The Ministry of Education has deployed efforts to deepen the reduction of workload for primary and secondary school teachers.

Recently, the Ministry of Education issued a notice on "Several Measures to Further Reduce the Non-educational Teaching Burden of Primary and Secondary School Teachers", making a systematic deployment to deepen the work of reducing the burden on primary and secondary school teachers. The notice is based on the actual work of reducing the burden on teachers, focusing on key points and outstanding issues. It proposes 8 measures such as strict regulation of document review, checklist management inspection, optimization of the "white list" system for bringing social affairs into schools, strict control of the borrowing and loaning of teachers, streamlined data reporting, improvement of after-school service guarantees, perfection of monitoring and verification, and strengthening departmental work coordination. These measures provide clear guidance for promoting the work of reducing the burden on teachers in various regions, and promote the institutionalization, standardization, and long-term effectiveness of the work of reducing the burden on teachers. The notice highlights systematic governance, treating both the symptoms and the root causes, and precise management in order to address the structural contradictions and deep-seated problems of excessive teacher workload. It reinforces quantitative control, clarifying specific indicators such as the total number of items on the "white list" and the frequency of activities in schools, enhancing policy operability. It adheres to systematic measures, from preliminary screening and regulation in the middle to monitoring and accountability afterwards, constructing a governance mechanism for the entire chain. It promotes collaborative governance, establishing a multidimensional supervision system covering education supervision, online inspections, complaint acceptance, supervisory teams, third-party monitoring, and enhancing collaborative linkage with discipline inspection and supervision, internet information, public security, and other departments, to consolidate work efforts. The notice requires the promotion of the role of local party committees' leading groups on education in coordinating the work of reducing the burden on teachers, integrating measures to reduce the burden on the grassroots with governance over formalism. It emphasizes supervision and guidance, conducting interviews and notifications for areas and units with weak implementation and prominent problems, and holding individuals accountable seriously. Local education administrative departments should implement precise measures based on actual conditions to ensure that the measures to reduce the burden are implemented effectively and achieve results, effectively safeguarding the professional dignity and legitimate rights and interests of teachers, and providing a strong guarantee for building an educationally strong country.