This is the state power, and 22 ministries and commissions jointly support it!

　　May 18th, 1953

　　Zhongnanhai

　　At the meeting in the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.

　　A request report from the Ministry of Education caught Mao Zedong’s attention.

　　What Mao Zedong called "such an important job" was the compilation of textbooks for primary and secondary schools in China.

　　From 1950 to 1966, the top writers, scientists and educators in New China participated in the compilation of textbooks for primary and secondary schools.There are Hua Luogeng in mathematics, Lv Shuxiang in Chinese, Xu Guozhang in English, Yan Jici in physics, and Zhu Kezhen in geography. It can be said that the stars are shining!

　　In 1977, the country resumed the national unified college entrance examination system, and at the same time, another major event was deployed, that is, restarting the compilation of national primary and secondary school textbooks. Deng Xiaoping clearly realized: "The fundamental plan is to start from primary schools and secondary schools, otherwise catching up will become empty talk."

　　This year, Deng Xiaoping personally deployed and instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to arrange foreign embassies and consulates to purchase the latest primary and secondary school textbooks from all over the world and fly them back to China for the reference of textbook writers.

(Photo: Foreign primary and secondary school textbooks introduced at that time)

　　Forty-five first-class scholars in various disciplines actively responded to the call of the country and made suggestions for the compilation of teaching materials. The lineup is luxurious: physicist Zhou Peiyuan, mathematicians Su Buqing and Wu Wenjun, biologist Tong Dizhou and other scientific experts are impressively listed.

(Photo: biologist Tong Dizhou and children)

　　In the autumn of the following year, primary and secondary school students successively got new textbooks with fragrant ink, and the pace of catching up and surpassing was suddenly accelerated from here. After reading this set of teaching materials, the post-60s and post-70s, along with the national policy of reform and opening up, assumed the heavy responsibility of rejuvenating the country through science and education and became the backbone of national construction in all fields.

(Photo: New National Primary and Secondary School Textbooks in 1978)

　　Textbooks are the main carrier of knowledge dissemination, an important tool for teachers’ teaching and students’ learning, and embody the value system of a country and a nation. From the beginning of the foundation to catching up, the party and the state have always paid great attention to the textbooks for primary and secondary schools, and the textbooks have always been closely linked to the destiny of the country.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has stood at the strategic height of the overall development of the party and the country and ensuring the ideological security of the country, charting the direction and drawing the path for the construction of teaching materials.

　　General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has made a series of important instructions around the construction of teaching materials, clarified the major theoretical and practical problems in the construction of teaching materials in the new era, pointed out the historical mission and work focus of the construction of teaching materials, and provided fundamental follow-up for the construction of teaching materials to move in the right direction and better play the role of moral education.

　　The construction of teaching materials is an important support for educating people. What kind of teaching material system to build, what content to teach and what value to advocate in core teaching materials,It is the state’s right to reflect the will of the country.

　　According to the central decision-making, the textbooks of three subjects in primary and secondary schools are uniformly compiled, audited and used by the state. In 2012, textbooks on ethics and rule of law, Chinese and history in compulsory education were compiled, and in 2017, textbooks on ideological and political, Chinese and history in ordinary high schools were compiled.

(Photo: textbooks compiled by three subjects in compulsory education stage)

(Photo: Textbooks compiled by three subjects in ordinary high schools)

　　In order to further highlight and implement that the construction of teaching materials is a state power, in July 2017, the National Teaching Materials Committee was formally established. This is the first national high-standard institution in the field of teaching materials since the founding of New China.

　　The National Textbook Committee consists of department members from 22 departments including the Ministry of Education, Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Party History and Literature Research Institute, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and 26 senior experts in related fields.

　　The main duties of the National Textbook Committee are to supervise, check and coordinate, and the major principles and policies, basic systems, development plans and key textbooks of textbook construction should be examined and decided by the Textbook Committee.

　　The vast number of young people are the future and hope of the country and shoulder the historical responsibility of realizing the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

　　In the new historical period, the compilation of three textbooks by the state is the basic project to carry out the fundamental task of educating people in Lide. It is to inject love for the party, patriotism and socialism into students’ hearts from the stage of basic education, lay a solid foundation for China, cast a solid Chinese soul, and cultivate qualified builders and reliable successors of socialism.

　　When I open the first volume of primary school Chinese, the children first see such a picture.

　　China has been a unified multi-ethnic country since ancient times, and 56 ethnic groups have formed a happy Chinese family. "I am Chinese" has built the common identity, common background and common spiritual home of the Chinese nation.

　　This is the first lesson for freshmen, and it is also a core idea that runs through the whole set of unified textbooks, which is the important significance of the country’s implementation of unified textbooks.