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Beijing Unveils Family Education Guidance Center

Date:2023-3-21 16:13:31    Views:

To further study, publicize and implement guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), comprehensively act on important discourses by General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping on family, family traditions and family building, and ensure full implementation of the law on family education promotion, Beijing Women's Federation (BWF) has strengthened institutional building of family-education-guidance services in both rural and urban areas. This was done in collaboration with the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, the Beijing Municipal Working Committee on Children and Women, the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, the Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission and the Beijing Municipal Working Committee on Caring for the Next Generation.

A ceremony was held on March 17 to inaugurate the Beijing Family Education Guidance Center and a family education symposium was held at the College of Preschool Education of Capital Normal University. Zhao Hongwei, vice-president of the BWF, presided over the event.

In his remarks, Meng Fanhua, Party secretary of Capital Normal University, extended congratulations to the Beijing Family Education Guidance Center on its establishment. He said the university will do its best to push for the building of the municipal-level family-education-guidance center and the innovative development of the city's family education work under the guidance of the Beijing Municipal Family Education Guidance Commission.

Meng Fanhua, Party secretary of Capital Normal University, gives a speech at the event.

 

Zhang Yajun (L), secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group and president of the Beijing Women's Federation, and Meng Fanhua, Party secretary of Capital Normal University, jointly unveil the Beijing Family Education Guidance Center.

 

With the support of the Beijing Municipal Family Education Guidance Commission, an experts committee was inaugurated to promote systematic and professional development of family-education-guidance services with scientific nature. The experts committee was headed by Zhang Zhiyong, member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee and director of a professor with Beijing Normal University. It is composed of professionals from the sectors of education, psychology and law.

Experts receive letters of appointment.

 

In her speech, Su Yanjie, vice-director of the experts committee on family education and a professor from the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences at Peking University, said that the guidance on family education requires the complete participation of people at different ages in various scenarios and that the building of family-education-guidance systems with Beijing's characteristics demands cross-discipline integration. Kang Liying, dean of the College of Preschool Education at Capital Normal University and head of Beijing Family Education Guidance Center, said that the newly founded center will position itself in the building of a high-quality team, providing professional services and enhancing its influence in family education sector in a drive to accumulate scientific, professional and applicable experience and practices.

Su Yanjie and Kang Liying give speeches during the event.

 

In its next step, the Beijing Municipal Family Education Guidance Commission will make full use of its multiple roles in the study and implementation of guiding principles of the 20th CPC National Congress, the cultivation of talents for the Party and the country, the implementation of the law on family education promotion, the improvement of family-school-society collaborative education mechanism, and advance institutional building of family education with top standards.

During the event, Lei Li, a professor with the School of Education at Renmin University of China; Hong Ming, deputy director of China Youth & Children Research Center's teenager research branch; Wu Shen, director-general of Guangqumen Middle School Group; and representatives from district-level family-education-guidance centers in Chaoyang and Shunyi, held discussions over the building of family-school-society collaborative education mechanism and the expansion of family education guidance service in both rural and urban areas.

So far, Beijing has become the country's first city to establish a "114N" family-education-guidance system covering both rural and urban areas. The BWF has worked with six municipal authorities to found the Beijing Municipal Family Education Guidance Commission. The experts committee on family education has been set up to pool wisdom and strengths of professionals from different social sectors. A four-tier family-education-guidance system has also been in place from the municipal level to the village level. In addition, the capital city has fully leveraged all types of social resources available to promote the high-quality development of family education. 

The family-education-guidance system and family-education-guidance centers at municipal and district levels have all been established. Capital Normal University will focus its efforts on the research and development of public services, personnel training, the formulation of professional standards and rules, and family education studies. Meanwhile, Beijing Open University will intensify its efforts to advance the organization of whole-procedure, in-advance training with companion service, the availability of family-education-guidance services for parents, and the building of information platforms.

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