The "Conductor's Baton" Is Pointing to Quality Education

As we face the arrival of the twenty-first century, in what direction will our country's basic education be striding? Recently, Vice Premier Li Lanqing pointed out that the transition from an exam-oriented education to quality education is a profound reform in the realm of basic education, as well as a natural and inevitable requirement for enhancing the quality of the nation's citizens and the cultivation of people of true ability and talent who will bring us into the next century. This is also an urgent task that the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council have brought forth and assigned to those on the battlefront of basic education. For many years the Liaoning Provincial Education Commission has already put forth continued and persistent effort for the sake of making this switch in tracks. The Commission took the reforming of the secondary and primary schools' admission and examination systems as the breakthrough point for this switching of tracks, and, working in the right direction, it has taken a firm first stride on the path of switching from an exam-oriented education to quality education.