Zhou Yaming, director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, said on the 4th that Shanghai will closely combine the high-quality development of education with the construction of an international science and technology innovation center and the construction of a high-level talent highland to cultivate top-notch innovative talents and build a close industry-university-research collaborative innovation system to Strong education, strong talents, and strong science and technology contribute to strong industries, strong economies, and strong cities.
Regarding the progress of Shanghai universities in basic research and original innovation in recent years, Zhou Yaming pointed out that these universities have built a number of major innovation platforms and undertaken a number of major research tasks around leading industries such as biomedicine and artificial intelligence. Next, the education department in Shanghai will implement policies in two categories, namely, basic research and scientific and technological research, respectively, by encouraging the selection of "good problems" and "high-risk problems" in the free exploration mode to improve the original level of basic research; to vigorously promote " Organized scientific research" to improve the efficiency of task-oriented scientific and technological research, and to achieve major original achievements and breakthroughs in key core technologies. At present, there are 64 general colleges and universities in Shanghai, with about 800,000 students, including 50,000 doctoral students, 200,000 master students, and 550,000 undergraduate students.
On the same day, in the 2023 Shanghai "People's Livelihood Interview", Zhou Yaming responded to many topics of public concern. Regarding the digital transformation of education, Zhou Yaming said that the digital transformation of education is an important field of digital transformation of cities. The digital transformation of education has the advantages of breaking through the constraints of time and space, rapid replication and dissemination, rich presentation methods, and outstanding intelligent personality. It is an important basis for promoting educational equity and improving educational quality. He introduced that the construction of digital teaching systems for primary and secondary schools is an important scenario for the digital transformation of basic education. This year, relevant application tests have been carried out in more than 300 schools in five test areas in Shanghai, with a total of 100,000 students and 5,000 teachers participating, covering 24 subjects from elementary school to high school. Zhou Yaming pointed out that school education should actively promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and education and teaching, and improve the scope of high-quality educational resources to radiate services. It is reported that at present, there are 3,446 primary, secondary, and primary schools within the Shanghai national education system, with more than 3.08 million students.
Since January 1 this year, the "Shanghai Municipal Regulations on Preschool Education and Nursing Services" (hereinafter referred to as "Regulations") has been officially implemented, which has attracted a lot of attention. Zhou Yaming said that as an important part of Shanghai's construction of a "15-minute community life circle", the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission will build high-quality resources for childcare services at the doorstep, and create more high-quality kindergartens, warm "baby houses" and scientific child-rearing families at the doorstep Guidance station to relieve the pressure of childbirth, parenting, and education.
Talking about strictly following the rules of children's cognitive growth and physical and mental development, Zhou Yaming pointed out: "We must promote the strict implementation of the "Regulations" to ensure that kindergartens do not organize any examinations and tests, and do not engage in subject-based or primary-school courses. At the same time, we also We will continue to convey the scientific concept of parenting and growth to parents of young children through various channels and methods, so that children can have a healthy and happy childhood." He revealed that this year, Shanghai will start the construction of high-quality kindergarten projects. From this year to 2025, Shanghai strives to build all public kindergartens into high-quality kindergartens within three years.