The Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Province held a ministerial and provincial capital meeting and signed a strategic cooperation agreement to effectively promote the demonstration and leading role of Shaanxi's construction of a strong education province in the western region. (Reporter Gao Yizhe) Today, the Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Province held a ministerial and provincial capital meeting in Beijing to jointly study and implement the strategic deployment of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and transform the consensus on ministerial and provincial cooperation into specific actions to promote the high-quality development of education in Shaanxi. Huai Jinpeng, Secretary of the Party Group and Minister of the Ministry of Education, and Zhao Yide, Secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, attended the meeting and delivered speeches. Zhao Gang, Deputy Secretary and Governor of Shaanxi Province, Wang Xiao, Standing Committee Member and Executive Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province, Sun Yao and Wang Guangyan, members of the Party Group and Deputy Ministers of the Ministry of Education, attended the meeting. Wang Xiao and Wang Guangyan signed a ministerial and provincial strategic cooperation agreement on behalf of both parties. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has set the strategic goal of building a strong education country by 2035. Both the Ministry and the Province should take advantage of Shaanxi's geographical advantages and industrial structure, take the signing of agreements as an opportunity, do a good job in top-level design and systematic planning, and effectively promote the construction of a strong education province in Shaanxi to play a demonstration and leading role in the western region. We must closely align with national strategies and regional development needs, focus on playing a leading role in higher education, promote the close integration of the education chain, talent chain, industry chain, and innovation chain, and build an innovative community and industrial cluster with international competitiveness. We should grasp the population size, growth trends, and structural changes, actively adjust the education layout, and improve the quality and level of basic education. We should further promote the high-level opening up of education, deeply integrate into the overall pattern of jointly building the "the Belt and Road", and promote Shaanxi's innovative cooperation with international organizations and Central Asian countries in talent training, discipline construction, joint scientific research and other aspects. Zhao Yide, on behalf of the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, expresses gratitude to the Ministry of Education for its long-term care and support to Shaanxi. He said that in recent years, Shaanxi has fully implemented the Party's education policy, firmly established the concept of prioritizing education development, actively promoted education equity, promoted the construction of "Double First Class" through "one school, one policy", and further improved the quality of education at all levels and types. I hope that the Ministry of Education will continue to care and support the work in Shaanxi, guide and assist Shaanxi in deepening the reform and opening up in the education field, and accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system. Shaanxi will take the signing of this agreement as an opportunity to solidly promote education to address its shortcomings, strengths and weaknesses, and establish distinctive features, providing stronger intellectual and talent support for high-quality development and modernization construction. Author: Reporter Gao Yizhe, China Education Daily, December 13, 2023, 1st edition (Xinhua News Agency)