Six departments issued the Action Plan for Revitalizing High Schools in County Areas.

Recently, the Ministry of Education and five other departments issued the "Action Plan for the Revitalization of County-level Regular High Schools", systematically designing and comprehensively deploying measures to promote the high-quality development of county-level regular high school education. The plan includes eight major actions: 1. Expansion of education resources, establishing a mechanism for forecasting and early warning of school-age population and enrollment needs, promoting the expansion of existing regular high schools, and building a new batch of regular high schools. 2. Improvement of school conditions, improving the national standards for the construction of regular high schools, orderly promoting standardized construction in counties, focusing on addressing infrastructure deficiencies such as classrooms, laboratories, libraries, sports facilities, and student dormitories. 3. Enhancement of curriculum and teaching quality, strictly implementing the curriculum plan and standards for regular high schools, strengthening the construction of elective courses, deepening teaching reforms, improving course selection and class scheduling, enhancing research-based learning and inter-disciplinary teaching, paying attention to students' learning process, and establishing a mechanism for provincial and municipal educational researchers to link with county-level schools. 4. Upgrading the teacher workforce, timely supplementing teachers in scarce and weak subjects at county-level schools, encouraging outstanding teachers from urban high schools to support teaching at county-level schools, and directing projects such as the "Excellent Teachers Plan" towards county-level schools. The plan aims to cultivate leading education and teaching talents in county-level regular high schools, provide greater support in terms of title evaluation, appointment, and benefits to teachers at county-level schools, and select and strengthen the positions of secretaries and principals at county-level schools. 5. Empowerment through education digitalization, supporting county-level schools in building smart classrooms, utilizing resources and functions of national and provincial-level smart education platforms effectively, encouraging urban high schools to open up high-quality digital education resources to county-level schools, and enhancing digital literacy among teachers at county-level schools. 6. Deepening the reform of school system and mechanism, encouraging localities with conditions to enhance the coordination efforts at the city level in terms of resource allocation, funding, education evaluation, and standardized school management. This includes the implementation of pilot projects for comprehensive high school construction, exploring reforms in diversified admissions such as registration for enrollment, balanced allocation, and regional enrollment to overcome the tendency of focusing only on scores and furthering education. 7. Standardizing school operations, setting clear schedules for high school students at the provincial level regarding school hours and holidays, prohibiting weekend, holiday, or statutory holiday makeup classes or assessments, and strictly forbidding provincial high schools from illegal targeting of enrollment in county areas. 8. Pairing assistance, implementing a new round of projects for Ministry of Education-affiliated colleges and universities to provide support and assistance to county-level schools, deepening the "group-style" assistance of education talents in key counties supported in rural revitalization. This includes integrating assistance and support for county-level schools into the overall planning of East-West cooperation and pairing assistance, and directing special enrollment plans of colleges and universities toward weak education areas.