| At present, there appear two historical changes in the development of agriculture and the countryside: one is that the agricultural development has stepped into a new stage, during which the situation of supply and demand has changed historically; the other change is that after China entering into the WTO, the exterior environment of the development of agriculture and countryside economy has changed historically. The two changes need us to transfer the agriculture development onto the orbit, which depend on the development of science and technology and the improvement of the laborers' quality. Farmers are the main body of agricultural production and countryside construction, whose science and technology quality is closely linked to the national economy and social progress. Because farmers whose quality is still very low account for a large proportion of the whole population in Shanxi province. The government has developed several forms of education: adult education, vocational education, Green Certificate education and learning through broadcasting and TV, and has made some achievement. However, in the new situation which gives us new assignment and new demand, the farmers' comprehensive quality still cannot adapt to the demand for development, which has become the obstacle which prevents agriculture and the countryside economy from developing. Agricultural long distance learning, as one part of agricultural education, consists of adult education, vocational education and learning through broadcasting and TV, which realize the education for the farmers for life. So developing the agricultural long distance education and improving the farmers' sci-tech quality level has become the strategic choice for developing agriculture and countryside economy in Shanxi Province. Shanxi Agricultural Broadcasting and TV School (SXABTS) is the main body for agricultural long distance learning, which develop long distance education by modern medias of broadcasting, TV and internet. Through 20 years' construction, SXABTS has developed into systematic schools on four levels: 1 school on provincial level, 11 schools on prefecture level, lllschools on county level and 600 schools on town level. We have 867 full-time teachers and staff and develop elementary education, technical secondary education, post technical secondary education, junior college education, undergraduate courses education and postgraduate courses education. Facing the new situation, the new demand for education and especially the fast development of information technology, how the SXABTS realize its great-leap-forward development. The author finished the paper after serious and considerate collection, arrangement and analysis. The paper not only has theoretical significance to the development of agricultural distance learning, but also has practical value for improving the farmers' sci-tech cultural level, promoting the strategic adjustment of countryside economy structure, and at the same time increasing the farmers' income and building the better-off society. In the paper, the author compared and analyzed the distance learning of China and foreign countries, giving detailed analysis of the stages of development and actual state of the agricultural distance learning in Shanxi province, while defining the background of provincial situation, agricultural background, education background, background of farmers and SXBTS, on the basis of which the author put forward the strategic thoughts, strategic principles, strategic aims, strategic planning in the new situation, and at last elaborated the evolutionary path for the long distance learning in Shanxi Province. |
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