Resolution of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on the Reform of the Educational System (May 27, 1985) (Excerpt)

Abstract

The construction of socialist modernization not only requires high-level scientific and technological specialists, but also, and urgently, millions of middle- and primary-echelon technical personnel, managerial personnel, and technicians and skilled workers who have received a solid vocational or technical education, as well as other urban and rural laborers who have received good vocational training. Without such a vast army of laborers and technical people, it would be difficult to transform advanced scientific technology and advanced facilities and equipment into practical social forces of production. Yet, it is precisely vocational and technical education that is the weakest link in our entire educational enterprise at the present time. We must therefore take realistic and effective steps to reverse this situation and strive for a major development in vocational and technical education.