Profile of Local Education

Education is a cause that has the bearing on individual survival and development, on the inheritance and creativity of civilization, on social growth and harmony, and on the national rejuvenation and prosperity. As a systematic project that plays a fundamental, pioneering and panoramic role in economic and social development, education paves the track for brain cultivation, economic growth, cultural prosperity and social harmony. As the bridge to the kaleidoscope of human development, education promises human rise in personality, all-round development as well as life quality.

Into the threshold of the new millennium, the city’s pace to popularize modern education has been stepped up and thus began to embrace the age advocating education of quality and equal opportunity. With the city’s improving system of national education and the widened resources of quality education, people of Hangzhou are now able to receive better education in greater conditions and considerable progress has been made in the fairness of public education. Hanghzou is marching forward to the balance between quality and equality for the 15-year fundamental education program, and has broken new grounds in vocational education that encourages cooperation between schools and firms, emphasizes the connection between teaching and production, and seeks collaboration between schools and factories. The circle of higher education is seeking quality-centered construction that parallels its leapfrog development. Hangzhou has established lifelong education system on a fast track, and let community-based education play in full swing. Schooling for adults has also won rapid growth. As the 2014 report on the assessment of educational modernization in the 15 Chinese cities of deputy-provincial level indicated, Hangzhou was the only one which ranked top 5 as for urban educational modernity in strategic development, equal opportunity and quality.

Today, Hangzhou’s strides toward educational modernity are even reinforced by the information technology and globalization. By striving for the availability of fair, appropriate, open and sustainable education in high quality, it is committed to the mission of activating the education with the construction of a knowledge-based, creative and environment-friendly city. Also, with this in mind, the city tries to bless more people with better education so as to provide intellectual support to the economic and social development and pave the way to a bright future for the youth.