Study On Educational Development In The People-Centered Urbanization Process

Urbanization is the inevitable choice for China to comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society, complete the socialist modernization cause and make China Dream come true. Now urbanization in China has gone on to the new stage of transformation where quality improvement is the priority. As directed in the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the CPC, China will firmly take the new-type urbanization road with Chinese characteristics. "We will make efforts to deepen people-centered urbanization," which is further pointed out in the Recommendations for the 13th Five-year Plan for Economic and Social Development by Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Urbanization is centered on people, and its essential pursuit is all-round development of human beings. The key to people-centered urbanization is education which, as the "green engine" of urbanization, plays a role of gathering people, supporting them, modeling their characters, leading them and giving them demonstration during the urbanization progress. Educational development in the people-centered urbanization progress is not only a concern in education, but an economic and social development issue that matters in the large. Speeding up the educational development in the urbanization progress to achieve the integration of urban and rural education embodies the efforts to deeply practice the spirits of the important speeches of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the five development concepts (innovation, harmonization, green, openness and sharing), and meanwhile it is an urgent need to promote synchronous development of industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, and to comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society.This thesis, theoretically based on the urban-rural relation and educational development of Marxism, is prepared in line with the study designs from findings to solution, theory to practice, generality to concrete, and by combining domestic researches with foreign researches, the past with the present, and the qualitative method with the quantitative method. With an integrated employment of theory in economics and other related disciplines, the author has a relatively comprehensive and systematic analysis and argumentation in regards to educational development in the people-centered urbanization progress, and therefrom generates the logic relation between people-centered urbanization and educational development and the theoretical analytical framework. With a case study of Fujian Province, the thesis shows a comprehensive analysis of the urbanization development history and its current characteristics, and has in-depth exploration on education characteristics and trends at different stages of urbanization. Specifically the author analyzes urbanization development modes under different themes to a relatively comprehensive extent based on the concrete practice of 8 comprehensive reform pilots (county/city) of new-type urbanization in Fujian Province, indicating both different and common characteristics of different urbanization development modes under different themes, and their influence and enlightenment on education. Furthermore, the status quo and main questions of educational development in the urbanization progress are dissected from compulsory education, vocational education and training, community education, and higher education; after that, suggestions on how to promote path orientation and system/mechanism reforms of educational development in Fujian's urbanization progress are given at both internal and external levels of educational system through actively learning experience and drawing lessons from such developed countries as UK and Korea and developing countries like India about the matter in question.