Shanghai will promote ＂organized scientific research＂ and improve the efficiency of scientific and technological research

　　Zhongxin Online Hai, May 4 (Reporter Chen Jing) Zhou Yaming, director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, said on the 4th that Shanghai will closely combine the high-quality development of education with the construction of an international science and technology center and a highland of high-level talents, cultivate top-notch innovative talents, and build a close collaborative innovation system in Industry-University-Research, with strong education, strong talents and strong science and technology to help strengthen the industry, economy and city.

　　Regarding the progress of basic research and original innovation in Shanghai universities in recent years, Zhou Yaming pointed out that universities here have built a number of major innovation platforms and undertaken a number of major research tasks around leading industries such as biomedicine and artificial intelligence. Next, the education department in Shanghai should make classified policies on basic research and tackling key problems in science and technology, and improve the original level of basic research by encouraging the free exploration mode of "good questions" and "high-risk questions". We will vigorously promote "organized scientific research" to improve the efficiency of task-oriented scientific and technological research and achieve major original achievements and breakthroughs in key core technologies. At present, there are 64 colleges and universities in Shanghai with about 800,000 students, including 50,000 doctoral students, 200,000 master students and 550,000 junior college students.

　　On the same day, in the "People’s Livelihood Interview" in Shanghai in 2023, Zhou Yaming responded to many topics of public concern. Regarding the digital transformation of education, Zhou Yaming said that the digital transformation of education is an important field of urban digital transformation. The digital transformation of education has the advantages of breaking through time and space restrictions, rapid replication and dissemination, rich presentation methods and outstanding intelligent personality, which is an important support for promoting educational fairness and improving educational quality. He introduced that the construction of digital teaching system in primary and secondary schools is an important scene of digital transformation in the basic education stage. This year, related application experiments have been rolled out in more than 300 schools in five experimental areas in Shanghai, involving 100,000 students and 5,000 teachers, covering 24 subjects from primary school to high school. Zhou Yaming pointed out that school education should actively promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and education and teaching, and enhance the radiation service scope of quality education resources. It is reported that at present, there are 3,446 schools in Shanghai’s national education system, with more than 3.08 million students.

　　Since January 1st this year, the Regulations of Shanghai Municipality on Preschool Education and Nursery Services (hereinafter referred to as "Regulations") has been officially implemented, attracting a lot of attention. Zhou Yaming said that as an important part of building a "15-minute community life circle" in Shanghai, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission will build high-quality resources for nursery services at home, create more high-quality kindergartens, warm "baby houses" and scientific parenting family guidance stations at home, and ease the pressure of childbirth, parenting and education.

　　Talking about strictly following the laws of children’s cognitive growth and physical and mental development, Zhou Yaming pointed out: "We should promote the strict implementation of the Regulations and ensure that kindergartens do not organize any examinations and tests, and do not engage in disciplinary and elementary courses. At the same time, we will continue to convey the scientific concept of parenting and growth to parents of young children through various channels and methods, so that children can have a healthy and happy childhood. " He revealed that this year, Shanghai will start the construction of high-quality kindergartens. From this year to 2025, Shanghai will strive to build all public kindergartens into high-quality kindergartens in three years.