According to the website of the Ministry of Education on January 21st, recently, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Promoting the Qualification Reform of Primary and Secondary School Teachers for Normal Students, implementing the decision of the the State Council Executive Meeting, continuing to deepen the "streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services" reform, and continuing to carry out the reform of the examination-free accreditation of normal students in relevant colleges and universities on the basis of the reform of the examination-free accreditation of education graduate students and public-funded normal students.

　　The notice pointed out that according to the conditions for running a normal school and the audit results of running a school, the scope of the examination-free certification reform is delineated. Relevant normal majors in colleges and universities that joined the pilot provinces of the national primary and secondary school teacher qualification examination reform in 2017 and before can participate in the examination-free certification reform from 2022.

　　The circular requires that institutions of higher learning that implement the examination-free accreditation reform should establish and improve the assessment system of normal students’ educational and teaching ability, and classify and determine the teaching sections and disciplines according to the talent training objectives of normal majors. It is necessary to increase investment in normal education, integrate resources, and constantly improve the quality of training normal professionals. We should conscientiously do a good job in the issuance of the "Certificate of Teachers’ Professional Ability for Normal Students" and the submission of relevant data for the identification of exemption from examination. Education administrative departments at all levels should strengthen supervision, strengthen the quality monitoring of the training process and results of normal students, and guide colleges and universities to do a good job in the assessment and identification of normal students’ educational and teaching ability.

　　The notice stressed that if the relevant colleges and universities arbitrarily expand the scope of exemption from examination, or fail to issue the "Professional Ability Certificate for Teachers of Normal Students" for unqualified students, or neglect their duties or engage in malpractices for personal gain in the reform of exemption from examination, they will cancel the qualification of exemption from examination for relevant normal majors in accordance with the regulations, reduce the enrollment indicators of relevant normal majors in schools, and investigate the responsibilities of the main responsible persons and related personnel of schools.

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　　Learning thoughts, strengthening party spirit, emphasizing practice and building new achievements are the general requirements for studying and implementing the theme education of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era. To firmly grasp this general requirement, we should deeply understand its significance, comprehensively grasp its rich connotation, and effectively run it through the whole process of theme education, so as to promote the theme education to achieve tangible results.

　　Focusing on leading cadres at or above the county level, it is an important measure to carry out in-depth study and implementation of the theme education of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era throughout the Party. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed at the theme education work conference: "This theme education should be firmly grasped ‘ Learn ideas, strengthen party spirit, emphasize practice and make new contributions ’ The general requirements. " To firmly grasp the general requirements of theme education, we must deeply understand its significance, comprehensively grasp its rich connotation, and effectively run it through the whole process of theme education, so as to promote the theme education to achieve tangible results.

　　Deeply understand the significance of the general requirements of theme education

　　Learning thoughts, strengthening party spirit, emphasizing practice and making new contributions profoundly reflect our Party’s consistent requirements of adhering to the combination of understanding and practice, linking theory with practice, and unifying the transformation of the subjective world with the transformation of the objective world, which is highly ideological, targeted and instructive. To firmly grasp the general requirements of theme education, we should deeply understand its significance from the level of integrating learning, thinking and application and unifying knowledge, belief and practice.

　　Education guides the vast number of party member and cadres to thoroughly clean up the ideological roots, consolidate the foundation and cultivate the yuan. Having the guidance of Marxist scientific theory is the root of our party’s firm belief and historical initiative. Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era is Marxism in contemporary China and Marxism in the 21st century. We must persist in forging ahead with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era. Carrying out the general requirements of theme education aims to promote the study and implementation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, which is an inevitable requirement for comprehensively strengthening the party’s ideological construction in the new era and new journey, so that the whole party can always maintain a unified thought, firm will, coordinated actions and strong combat effectiveness. Firmly grasping the general requirements of theme education is conducive to educating and guiding party member and cadres to deeply understand the decisive significance of "two establishment", enhancing "four consciousnesses", strengthening "four self-confidences" and achieving "two maintenance", constantly improving political judgment, political understanding and political execution, and always maintaining a high degree of consistency with the CPC Central Committee with the supreme leader as the core.

　　Education guides the vast number of party member and cadres to boost their spirits and be determined to forge ahead. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Studying and implementing Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era is the fundamental requirement for the new era and new journey to create a new situation in career development." In the new era and new journey, faced with complicated international and domestic situations, arduous and arduous tasks of reform, development and stability, and all kinds of uncertain and unpredictable risk challenges, it is urgent for party member and cadres, especially leading cadres at all levels, to further study and implement the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, which is the main consideration for the CPC Central Committee to decide to carry out this theme education throughout the party. The general requirement of theme education is to unify the party’s innovative theory study, party spirit cultivation, practice training and innovation bureau, which is conducive to educating and guiding the party member and cadres to establish a correct view of power, achievements and career, enhance their sense of responsibility and mission, continuously improve their ability to promote high-quality development, serve the masses, prevent and resolve risks, and strengthen the cultivation of struggle spirit and struggle skills. This provides a path guide for better transforming the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era into a powerful force for strengthening ideals, tempering party spirit, guiding practice and promoting work.

　　Education guides Party organizations at all levels and party member and cadres to continuously enhance the Party’s ability of self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation and self-improvement. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "It is necessary to strike while the iron is hot. The key to China’s success lies in the party. The key lies in the party’s management of the party and its comprehensive and strict management." While fully affirming the remarkable achievements made by the party and the state, Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Party pointed out that there are still some shortcomings in our work and many difficulties and problems, such as "some party member and cadres lack the spirit of responsibility, their fighting skills are not strong, their spirit of hard work is insufficient, and formalism and bureaucracy are still outstanding". The general requirements of theme education reflect the thinking and methods of building souls, enhancing wisdom, rectifying the wind and promoting work by learning, which is conducive to educating and guiding the vast number of party member and cadres to carry forward the spirit of self-revolution. In accordance with the general requirements of theme education, Party organizations at all levels and the vast number of party member and cadres should check the deficiencies, find the gaps, be clear about the direction, accept political physical examination, clean up the political dust, correct the behavioral deviation, and solve the outstanding problems in impure thinking and organization. Only in this way can we continuously enhance the Party’s abilities of self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation and self-improvement, so that our Party will always be full of vigor and vitality and become the strong leadership core of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause.

　　Fully grasp the rich connotation of the general requirements of theme education

　　The general requirement of theme education is a closely linked, interconnected and internally unified whole. We should fully grasp the rich connotation of the general requirements of theme education and be clear about every aspect of it.

　　To study thought is to comprehensively study and understand the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. Every step forward in the party’s theoretical innovation, the theoretical armed forces will follow. To comprehensively study and understand the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, we should not only comprehensively and systematically grasp the basic viewpoints and scientific system of this important thought, but also grasp the world outlook and methodology of this important thought, and adhere to and make good use of the standpoints and methods that run through it, and also integrate the study and understanding of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era with the study of the basic principles of Marxism. With the study of the history of the Party, the history of New China, the history of reform and opening up, and the history of socialist development, with the rich practice of great struggle, construction of great projects, promotion of great undertakings, and realization of great dreams in the new era, we can accurately grasp the theoretical logic, historical logic, and practical logic of this important thought, so as to continuously enhance the political identity, ideological identity, theoretical identity, and emotional identity of the Party’s innovation theory, and consciously use the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era to guide all work.

　　Strengthening Party spirit means consciously transforming the subjective world with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era. Party spirit is the cornerstone for party member and cadres to establish themselves, establish their careers, make their own statements and establish themselves. The firmness in party spirit cannot be separated from the firmness in theory. Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era not only contains the important thought of the Party governing the country, but also runs through the requirements of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people’s political character, value pursuit, spiritual realm and work style. To consciously transform the subjective world with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era, we must profoundly understand a series of requirements of this important thought, such as strengthening ideals and beliefs, enhancing ideological realm, strengthening party spirit training, etc., unify understanding principles, seeking truth, and being reasonable, build a solid foundation of faith, supplement the calcium of spirit, and keep the rudder of thought steady, and always maintain the political nature of communist party people.

　　Emphasizing practice means consciously practicing the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. The purpose of studying the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era is to apply it. Consciously practicing the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, we should adhere to the style of study of integrating theory with practice, and adhere to the orientation of problem, practice and demand, so as to truly turn the world outlook, methodology and standpoint and method of this important thought into our own ideological weapon. It is necessary to closely integrate the new era, new practice and new requirements, closely integrate thoughts and work practice, and more consciously use this important thought to guide and solve practical problems, transform the objective world and promote career development. In this way, we can actively change in practice, solve various contradictions in economic and social development and party building, prevent and resolve major risks, and promote Chinese modernization.

　　To build new achievements is to learn the wisdom and strength of striving for progress from Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era. Realizing the goal and task of the new era and new journey puts forward new and higher requirements for the party’s ability to lead socialist modernization, and puts forward new and higher requirements for the mental state, ability and quality, and style image of leading cadres at all levels. To learn the wisdom and strength of striving for progress from the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, we must master the leadership methods, thinking methods and working methods contained in it, constantly improve our ability and level of performing our duties and responsibilities, and constantly improve our ability to use this important thought to guide us to cope with major challenges, resist major risks, overcome major obstacles, resolve major contradictions and solve major problems. Only in this way can the whole party make concerted efforts to promote development, persevere in implementation and make contributions based on their posts on the new journey of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, and create achievements that can stand the test of history and the people.

　　Effectively run the general requirements of theme education through the whole process of theme education.

　　All party member should resolutely implement the general requirements of theme education. Only by carrying out the general requirements of theme education to the letter and running it through the whole process of theme education can we ensure the solid development of theme education and achieve tangible results.

　　Adhere to the unity of comprehensively and systematically grasping the basic viewpoints and scientific system of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era with the world outlook, methodology and standpoint and method running through this important thought. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Communist Party of China summed up the main contents of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era with "Ten Definitions", "Fourteen Persistences" and "Thirteen Achievements", put forward "Six Persistences", and summarized the world outlook, methodology and standpoint and method of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. The general requirements of theme education should run through the whole process of theme education, so as to truly understand the supreme leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. We should master the basic ideas of this important thought in an all-round way and the scientific system of this important thought as a whole, and better understand its essence by accurately grasping the world outlook, methodology and standpoint and method running through it. Only in this way can we stand tall in understanding the problem, see it deeply in analyzing it, and carry out our work accurately.

　　Adhere to the unity of transforming the subjective world with the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era and transforming the objective world. The Communist Party of China (CPC) people never study theory for window dressing, but to transform the subjective world and the objective world. The general requirements of theme education should run through the whole process of theme education, and it is particularly important to turn Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era into a powerful ideological weapon to transform the subjective world and the objective world. Party member, cadres, especially leading cadres at all levels, should take the initiative to put their own thoughts into it, learn and master the Party’s innovative theory about Do not forget your initiative mind, keep in mind the mission, be "the leader of the country", improve political judgment, political understanding, political execution, "three strictness and three realities", be loyal and clean, and be pragmatic and clean for the people, and so on. It is necessary to internalize the world outlook, methodology, standpoints and methods of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era and externalize them in practice, closely focus on the party’s central task in the new era and new journey, and make a good start for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way with new weather and new actions.

　　Persist in unifying the study and implementation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era with the implementation of the major strategic plan put forward by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The new ideas, new ideas, new strategies and specific requirements put forward by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in various fields can only be understood and grasped in the whole scientific system of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, and can they be deeply understood and effectively implemented. We should make the general requirements of theme education run through the whole process of theme education. We should be better at observing, grasping and leading the times by using Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era, making new progress and breakthroughs in Chinese modernization by using this important thought, solving various contradictions and problems in economic and social development by using this important thought, preventing and resolving major risks by using this important thought, and deepening the comprehensive and strict management of the party by using this important thought. Ensure that the whole Party is united in its efforts to achieve the goals and tasks set by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China under the scientific guidance of the Supreme Leader Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era.

　　(Written by Guo Rucai)

　　People’s Daily (May 11, 2023, 09 edition)