Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the opinions on further reducing the burden of homework and out-of-school training on students at the stage of compulsory education, and issued a circular requiring all localities and departments to conscientiously implement it in the light of reality.

The full text of the opinions on further reducing the burden of homework and out-of-school training of students in compulsory education is as follows:

In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress and the Fifth Plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, effectively improve the level of education in schools, and continuously standardize out-of-school training (including online training and offline training), effectively reduce the heavy homework burden of students in compulsory education and the burden of out-of-school training (hereinafter referred to as "double reduction"), now put forward the following suggestions.

I. overall requirements

1. Guiding ideology. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, we should comprehensively implement the party's educational policy, implement the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, focus on building a high-quality education system, and strengthen the role of school education as the main position. we will deepen the governance of off-campus training institutions, resolutely prevent acts infringing upon the interests of the masses, build a good ecology of education, effectively alleviate parents' anxiety, and promote the all-round development and healthy growth of students.

two。 Working principles. Adhere to student-oriented, respond to concerns, follow the laws of education, focus on the growth of students' physical and mental health, protect students' right to rest, improve the quality of school education and teaching as a whole, actively respond to social concerns and expectations, and reduce the burden of parents; adhere to governance according to law, cure both symptoms and root causes, strictly implement legal provisions such as compulsory education law and juvenile protection law, and strengthen source governance, systematic governance and comprehensive governance. Adhere to government-led and multi-party linkage, strengthen government overall planning, implement departmental responsibilities, give full play to the main role of schools, improve security policies, and clarify the cooperative responsibilities of schools and schools; adhere to overall promotion and steady implementation, fully implement the relevant state regulations on reducing students' overweight academic burden, pilot key and difficult issues first, actively promote typical experience, and ensure that the work of "double reduction" is stable and orderly.

3. Work goals. School education and teaching quality and service level are further improved, homework assignment is more scientific and reasonable, school after-school service basically meets the needs of students, students study better and return to campus, and the training behavior of out-of-school training institutions is standardized in an all-round way. Students' overweight homework burden and out-of-school training burden, family education expenditure and parents' corresponding energy burden were effectively reduced within one year, and achieved remarkable results within three years, and people's satisfaction with education was significantly improved.

Second, comprehensively reduce the total amount and duration of homework and lighten the burden of students' overweight homework.

4. Improve the operation management mechanism. Schools should improve the methods of homework management, strengthen the overall planning of homework in subject groups and grade groups, and reasonably regulate and control the homework structure to ensure that the difficulty does not exceed the national curriculum standards. Establish an in-school publicity system and strengthen quality supervision. It is strictly forbidden to assign or assign homework in a disguised form to parents, and it is strictly forbidden to require parents to inspect and correct homework.

5. Classify and define the total amount of homework. Schools should ensure that no written homework is assigned in the first and second grades of primary school, and consolidation exercises can be arranged appropriately in the school; the average completion time of written homework in the third to sixth grades of primary school does not exceed 60 minutes, and the average completion time of written homework in junior high school does not exceed 90 minutes.

6. Improve the quality of homework design. Give full play to the functions of homework diagnosis, consolidation and learning situation analysis, and bring homework design into the teaching and research system. The system is designed in line with age characteristics and learning rules, and embodies the basic homework guided by quality education. Encourage the arrangement of layered, flexible and personalized operations, resolutely overcome mechanical and ineffective operations, and put an end to repetitive and punitive operations.

7. Strengthen the guidance on the completion of homework. Teachers should guide primary school students to basically complete their written homework in school, and junior high school students to complete most of their written homework in school. Teachers should seriously correct their homework, do a good job of feedback in time, strengthen face-to-face explanation, carefully analyze the learning situation, and do a good job in answering questions. Students shall not be required to correct their homework by themselves.

8. Make use of spare time scientifically. Schools and parents should guide students to complete the remaining written homework after school, carry out necessary schoolwork, engage in housework as far as they can, carry out appropriate physical exercise, and carry out reading and artistic activities. Individual students who fail to finish their written homework after hard work should also go to bed on time. Guide students to make rational use of electronic products, control the duration of use, protect eyesight health, and prevent Internet addiction. Parents should actively communicate with their children, pay attention to their psychological emotions, and help them develop good study and life habits. Boarding schools should make overall arrangements for their extracurricular study and life.

Third, improve the level of after-school service in schools to meet the diversified needs of students

9. Ensure after-school service time. Schools should make full use of the advantages of resources, effectively implement various after-school educational activities, and meet the diversified learning needs of students in the school. Guide students to participate in after-school service voluntarily. In principle, the end time of after-school service is no earlier than the local normal working time; for students with special needs, the school should provide delayed trusteeship service; junior high school can set up self-study classes on weekday evenings. Schools can make overall arrangements for teachers to implement the "flexible commuting system".

10. Improve the quality of after-class service. The school should formulate the implementation plan of after-school service to enhance the attractiveness of after-school service. We should make full use of the after-class service time, guide students to finish their homework seriously, provide tutoring and answering questions for students with learning difficulties, and expand learning space for students who have the ability to learn. to carry out rich and colorful popular science, style, art, labor, reading, interest groups and community activities. You are not allowed to use the after-school service time to give new lessons.

11. Expand after-school service channels. After-school services are generally undertaken by teachers in our school, and retired teachers, qualified social professionals or volunteers can also be employed. The education department can organize excellent teachers in the region to carry out after-school services in schools with weak teachers. Strictly investigate and deal with teachers' paid supplementary lessons outside the school in accordance with the rules and regulations, until the qualification of teachers is revoked. Make full use of social resources and give full play to the role of extracurricular activities such as the Children's Palace and youth activity centers in after-school services.

twelve。 Strengthen and optimize the free online learning service. Education departments should collect and develop rich and high-quality online education and teaching resources, and make use of national and local education and teaching resources platforms as well as high-quality school network platforms to provide students with high-quality thematic education resources and learning resources covering all grades and disciplines free of charge, so as to promote the balanced development of educational resources and promote educational equity. All localities should actively create conditions and organize excellent teachers to carry out free online interactive exchange and answer questions. All localities and schools should step up publicity, promotion and use, and guide students to make good use of free online high-quality educational resources.

Fourth, adhere to strict management and comprehensively standardize the behavior of off-campus training.

13. Adhere to strict examination and approval agencies. All localities no longer approve new out-of-school discipline training institutions for students in the stage of compulsory education, and existing discipline training institutions are uniformly registered as non-profit organizations. The original online discipline training institutions for the record shall be changed to the examination and approval system. All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) should conduct a comprehensive investigation of the online discipline training institutions that have been put on the record, and go through the examination and approval procedures in accordance with the standards. If it fails to pass the examination and approval, the original record registration and Internet information service business operation license (ICP) shall be cancelled. For non-disciplinary training institutions, all localities should distinguish between sports, culture and arts, science and technology, and other categories, define the corresponding competent departments, classify and formulate standards, and strictly examine and approve them. Seriously investigate and deal with off-campus training institutions that do not have the corresponding qualifications and carry out multi-site training without examination and approval in accordance with the law. All discipline training institutions shall not be listed for financing, and capitalization operation shall be strictly prohibited; listed companies shall not invest in discipline training institutions through stock market financing, and may not purchase assets of discipline training institutions by issuing shares or paying cash; foreign investors may not hold or participate in subject training institutions by means of mergers and acquisitions, entrusted operation, joining chains, using variable interest entities, etc. Those who have violated the rules should be cleaned up and rectified.

14. Standardize the behavior of training service. Establish a record-keeping and supervision system for training content, and formulate and promulgate measures for the management of training materials for out-of-school training institutions. Advanced training beyond the standard is strictly prohibited, non-disciplinary training institutions are strictly prohibited from engaging in disciplinary training, and the provision of overseas educational courses is strictly prohibited. In accordance with the law, we will resolutely investigate and deal with outstanding problems such as out-of-scope training, mixed quality of training, vulgar and illegal content, piracy and infringement, and so on. Strictly implement the relevant provisions of the Law on the Protection of minors, out-of-school training institutions shall not occupy national statutory holidays, rest days and cold and summer holidays to organize subject training. Training institutions shall not rob school teachers with high salaries; personnel engaged in subject training must have corresponding teacher qualifications and publish teacher qualification information in prominent locations of training institutions and websites; personal information of parents and students shall not be disclosed. Determine the charging items and standards of training institutions according to market demand, training costs and other factors, publicize them to the public and accept supervision. Full use of the "out-of-school training service contract for primary and secondary school students (demonstration text)". Further improve the regular investigation mechanism, timely grasp the situation and information of out-of-school training institutions, and improve the "blacklist and whitelist" system.

15. Strengthen the supervision of normal operation. Strictly control the excessive influx of capital into training institutions, and the financing and charges of training institutions should be mainly used for training business operations, and unfair competition by means of fictitious original prices, false discounts, false propaganda, etc., in order to promote business shall be resolutely prohibited, and industry monopoly behavior shall be resolutely investigated and dealt with in accordance with the rules and regulations. Online training should pay attention to the protection of students' eyesight, each class time is not more than 30 minutes, the course interval is not less than 10 minutes, and the training ends no later than 21:00. Actively explore the use of artificial intelligence technology to reasonably control students' continuous online training time. Online training institutions shall not provide and spread unhealthy learning methods such as "photo search" that inert students' thinking ability, affect students' independent thinking, and violate the laws of education and teaching. The employment of foreign personnel in China shall comply with the relevant provisions of the State, and it is strictly forbidden to employ foreign personnel abroad to carry out training activities.

Fifth, vigorously improve the quality of education and teaching to ensure that students learn well in school.

16. We will promote the quality and balanced development of compulsory education. All localities should consolidate the basic balanced achievements in compulsory education, actively carry out the work of creating high-quality and balanced compulsory education, promote the growth of new high-quality schools, and expand high-quality educational resources. We will actively promote collectivized schools, school district governance, and the building of urban and rural school communities, fully stimulate the vitality of running schools, improve the overall level of running schools, and accelerate the narrowing of the gap between urban and rural areas, regions, and schools.

17. Improve the quality of classroom teaching. The education department should guide schools to improve teaching management regulations, optimize teaching methods, strengthen teaching management, and improve students' learning efficiency in school. Schools should fully open the national curriculum, actively promote the convergence of preschool science, help students prepare for admission, teach strictly according to the zero starting point of curriculum standards, and ensure that students meet the academic quality standards set by the state. Schools shall not increase or decrease class hours, increase difficulty or speed up progress at will; reduce examination pressure, improve examination methods, and shall not conclude classes in advance to prepare for the examination, violate the rules, exceed the standard of examination questions, rank the examination, and so on; the examination results shall be classified and resolutely overcome the tendency of score-only.

18. Deepen the reform of enrollment in senior high schools. All localities should actively improve the high school enrollment mode based on the examination results of junior high school academic level, combined with comprehensive quality evaluation, and improve the examination methods and performance presentation methods according to the characteristics of different subjects. Insist on determining the examination on the basis of learning, further improve the proposition quality of the senior high school entrance examination, and prevent the problems of partial questions, strange questions and exceeding curriculum standards. We will gradually increase the proportion of high-quality ordinary high school enrollment indicators allocated to junior high schools in the region, standardize the enrollment order of ordinary high school students, and put an end to illegal enrollment and vicious competition.

19. Into the quality evaluation system. Local party committees and governments at all levels should establish a correct concept of political achievement, and it is strictly forbidden to set targets for further studies or unilaterally evaluate schools and teachers on the basis of enrollment rates. Conscientiously implement the guidelines for quality evaluation of compulsory education, incorporate the effectiveness of "double reduction" into the quality evaluation of compulsory education in counties and schools, and take students' participation in after-school services, extracurricular training and the reduction of training expenses as an important part of the evaluation.

VI. Strengthen supporting management and enhance the ability of support and guarantee

20. To ensure the after-school service conditions. All localities should, in accordance with the size of students and the establishment standards of teaching staff in primary and secondary schools, check and verify the establishment as a whole, and fully match the number of teachers. The provincial government should formulate measures to guarantee school after-school service funds, clarify relevant standards, and adopt financial subsidies, service fees or surrogate fees to ensure that funds are raised in place. The after-school service funds are mainly used to participate in the subsidies for after-school service teachers and related personnel. when determining the total amount of performance pay, the relevant departments should consider the factors of teachers' participation in after-school service, and put the amount of funds used for teachers' after-school service subsidies into the performance pay as an increment and set up corresponding projects, not as the base for the normal approval of the total amount of performance pay in the following year. For those who employ out-of-school personnel to provide after-school services, the after-school service subsidies may be managed according to labor fees. The performance of teachers participating in after-school service should be used as an important reference for the evaluation and appointment of professional titles, recognition and reward and the distribution of performance pay.

21. We will improve the mechanism of home-school-agency coordination. We should further clarify the responsibility of home-school education, strengthen family-school communication, innovate collaborative ways, and promote the construction of a collaborative education community. The education department should, in conjunction with the women's federation and other departments, run a good parent school or online family education guidance platform, promote the construction of community family education guidance centers and service sites, guide parents to establish a scientific concept of parenting, and rationally determine their children's growth expectations. strive to form a consensus on reducing the burden.

twenty-two。 Do a good job in training advertising control. Relevant central departments, local party committees and governments at all levels should strengthen the management of off-campus training advertisements to ensure that off-campus training advertisements are not published or broadcast on all kinds of billboards and network platforms in mainstream media, new media, public places and residential areas. Commercial advertising activities shall not be carried out in primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, and advertisements shall not be published or published in disguise by using teaching materials, auxiliary materials, exercise books, stationery, teaching aids, school uniforms and school buses of primary and secondary schools and kindergartens. In accordance with the law, seriously investigate and deal with all kinds of illegal advertising behaviors of out-of-school training that exaggerate the training effect, mislead the public's concept of education, and create parents' anxiety.

VII. Do a good job in pilot exploration to ensure that the governance work is carried out steadily.

23. Clarify the requirements of the pilot work. While comprehensively carrying out governance work, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Zhengzhou, Changzhi, Weihai and Nantong were identified as national pilot cities, and at least one prefecture and city was selected by other provinces to carry out pilot work. The pilot content is listed in articles 24, 25 and 26.

24. Resolutely reduce out-of-school training of disciplines. The re-examination and registration of existing discipline training institutions will gradually greatly reduce and solve the problem of excessive and excessive use; in accordance with the law, we will seriously investigate and deal with institutions that do not meet qualifications, chaotic management, take advantage of opportunities to make money, false propaganda, collusion with schools, and other serious problems.

25. Make rational use of resources inside and outside the school. Qualified schools are encouraged to provide after-school service activities of interest to students in their spare time for students to participate in on their own. If the after-school service can not meet the special needs of some students, such as developing interests and specialties, it is appropriate to introduce non-disciplinary extracurricular training institutions to participate in the after-school service, and the education department shall be responsible for organizing and selecting for the school to choose and use, and to establish an evaluation and withdrawal mechanism. training institutions that have problems such as low level of service, malicious recruitment of students, failure to provide services in accordance with regulations, and disturbing the order of school education, teaching and enrollment. Resolutely abolish the training qualification.

twenty-six。 Strengthen the supervision of training fees. Adhere to the public welfare nature of out-of-school training, fully consider its characteristics related to people's livelihood, incorporate fees for out-of-school training of disciplines in the stage of compulsory education into the management of government-guided prices, scientifically and rationally determine pricing methods, and clarify charging standards, we will resolutely curb excessive charges and excessive profit-seeking behavior. By means of third-party trusteeship and risk reserve, we should carry out risk control over the advance charges of out-of-school training institutions, strengthen the supervision of loans in the field of training, and effectively prevent the occurrence of problems such as "difficulty in refund" and "money running away".

VIII. Meticulous organization and implementation to achieve practical results

twenty-seven。 Make a comprehensive and systematic deployment. To strengthen the party's leadership over the "double reduction" work, the party committees and governments of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) should regard the "double reduction" work as a major livelihood project and put it on the agenda. It should be included in the key tasks of the leading group for the education work of the provincial (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government), refine and improve measures in the light of local reality, and ensure that the "double reduction" work is implemented. Party organizations in schools should conscientiously do a good job in teachers' ideological work and fully mobilize the enthusiasm and creativity of the broad masses of teachers. Off-campus training institutions should strengthen their own party building work and give full play to the role of party organizations as fighting bastions.

twenty-eight。 Clarify the responsibility of the department. The education department should do a good job of overall planning and coordination, strengthen the daily supervision of out-of-school training institutions together with relevant departments, and guide schools to do a good job of "double reduction"; propaganda and online information departments should strengthen the propaganda and guidance of public opinion; online information departments should cooperate with education, industry and information departments to do a good job in the supervision of online and extracurricular training; institutional establishment departments should timely supplement the establishment of teachers for primary and secondary schools. The development and reform departments should, in conjunction with the finance and education departments, formulate the standards of after-school service or surrogate fees for schools, and work with education and other departments to formulate charging guidance policies for out-of-school training institutions in pilot areas; financial departments should strengthen the guarantee of funds for after-school services; human resources and social security departments should do a good job in the verification and verification of teachers' performance salaries; civil affairs departments should do a good job in the registration of discipline training institutions. The market supervision department should do a good job in the registration of non-disciplinary training institutions and the supervision of fees, advertising, anti-monopoly and other aspects of out-of-school training institutions, strengthen the inspection of law enforcement, and seriously investigate and deal with illegal training activities in accordance with the rules and regulations in conjunction with educational departments; political and legal departments should do a good job in maintaining harmony and stability Public security departments should strengthen public security management in accordance with the law, jointly carry out intelligence information collection, research, early warning and prevention, and do a good job in emergency handling of incidents related to stability; the people's Bank of China, banking insurance supervision, and securities supervision departments are responsible for guiding banks and other institutions to do a good job in the risk management and control of pre-charging for off-campus training institutions, and to clean up and rectify the financing and listing of training institutions; other relevant departments shall take responsibility and implement them in accordance with their respective responsibilities.

twenty-nine。 We will jointly carry out special governance actions. We will establish a special coordination mechanism for the "double reduction" work, and focus on organizing and carrying out special governance actions. A special working agency for the coordination mechanism will be set up in the Ministry of Education to do a good job in overall planning and coordination and strengthen guidance on the work of various localities. All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) should improve their working mechanisms, establish special working institutions, and define the roadmap, timetable, and responsible persons for special governance actions in accordance with the "double reduction" work objectives and tasks. Highlight the focus of work, key links, weak areas, key objects, etc., and carry out comprehensive investigation and rectification. Violations of laws and regulations should be severely punished in accordance with the law, so as to form a warning and awe.

thirty。 Strengthen supervision, inspection, publicity and guidance. The implementation of the "double reduction" work and its actual results will be regarded as an important content of supervision, supervision, special rectification in disregard of the interests of the masses, and supervision and evaluation of the government's performance of its educational duties. Establish an accountability mechanism, and seriously investigate the responsibility of localities, departments, schools and relevant responsible persons in accordance with the law if the responsibilities are not implemented and the measures are not in place. All localities should set up supervision platforms and special reporting telephone numbers to smooth the channels for supervision and reporting by the masses. All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) should promptly sum up the good experiences and practices in the "double reduction" work and do a good job in publicity and promotion. The news media should adhere to the correct guidance of public opinion and create a good social atmosphere.

While all localities are doing a good job in the "double reduction" of students in the stage of compulsory education, they should also do a good job in the management of out-of-school training for preschool children and ordinary senior high school students at the age of 3 to 6, and shall not carry out online training for preschool children. It is strictly forbidden to carry out offline discipline training (including foreign languages) for preschool children in the name of preschool class, preschool connecting class and thinking training class. No longer approve new out-of-school training institutions for preschool children and out-of-school training institutions for ordinary high school students. The management of subject training institutions for ordinary senior high school students shall be carried out with reference to the relevant provisions of these opinions.

New Oriental Education & Technology Group and TAL Education Group responded quickly.

New Oriental Education & Technology Group responded in his official Weibo Corp on the evening of the 24th that New Oriental Education & Technology Group will resolutely support the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress and the Fifth Plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, and profoundly understand the significance of the "double reduction" work.

In the future work, we should strictly implement the relevant regulations, adhere to the essence of education and the original intention of educating people, follow the laws of education and the growth of young people, and implement the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people. Operate in accordance with the law, constantly improve the quality of education and the level of service, promote the all-round development of students, and meet the diversified educational needs of the society. Actively assume social responsibility, serve the overall situation of national development, and constantly contribute to the training of socialist builders and successors with all-round development morally, intellectually, physically, and physically.

TAL Education Group also responded that he would resolutely support the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress and the Fifth Plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, and profoundly understand the significance of the "double reduction" work.

As a science, technology and education enterprise, TAL Education Group adheres to the nature of education, strictly implements relevant regulations and requirements, and operates in accordance with the law. In the future, TAL Education Group will continue to adhere to the party's educational policy, implement the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, constantly raise the level of innovation in education, science and technology and the quality of education and teaching, and obey the overall situation of national development. efforts will be made to contribute to the training of socialist builders and successors with all-round development morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and physically.

Weibo Corp, the official of the online school of learning and thinking, also forwarded the content of TAL Education Group's official microblog.

The Ministry of Education answers a reporter's question on the document of "double reduction"

Q: please brief us on the background and process of the introduction of the opinions.

A: in recent years, in accordance with the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, various localities have carried out in-depth work to reduce the burden of homework and out-of-school training of students at the stage of compulsory education (hereinafter referred to as "double reduction"), and achieved positive results. However, one of the most prominent problems in compulsory education is that the burden on primary and secondary school students is too heavy, and the problems of myopia and utilitarianism have not been fundamentally solved. On the one hand, the burden of students' homework is still heavy, and the homework management is not perfect; on the other hand, out-of-school training is still overheated, the problem of over-standard training has not been fundamentally solved, and the fees for some off-campus training projects are high. There are greater risks and hidden dangers in the excessive influx of capital, and illegal and illegal behaviors such as "difficult to refund" and "roll money away" by training institutions occur from time to time. These problems lead to the heavy burden of students' homework and out-of-school training, and the heavy burden of parents' economy and energy, which seriously hedges the achievements of education reform and development, and the social response is strong. The CPC Central Committee attaches great importance to this and, standing at the strategic height of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, has made important decision-making arrangements for the "double reduction" work, requiring understanding and treatment from a political perspective, deepening reform from the perspective of system and mechanism, comprehensively implementing the party's educational policy, implementing the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, and promoting the all-round development and healthy growth of students.

In the process of drafting the "opinion", the drafting group successively went to Beijing, Shanghai and other places to conduct field research, and held forums of responsible comrades of educational administrative departments of some provinces, cities and counties, primary and secondary school principals, teachers, parents, experts and representatives of training institutions, to find out the basic situation, and quickly combed the work of reducing the burden on students in the school in recent years. The big data assessment of 18600 training institutions, 680000 students and 740000 parents in 10 provinces was carried out to analyze the problems and causes both inside and outside the school. Work with relevant departments to do a good job in research and judgment, clarify the cause and effect chain, clarify the responsibility chain, clarify the path chain. The main policies of the "opinions" have been fully demonstrated, and the opinions and suggestions of all parties have been widely adopted. The opinions were examined and adopted at the 19th meeting of the Central Committee for comprehensively deepening Reform and issued recently.

Q: what is the general idea of the "double reduction" work?

A: under the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, we should focus on building a high-quality education system, strengthen the dominant position of schools in educating people, deepen the governance of out-of-school training institutions, and resolutely stop acts that infringe upon the interests of the masses. effectively alleviate parents' anxiety and build a good ecology of education.

First, source control. Give full play to the role of the school as the main position, insist on teaching as much as possible, and strive to improve teaching quality, homework management and after-school service, so that students can study better and return to campus, "eat well" in school, and reduce the need to participate in out-of-school training. The second is system governance. Not only focus on homework and out-of-school training, but also make arrangements in strengthening after-school services, reducing examination pressure, improving quality evaluation, and creating a good ecology, systematically promoting the "double reduction" work in the whole chain. The third is comprehensive management. We should establish a special coordination mechanism for "double reduction" work, strengthen inter-departmental coordination, centrally organize and carry out special governance actions, form a joint force of effective work, and coordinate the forces of schools, society, and families to form a trinity pattern of educating people. The fourth is to govern according to law. We will thoroughly implement the legal spirit of the Law of the people's Republic of China on compulsory Education and the Law of the people's Republic of China on the Protection of minors, clarify various policies within the framework of the law, and ensure that there are laws to abide by and govern according to law.

Q: what is the overall goal of the "double reduction" work?

A: the overall goal of the "double reduction" work is divided into two aspects. In the school, the school education and teaching quality and service level are further improved, the assignment of homework is more scientific and reasonable, the after-school service basically meets the needs of students, and students study better and return to campus. In the out-of-school aspect, the training behavior of out-of-school training institutions is fully standardized, all kinds of chaos in off-campus training are basically eliminated, and the popularity of off-campus training is gradually cooled down.

Within one year, the overweight homework burden of students, the burden of out-of-school training, family education expenditure and the corresponding energy burden of parents were effectively reduced, all burdens were significantly reduced within three years, the quality of education was further improved, and people's satisfaction with education was significantly improved.

Q: how to lighten the burden of students' overweight homework?

Answer: homework is an important part of school education and teaching management and a necessary supplement to classroom teaching activities. Scientific, reasonable and effective homework can help students consolidate knowledge, improve ability, cultivate habits, help teachers test teaching effect, accurately analyze learning situation and improve teaching methods. At present, there are still some outstanding problems in some schools, such as too much homework, low quality, functional alienation and so on, which can not achieve the effect of reviewing the old and learning the new. it also takes up students' normal time for exercise, rest and entertainment, and one of the "double reduction" work is to reduce students' unreasonable homework burden.

The Ministry of Education regards "homework management" as an important part of the "five management" and issued the Circular on strengthening homework Management in compulsory Education Schools, based on giving full play to the educational function of homework and reducing the overweight homework burden of students. Ten specific measures have been put forward, and special supervision and inspection has been carried out on the implementation of various localities. On the basis of summarizing the previous work, the "double reduction" work puts forward some clear requirements, such as perfecting the homework management mechanism, classifying the total amount of homework, improving the quality of homework design, strengthening the guidance of homework completion, and so on, in order to effectively reduce the students' heavy homework burden. The first is to reduce the total amount of homework. By improving the homework management mechanism, improving the homework management methods, reasonably regulating the homework structure, and establishing a publicity system in the homework school, we should resolutely prevent students from having too much written homework. The second is to improve the quality of homework. Through the system design in line with age characteristics and learning rules, reflect the quality education-oriented basic homework, assign hierarchical homework, flexible homework and personalized homework, resolutely overcome mechanical and ineffective homework, put an end to repetitive and punitive homework. The third is to strengthen the responsibilities of teachers. Through teachers to earnestly perform homework guidance duties, guide primary school students to basically complete written homework in school, junior high school students to complete most of their written homework in school, and timely feedback, strengthen face-to-face explanation, and do a good job in answering questions, students are not required to correct their homework by themselves. Fourth, lighten the burden on parents. Assigning or correcting homework belongs to the category of school education, so the "opinion" requires that parents are strictly prohibited from assigning or correcting homework in a disguised form, and it is strictly forbidden to require parents to inspect and correct homework, so as not to add additional burden to parents.

Q: how to further improve the level of after-school service?

A: for a long time, the phenomenon of compulsory education schools, especially primary schools, leaving school at "03:30" has brought about the problem that it is difficult for parents to pick up their children before the end of the day, and some of them even send their children to out-of-school training institutions, increasing the burden outside the school. As a result, it has become a hot issue of widespread concern in society. After-school service can effectively solve the problem that it is difficult for parents to pick up and their children have no place to go, and can make full use of after-class time to provide rich and colorful service contents to provide students with space for learning and development. it also helps to better meet the individual development needs of students and promote the overall and healthy growth of students.

The Ministry of Education actively promotes after-school service and constantly improves the relevant management system and guarantee mechanism of after-school service. By the end of May 2021, a total of 102000 compulsory education schools across the country had carried out after-school services, with 64.963 million students and 4.656 million teachers participating in after-school services. Among them, the coverage rate of urban schools is 75.8%, the participation rate of students is 55.4%, the participation rate of teachers is 62%, and the coverage rate of after-school service schools in some big cities is more than 90%. Important progress has been made in after-school service. At the same time, there are still some problems in the after-school service of some schools, such as short after-school service time, inadequate financial guarantee, not enough attractiveness, and so on.

To this end, the opinions put forward clear requirements for strengthening after-school service to ensure service hours, improve service quality, and expand service channels, with the aim of enhancing students' and parents' sense of well-being, achievement, and sense of security. The first is to solve the worry that parents are unable to pick up and pick up during working hours. Extend the after-school service time, in principle, the end time of the after-school service is no earlier than the local normal working time, provide delayed trusteeship service for students with special needs, and junior middle school can set up self-study classes in the evening on weekdays. The second is to meet the individual needs of students. It can not only guide students to complete their homework seriously through after-class service time, but also provide tutoring and answering questions for students with learning difficulties, and expand learning space for students who have more than enough to learn. In addition, students' study and life can be enriched by carrying out rich and colorful popular science, style, art, labor, reading, interest groups and community activities. The third is to expand after-school service resources. After-school service is provided by hiring retired teachers, qualified social professionals or volunteers, organizing excellent teachers in the region to provide services to schools with weak teachers, and giving full play to social resources, give full play to the role of extracurricular activities such as the Children's Palace and youth activity centers in after-school services, so that students can enjoy more high-quality after-school service resources. The fourth is to increase the incentives for after-school service teachers and personnel. Through the overall examination and approval of the establishment, fully equipped with teachers, so that the school teachers are fully guaranteed. Through the formulation of the guarantee method of school after-school service funds, the after-school service funds are mainly used to participate in the subsidies for after-school service teachers and related personnel, implement the "flexible commuting" system for teachers, and strengthen the incentives for teachers and personnel to participate in after-school service.

Q: how to standardize off-campus training behavior in an all-round way?

A: in recent years, in accordance with the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the Ministry of Education, in conjunction with relevant departments, has carried out special management of off-campus training institutions and achieved phased results, but there are still some problems that have not been fundamentally solved. First, the total scale is huge. According to statistics, at present, the number of out-of-school training institutions for primary and secondary school students across the country is very large, which is basically the same as that of schools. If allowed to develop, it will form another education system outside the national education system, which will not only increase the extracurricular burden of students and the financial burden of parents, but also disrupt the normal education and teaching order of schools. Second, the situation of violations of laws and regulations is prominent. Due to the low cost of violation of laws and regulations, unlicensed institutions have been banned repeatedly, and illegal and illegal acts such as false propaganda, exceeding the standard in advance, arbitrary fees, and being linked to the enrollment of primary and secondary schools still exist, and incidents such as the closure of institutions and running away with money have occurred from time to time, seriously harming the legitimate rights and interests of the people. Third, the situation of being held hostage by capital is serious. In recent years, a large amount of capital has poured into the training industry, launched a "money-burning" war, advertised everywhere, carried out "indiscriminate" marketing to the whole society, and various kinds of excessive propaganda of selling anxiety, which violated the public welfare attribute of education and destroyed the normal ecology of education. To this end, the "opinion" mainly puts forward the following measures in view of these outstanding problems.

First, adhere to strict examination and approval organs. The "opinion" requires that all localities no longer approve new off-campus discipline training institutions for students in the stage of compulsory education, existing discipline training institutions are uniformly registered as non-profit organizations, and online discipline training institutions are changed to the examination and approval system. For non-disciplinary training institutions, the "opinions" require all localities to distinguish between sports, culture and arts, science and technology, and other categories, clarify the corresponding competent departments, classify and formulate standards, and strictly examine and approve them.

Second, capitalization is strictly prohibited. The "opinion" requires that all discipline training institutions shall not be listed for financing, that capitalization operation is strictly prohibited, that listed companies may not invest in discipline training institutions through stock market financing, and that they may not purchase the assets of discipline training institutions by issuing shares or paying cash. Those who have violated the rules should be cleaned up and rectified.

The third is to establish a training content filing and supervision system. Training institutions mainly use self-compiled materials, while some English training institutions use overseas teaching materials. The "opinion" requires that over-standard and advanced training is strictly prohibited, non-disciplinary training institutions are strictly prohibited from engaging in disciplinary training, and the provision of overseas educational courses is strictly prohibited. in accordance with the law, we will resolutely investigate and deal with outstanding problems such as out-of-scope training, mixed quality of training, vulgar and illegal content, and piracy and infringement. The Ministry of Education will issue the measures for the Management of out-of-School training Materials for Primary and Middle School students, which puts forward requirements for the management of training materials.

The fourth is to strictly control the opening time of discipline training institutions. The opinion requires that out-of-school training institutions shall not occupy national statutory holidays, rest days and cold and summer holidays to organize subject training.

Fifth, discipline fees are included in the government-guided price. After the discipline training institutions are uniformly registered as non-profit organizations, their fees shall be brought into the government-guided price management, and the pricing methods shall be scientifically and rationally determined by local governments, and the charging standards shall be clearly defined, which shall first be implemented in the pilot areas, and then gradually popularized throughout the country.

In view of the new situation and new problems in the management of off-campus training institutions, the state will further improve the relevant laws, regulations and systems.

Q: how to improve the quality of school education and ensure that students learn well in school?

A: to reduce the heavy extracurricular burden of primary and secondary school students, we should not only strictly manage out-of-school training institutions, but also improve the quality of school education, let students learn well in school, ease social anxiety, and reduce the impulse of parents to send their children to attend out-of-school training. The "opinions" clearly put forward the following measures:

First, it is necessary to expand quality resources for compulsory education. Promoting balanced development and reducing the inter-school differences between urban and rural areas and regions, especially in the same region, have played a vital role in reducing the academic burden. By the end of 2020, a total of 26 provinces across the country have determined through national supervision and evaluation that 2809 counties (cities and districts) have achieved basically balanced development of compulsory education at the county level, accounting for about 96.8% of the total number of county-level administrative units in the country. The "opinion" calls for actively carrying out the work of creating high-quality and balanced compulsory education, promoting the growth of new high-quality schools, actively promoting collectivization of running schools, school district governance, and the construction of urban and rural school communities, and expanding high-quality educational resources. At the same time, we should strengthen and optimize free online learning services, provide high-quality special educational resources and learning resources covering all grades and disciplines, and expand the utilization and coverage of high-quality educational resources.

Second, we should improve the quality of classroom teaching. The classroom is the main position of education and teaching, and we should ask for efficiency from "45 minutes". The Ministry of Education has actively strengthened the top-level design of education and teaching, carried out the selection, popularization and application of national excellent teaching achievements in basic education, and set up the first basic Education Teaching steering Committee of the Ministry of Education to strengthen guidance to various localities. Efforts will be made to improve the education and teaching policy guarantee system. The opinion requires the education department to guide schools to improve teaching management regulations and improve students' learning efficiency in school. Schools should fully open the national curriculum, strictly according to the curriculum standard zero starting point teaching, so as to teach as much as possible.

The third is to reduce the pressure of examination. In view of the problems such as excessive number of examinations, single examination form, low test quality and "score-only" tendency in the current stage of compulsory education, the "opinion" requires schools not to finish the examination in advance to prepare for the examination, violate the rules, exceed the standard of examination questions, rank the examination, and so on. The examination results present a hierarchical system to reduce the examination pressure of students. The Ministry of Education is developing relevant documents on examination management and making further arrangements for this. In addition, students should also establish a positive and correct learning attitude, develop good study habits and master the necessary decompression methods. In family life, parents should create a good family environment and harmonious family atmosphere for their children, guide their children to be optimistic and enterprising, and correctly face the gains and losses in the examination.

The fourth is to seriously investigate and deal with teachers' paid supplementary classes outside the school. Although teachers' paid supplementary lessons outside school is an individual bad phenomenon, it seriously affects the overall image of teachers. We must adopt the attitude of "zero tolerance", strengthen the construction of teachers' ethics, improve the daily supervision mechanism of teachers, and improve the evaluation system of teachers' ethics and morality. constantly improve the professional quality of teachers. The "opinion" calls for strengthening the investigation and punishment of teachers' paid supplementary lessons outside the school, and finding that they will be investigated and dealt with together, until teachers' qualifications will be revoked, forming a warning and deterrent, and cutting off economic chains such as illegal extra-curricular supplementary lessons. At the same time, it is strictly forbidden for out-of-school training institutions to employ in-service teachers and resolutely revoke their school license once found.

Q: how can parents and society cooperate to do a good job of "double reduction"?

A: schools should establish a leadership and coordination mechanism for family education, standardize the establishment of parent schools, improve the daily operation mechanism, be equipped with a full-time (part-time) professional team for family education guidance, and strengthen professional knowledge training. It is necessary to provide family education guidance, consultation and guidance to parents by means of parent courses and parent lecture halls, online and offline, so as to guide parents to master scientific educational concepts and methods.

Parents and students get along day and night, and they are the teachers who teach their children by deeds and deeds, so it is very important to perform the duty of legal guardianship. One is to keep in touch with home and school. Actively participate in parent-teacher meetings and parent schools, take the initiative to communicate with teachers, understand students' learning and physical and mental conditions, formulate targeted home-school linkage education programs, and build a harmonious home-school relationship. The second is to renew the concept of child rearing. Understand the law of physical and mental growth of children, improve their own quality and ability of education, rationally plan the direction of their future development, and not blindly send their children to participate in out-of-school training. The third is a harmonious family atmosphere. Pay close attention to the changes of children's thoughts and emotions, listen to their feelings, be their friends, form a good mode of communication and interaction, and help children solve their problems. The fourth is to guide students to make good use of their time at home. Urge children to go to bed on time to ensure adequate sleep. Appropriately arrange housework, strengthen physical exercise, carry out parent-child reading and so on. Strengthen the supervision of children's online behavior, timely find, stop and correct children's Internet addictive behavior.

Society is the general environment of education, and we should give full play to the resources of all parties to provide an important platform for students to broaden their horizons, develop in an all-round way and practice. One is to provide venues and resources for off-campus activities. Venues for off-campus activities at all levels, such as youth palaces, youth activity centers, research and practical education bases, museums, and so on, should adhere to the principle of public welfare and increase the opening hours, especially after 03:30 in the afternoon, weekends, winter and summer vacations, and so on. it should be open to primary and secondary school students. The second is to explore community education services. The community should build a student activity center to provide a place for students to participate in social practice, community activities and voluntary service after class. The third is to publicize the concept of science education. All kinds of news media should actively publicize the concept of scientific education, strive to get rid of utilitarian phenomena such as "preemptive culture", do not hype the ranking of examination scores and the enrollment rate, and create a good atmosphere for social education.

Q: why did you choose some areas to carry out the pilot work? What are the main contents and requirements of the pilot project?

A: the work of "double reduction" involves a wide range of areas and is very complicated. for this reason, nine regions, including Beijing and Shanghai, have been selected as pilot projects. First, because the impact of the pilot areas is relatively large, it has a bearing on the overall effectiveness. Second, there is a certain working basis for carrying out "double reduction" in the pilot areas. Third, the first trial is conducive to reducing the cost of reform, through the pilot work in some areas, we can accumulate experience, find problems, and provide advanced experience and typical cases that can be used for reference and replicated in the later stage of promotion throughout the country.

On the basis of the full implementation of the "double reduction" work requirements in the pilot areas, pilot projects will be carried out mainly in the following three aspects. First, the existing online and offline discipline training institutions should be comprehensively investigated, re-examined and registered to solve the problem of excessive and excessive; second, we can explore the appropriate introduction of non-disciplinary extracurricular training institutions to participate in after-school services, and the education department is responsible for organizing and selecting, for schools to choose and use, and to establish an evaluation and withdrawal mechanism. The third is to strengthen the supervision of training fees, bring subject training into the government guidance price, and control the pre-charging of off-campus training institutions by means of third-party trusteeship and risk reserve, so as to prevent the occurrence of problems such as "difficult to refund" and "money to run away".

Q: how to ensure the effectiveness of the "double reduction" work?

A: the work of "double reduction" is a systematic project, involving many interest groups and the responsibilities of many departments. Only by the high-level co-ordination of the party committee and the government and the cooperation of various departments can we ensure that various measures can be effectively implemented. First, strengthen the party's leadership over the "double reduction" work, and the party committees and governments of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) should regard the "double reduction" work as a major livelihood project and put it on the agenda. It should be included in the key tasks of the leading group for the education work of the party committees of the provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government). The second is to clarify the responsibilities of the departments, put forward clear work requirements for the departments involved in the "double reduction" work, improve the implementation mechanism of the responsibilities of relevant departments, and achieve a clear division of labor, due diligence, and coordination. Third, strengthen supervision, inspection, publicity and guidance, and implement the work and actual results of the "double reduction" as an important part of supervision, supervision, special rectification in disregard of the interests of the masses, and supervision and evaluation of the government's performance of its educational duties. An accountability mechanism should be established, and localities, departments, schools and relevant responsible persons who fail to implement their responsibilities and measures should be seriously investigated and held accountable in accordance with the law.