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Developing Education We must give priority to the development of education. We will intensify our efforts to improve quality-oriented education and strengthen ideological and political work at (in) schools in order to help our students improve their moral qualities, intellectual ability, physical fitness and aesthetic appreciation. We will strengthen basic education. We will pay particular attention to quickening the pace of making nine-year compulsory education universal in poverty-stricken areas and areas inhabited by ethnic minority groups. We will extend the reform of the management system for rural compulsory education under which county authorities assume the main responsibilities. We will make sure that teachers are paid in full and on time (receive full pay on time).
Senior secondary school education will be vigorously expanded. We will steadily develop regular higher education and adjust the division of disciplines to adapt to new circumstances⁶ (accommodate new conditions). We will make great efforts (make concerted attempts) to develop secondary and higher vocational education (post-secondary vocational training). We will (We intend to) reform (revise) the curriculum and teaching materials, updating (modernizing) the instructional content and improving the quality of teaching. We will continue to promote the reform of (We will further reform) the internal management system of institutions of higher learning (universities and colleges/post-secondary institutions) and commercialize [their] support services. The ideological level and professional competence (ideological and professional standards) of teachers should be raised (elevated) in an all-round way. We will accelerate the application of IT to education (increase IT use in education) and develop modern distance education (expand up-to-date distance learning). The government will increase its input (investment) in education and encourage, support and standardize school management (the running of schools) by non-governmental sectors (agencies) or by Chinese-foreign cooperation (undertakings).