An Introduction of Chongqing and Its Education

1. An Introduction of Chongqing and Its Education

2. Information of Chongqing • 3,000 years of history • Well known historic and cultural city • Capital of China during World War II • Only Municipality Directly under Central Government in Central and West China (1997) • 82,000 km2 • 32 million population • Industrial base in Central and West China

3. Future targets for Chongqing by 2012 • To build Chongqing into the economic growth engine for West China and economic, trade, commercial and financial center on the upper reaches of Yangtze River. • To build Chongqing into a comprehensive traffic hub, cultural height, innovation center, education and human resource plateau and international metropolis.

4. Statistics on Chongqing’s Education(by the end of 2010) The total number of schools is 12 thousand with above 6 million students.

5. Achievements • Compulsory 9 years free education for both urban and rural areas • In 2010, we popularized high school and secondary vocational education • Gross entrance rate to universities and colleges reaches 27%

6. Higher Education’s Achievement • Silk Worm Genomic Framework • 3G Mobile Communication Chips and Terminals • High-intensity Focused Ultra-sonic Treatment System

7. Future Tasks for Education By the year of 2020 • Gross entrance rate to higher education reaches 50%, and become education plateau in West China and education center on the upper reaches of Yangtze River.

8. Challenges Chongqing Education Facing • The lack of balance between fast socio-economic development and the supply of quality human resource • The need to match fast economic globalization with education internationalization. • The mechanism to train and attract innovative personnel with international vision and experience cannot satisfy the need for an international metropolis.

9. Measures to internationalization • Universities and colleges serve as the locomotive to lead education internationalization • In the area of general education we will customize internationalization according to different types and categories • Identify key areas and courses for a breakthrough in vocational education and training • Encourage intergovernmental and institute-enterprise education cooperation • Introducing quality overseas educational resources • Broaden the scope of faculty and student exchanges • Cooperate with foreign counterparts to set up internationalized courses • Bring in internationalized school management • Culture and language exchange

10. Possible Fields of Cooperation • Regular forum, conferences and seminars • Intergovernmental education exchange projects • Extensive sister school relationship • Sharing education resources (faculty, textbooks, materials, virtue classroom, summer courses, etc.) • Joint degrees and joint courses • Faculty and student exchanges • Curriculum development • Confucius Institute and classroom

11. Summery • The economic globalization deepens the inter-relatedness of market and everyday life in the whole world. It encourages the cross-border movement of human resources, fund and finance, commodities, service, knowledge, technology, and information. And it optimizes the allocation of key production factors and resources. At the same time economic globalization requires more exchanges on education resources, which will force each and every country to open its education market to facilitate education internationalization.

12. Welcome to Chongqing!