Placing a premium on improved education
China DailyQingdao has prioritized improving the basic education of its residents in recent years, including introducing a series of measures to enhance support for constructing a higher-quality learning system. In recognizing that achieving educational equity is tied to improving basic resources, Qingdao has significantly increased its number of school spaces and optimized the layout of campuses, providing residents with more diversified educational resources. Qingdao has recruited outstanding professionals for its teaching staff and implemented a five-tier training program involving new teachers, excellent young teachers, backbone teachers, renowned principals and educational experts. In another breakthrough, according to Tang Chao, director of Qingdao's Laoshan education and sports bureau, the district has focused on new quality productive forces in pioneering "education digitization". Laoshan district has issued a three-year action plan for the digital transformation of education, upgrading smart educational facilities in 41 schools and providing more than 30,000 students in grades 3-9 with free smart learning devices.