China characteristics, with normal colleges as the main body and high-level non-normal colleges participating.
Encourage all localities to improve the per capita funding standard for teachers’ majors in a timely manner in light of the actual situation and improve the level of normal education security.
We will improve the policy of free education for normal students in normal universities directly under the Ministry of Education, and adjust the teaching service period to 6 years.
Promote a number of basic and high-level comprehensive universities to set up teachers’ education colleges and set up teachers’ majors.
Straighten out the system and mechanism and improve the access and recruitment system of primary and secondary school teachers
Education reform has entered a period of deepening the area and tackling key problems, and deepening the comprehensive reform of teacher management is the premise of rationalizing the system and mechanism. OpinionsFocus on management ills:

Revitalize the stock of career establishment, optimize the establishment structure, tilt towards the teaching staff, increase the total number of teachers in various forms, and give priority to ensuring the needs of educational development.
The implementation of compulsory education teachers "county management school employment". Further promote the exchange and rotation of teachers and principals in compulsory education schools in the county. The implementation of the school district (township) walking teaching system. Gradually expand the implementation scale of rural teachers’ special post plan, and raise the wage subsidy standard for special post teachers in a timely manner.
To improve the teacher qualification examination policy, new teachers must obtain teacher qualifications.
Gradually upgrade the qualifications of kindergarten teachers to junior college, primary school teachers to normal college and non-normal undergraduate, junior high school teachers to undergraduate, and ordinary high school teachers to graduate students where conditions permit.
Appropriately increase the proportion of intermediate and senior teachers in primary and secondary schools. Carry out the reform of the rank system of primary and secondary school principals.
Improve the qualification standards of teachers in vocational colleges, and explore the experience of industry enterprises as a necessary condition for identifying the ability of education and teaching and obtaining the qualification of professional teachers.
Strictly control the entrance to the selection and appointment of teachers in colleges and universities, and implement a double inspection of ideological and political quality and professional ability. Promote the reform of the professional title system of teachers in colleges and universities, and delegate the evaluation right directly to colleges and universities.
Improve the treatment of teachers and ensure the average salary of primary and secondary school teachers ≥ Average salary of local civil servants
Constantly improve the status and treatment, so that teachers have more sense of acquisition, happiness and security, teachers will have more sense of honor and responsibility, and they can truly become an enviable profession. OpinionsPut forward:

Establish the special legal status of public primary and secondary school teachers as national public officials, clarify the rights and obligations of primary and secondary school teachers, and strengthen protection and management.
Improve the long-term linkage mechanism of primary and secondary school teachers’ salaries, and take into account the actual income level of local civil servants when approving the total performance salary, so as to ensure that the average wage income level of primary and secondary school teachers is not lower than or higher than that of local civil servants.
We will conscientiously implement policies such as subsidies for hard and remote areas, fully implement the living allowance policy for rural teachers in concentrated contiguous areas with special difficulties, implement differentiated subsidies according to the degree of hardship and remoteness of schools, and encourage qualified places to raise subsidy standards.
Improve the social security mechanism for teachers in private schools, which is reasonably shared by schools, individuals and the government. Private schools should sign contracts with teachers in accordance with the law, pay wages in full and on time, protect their welfare benefits and other legitimate rights and interests, and pay social insurance premiums and housing accumulation funds in full for teachers.
Colleges and universities independently determine the income distribution method within the approved total performance pay. The reward income from the transformation of scientific and technological achievements obtained by teachers in colleges and universities according to law is not included in the total wage base of this unit.
Improve the social status of teachers. Increase the recognition of teachers. Vigorously publicize the "model of the times" and "the most beautiful teacher" among teachers. Carry out the selection and recognition of national famous teachers and national teaching achievement awards, and focus on rewarding front-line teachers who have made outstanding contributions. Do a good job in the selection of special-grade teachers and play a leading role. Do a good job in issuing honorary certificates for teachers who have been teaching in rural schools for 30 years.
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