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Henan Yellow Ribbon New Media Reporter Fu Jiajia reported that on December 19, 2016, 11 departments including the Ministry of Education issued the "Opinions on Promoting Study Travel for Primary and Secondary School Students" ( (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), it is proposed that "study travel should be placed in a more important position and promote the healthy and rapid development of study travel." Why should we vigorously promote study tours? How to ensure safety while promoting study tours? How to avoid "only study without traveling" or "only travel without learning"? How can we better exert the effectiveness of study tours? In response to these issues, China Education News Reporters and Henan Yellow Ribbon New Media reporters conducted exclusive interviews with educational administrators, experts, principals and related practitioners.

Interview Guests:

Zhang Zhiyong, Deputy Director of Shandong Provincial Department of Education

Deng Rui, Deputy Director of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission

Sun Yunxiao Research on Chinese Youth Chief Expert and Researcher of the Center

Wang Xiaoyan, Deputy Director of the Basic Education Research Office, Education Development Research Center, Ministry of Education

Lin Weimin, Principal of Beijing Foreign Languages ??School Affiliated to BFSU

Zhao Wei Chairman of Beijing Qixing Youth Development Foundation

Yang Tianfeng Director of Henan Province Yellow Ribbon Social Education Volunteer Service Center

Hu Yongjie Principal of Yaojia Town Junior High School, Zhongmu County, Henan Province

Li Jinmiao, director of Jinan Mu Chunfeng Public Welfare Student Aid Service Center

Jia Yongan, special tutor of study tours of Henan Province Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment Instructor Group

1. Why should we vigorously promote study tours?

Reporter: Currently, in order to avoid safety risks, many regions and schools dare not organize students to carry out study tours. This has become a bottleneck in promoting quality education. Why should we promote study tours? What is the difference between study tours and general tourism activities?

Sun Yunxiao: Different from general tourism activities, study tours are a collective student activity and an educational activity. The "Opinions" pointed out: "Study travel for primary and secondary school students is an off-campus educational activity that is planned and arranged by the education department and the school. It combines research study and travel experience through collective travel and centralized board and lodging. It is an important link between school education and off-campus education. The innovative form of education connection is an important content of education and teaching, and an effective way to educate people through comprehensive practice. "There is no doubt that study tours are an indispensable and important way to cultivate students' core competencies.

I have been engaged in youth education and research for more than 40 years, especially focusing on and researching summer camp activities for more than 20 years. I have come to an important conclusion, that is, the process of youth growth is a process of socialization, and this process has two The distinctive characteristics are, first, experiential nature, and second, group nature, both of which are indispensable. The so-called experiential nature means that teenagers grow up in experience. They need to participate in many practical activities close to society and nature. Parents and teachers cannot replace students' growth, let alone their own experience. The so-called group nature means that teenagers cannot complete socialization without group interaction. No matter how good parents and teachers are, they cannot replace the role of partners. Obviously, good study tour activities fully embody the experience and group nature, so they are particularly popular.

Zhang Zhiyong: For a long time, the practical education link has been weak or even missing, which has become an important bottleneck restricting the implementation of quality education and the reform of talent training models in primary and secondary schools in my country. People are increasingly realizing that what children lack in today's era is not knowledge or skills, but innovative spirit and practical ability. The majority of educators have increasingly realized that the study of book knowledge alone is not a truly complete education. At present, whether from the perspective of the education system or the social system, the conditions to support and ensure that primary and secondary school students carry out extensive social practice activities are increasingly mature. As an effective way to comprehensively practice education, study tours can effectively carry moral education, social education, national conditions education, patriotism education, excellent traditional cultural education, innovative spirit and practical ability cultivation.

Zhao Wei: Actively carrying out study tours for primary and secondary school students can promote the effective connection between on-campus education and off-campus education, so that students’ learning can achieve the "unity of knowledge and action", so that "read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles" "Road" is no longer just an educational quote in a book. Study tours can rely on innovations in educational forms and talent training models to promote the comprehensive implementation of quality education, promote the development of students' core competencies, guide students to actively adapt to future society, and promote the in-depth integration of book knowledge and life experience.

In addition, study tours are committed to students’ self-understanding, serving others, and serving society. They conduct professional curriculum development based on actual life and community issues, which will essentially be conducive to a good society. The establishment of ecological environment.

2. How to design a rich study tour activity curriculum?

Reporter: As the name suggests, study tours should be a combination of "research" and "travel".

How to prevent the phenomenon of “traveling without learning” or “learning without traveling” during study tours?

Zhao Wei: “Study travel” needs to avoid “traveling without learning” or “learning without traveling” " phenomenon, this requires schools to coordinate the time arrangement of courses, and the design and content arrangement of activity courses must have high aspirations, clear goals, vivid activities, and effective learning. This high requirement requires both off-campus education and on-campus education. Achieve good cohesion and complementarity in content, and achieve more expansion and innovation in teaching forms, including the development of various types of activity courses such as nature, geography, history, humanities, science and technology, and follow-up on corresponding teaching methods, renew.

Wang Xiaoyan: Study travel includes both "study" and "travel", and both are indispensable. As an important part of primary and secondary education and teaching practice, study tours should be scientifically and systematically designed based on the education and teaching requirements of primary and secondary schools, and incorporated into primary and secondary education and teaching plans. On the one hand, we must pay attention to the course design of study tours. It is necessary to pay attention to the overall consideration of comprehensive practical activity courses and promote the organic integration of study tours and school courses. At the same time, it is necessary to carefully design the content of study tour activity courses, and gradually establish a study tour activity curriculum system that focuses on local and rural conditions at the elementary school level, county conditions and market conditions at the junior high school level, and provincial conditions and national conditions at the high school level. On the other hand, it is necessary to enhance the relevance of the study travel plan. When incorporating study tours into primary and secondary school teaching plans, it is necessary to take into account the age characteristics of students and the school's teaching arrangements, and arrange study tour times flexibly. The "Opinions" propose that study tours are generally arranged for the fourth to sixth grade of elementary school, the first to second grade of junior high school, and the first to second grade of high school. It is based on this consideration.

Reporter: What is the difference between study tour activity courses and traditional subject courses?

Lin Weimin: Compared with traditional subject courses taught in the classroom, study tour activity courses have no obvious differences The characteristics of regularity, controllability, stages and continuity are more irregular, uncontrollable and discontinuous. This requires preparation before setting off for the study trip, and it is different. Preparation is as simple as previewing a new lesson in a traditional course. First of all, students need to examine their own concepts and ability reserves. Without prelude knowledge, it is difficult to quickly enter the "study trip" learning state; secondly, they need to look for "key events" in teaching. Paying attention to key events can turn the study trip into a "research trip" learning state. The activities are exciting, artistic and can add new concepts to students; third, teachers should improve their educational level. The teachers' skillful skills and high degree of wisdom can keep students in a state of love and sharing of "travel" and "study", so that students' inner learning motivation can be fully stimulated.

Reporter: How to establish a rich and colorful study tour activity curriculum?

Deng Rui: Study tour is a classroom on the road, an effective carrier of comprehensive practical education, carefully designed Study tour activity courses are the fundamental guarantee for improving the quality of study tours. Chongqing is a study tour experimental zone approved by the Ministry of Education and the only provincial-level experimental zone in the country. In accordance with the requirements of "lofty intentions and clear goals" put forward in the "Opinions", we have further optimized the "Learning the World, Traveling the World, and Growing the World" study and travel curriculum system developed by our city. That is, guided by the practice and cultivation of socialist core values, from the three levels of hometown, motherland, and world, we have constructed the "Walking Hometown" study tour course, the "Range Rover Motherland" study tour course, and the "Reading the World" exchanges. Learning courses guide students to enhance social participation, strengthen social responsibility, enhance national identity and international understanding, and comprehensively promote the implementation of core literacy cultivation.

3. How to ensure safety and how to raise funds?

Reporter: "Safety" is a sharp sword hanging over the heads of educators, and it is also the key to ensuring the smooth development of study tour activities. Top priority. How can we ensure student safety during study tours?

Sun Yunxiao: The safety principle is a decisive principle. The "Opinions" propose that study tours must adhere to safety first, establish a safety guarantee mechanism, clarify safety guarantee responsibilities, and implement safety guarantee measures to ensure the safety of students. The "Opinions" also proposed the establishment of a safety responsibility system and detailed specific requirements. For example, all localities should formulate scientific and effective safety protection plans for primary and secondary school students' study tours, and explore the establishment of effective safety responsibility implementation, accident handling, responsibility definition and disputes Processing mechanism, implement a hierarchical filing system, ensure implementation at all levels, and assign responsibilities to each person. The education administration department is responsible for urging schools to implement safety responsibilities and reviewing activity plans (including policy information) and emergency plans submitted by schools. The school must do a good job in safety education before the trip, be responsible for confirming that teachers and students who travel have purchased accident insurance, must buy school liability insurance, sign a safety responsibility letter with parents, and sign a safety responsibility letter with the company or institution entrusted to carry out the study trip to clarify the safety of all parties responsibility. The tourism department is responsible for reviewing the access conditions and service standards of enterprises or institutions that carry out study tours. The transportation department is responsible for urging relevant transportation companies to inspect cars, boats and other means of transportation used by students. The public security, food and drug supervision and other departments have strengthened the safety supervision of public places such as accommodation and catering involved in study tours, and investigated and dealt with traffic violations of vehicles transporting students in accordance with the law. The insurance regulatory agency is responsible for guiding the insurance industry to provide and optimize school liability insurance, travel agency liability insurance and other related products.

Learning from the relevant experience of some developed countries, we still need to strengthen major measures in three aspects.

Specifically, the first is legalization, that is, the formulation of clear and strict laws on the handling of accidental injuries to students. It is recommended that the "Measures for Handling Student Accidental Injuries" issued by the Ministry of Education in 2011 be further revised and improved and become law through legal procedures. The second is professionalization, that is, training several safety instructors for each school through scientific and professional training to reduce accidents to the lowest level. The third is guarantee, that is, the government funds accident insurance for every student and establishes relevant agencies to run it.

Reporter: Where do the funds for study tours come from? How to reduce the burden on parents?

Wang Xiaoyan: When it comes to funding, we must adhere to the principle of public welfare. The "Opinions" proposed that "study tours shall not be conducted for profit-making purposes, and fees must be reduced or exempted for students from poor families." To this end, it is also very important to improve the funding mechanism. Various localities can adopt various forms and channels to raise research and study travel funds, explore special funding guarantee mechanisms, and explore the establishment of a diversified funding mechanism that is jointly borne by the government, schools, society, and families. In this regard, we can refer to some relatively mature international experiences. For example, in Japan, in order to reduce the burden on parents, not only has the overall price standard for school trips for primary and secondary school students been set, but many local governments have also clarified the upper limit of fees. Only stable funding guarantees can ensure the sustainable and normal development of study tours.

4. How to build a safe and suitable study tour base?

Reporter: Choosing a suitable study tour venue will help reduce risks and successfully achieve activity goals. How can we build a safe and suitable study and travel base?

Sun Yunxiao: When I read the book about Disney President Eisner’s memories of summer camp life, I found that during his teenage years, he spent nine consecutive summer vacations at the same camp. A summer camper provides camp life experience or service, and says that these exercises gave him the skills to achieve a lifelong career. It is reported that he could actually see records of his grandfather's activities here 80 years ago in the camp. You can imagine what kind of camp can attract people to live and practice here for nine consecutive summer vacations? Isn't this a magical camp? I also visited the Oriental Oasis in Shanghai, which may be the largest facility in China. Perfect campsite. I think there is a need to build an attractive camp in every provincial capital and larger city in China.

Wang Xiaoyan: The realization of the connotative goals of study tours must rely on a certain carrier, and this carrier is the choice of venue (base). According to the educational goal of cultivating students' sense of social responsibility, innovative spirit and practical ability during study tours, two points should be paid attention to in the construction and selection of carriers: On the one hand, it is necessary to adapt to local conditions and fully explore regional characteristics. Vast natural scenery and rich historical and cultural heritage, red educational resources and comprehensive practice bases, industrial and mining enterprises and well-known universities, museums and science and technology museums and other places, natural, historical, geographical, scientific and technological, humanities, experience Contents such as this can be used as a carrier for students to get closer to nature, broaden their horizons, increase their knowledge, and understand the national conditions. On the other hand, we need to strengthen interconnection and form an operating system for study tours. It is necessary to actively promote regional cooperation and resource sharing, create a number of influential and exemplary study travel bases and quality routes, gradually form an interconnected study travel network, actively carry out research on study travel, and establish study travel as soon as possible. The base’s access standards, operating procedures and evaluation system, and the release of relevant information and experience introductions on study tours, form a complete system for study tours in primary and secondary schools across the country.

Deng Rui: Following the characteristics of study tours that are layered, diverse, and accessible, we carried out an interconnected “soft” design and used various real resources to create a “nostalgia” with Chongqing characteristics. , "City Study Travel Practice Classroom", "China National Conditions Study Travel Alliance Base" and "International Study Travel and Inspection Project" Trinity Study Travel Flexible Comprehensive Base make full use of international and domestic high-quality resources to carry out "study travel +" activities to allow students to walk in In real social life and natural scenery, explore and study real factories, farms, businesses, civic activities, humanistic environments, and natural landscapes to meet personalized and diversified study and travel education needs.

5. How to manage a wide-ranging study tour?

Reporter: Study tours involve many aspects and departments. If coordination is not in place, many activities will be difficult to carry out widely. How to strengthen the coordination and management of study tours?

Wang Xiaoyan: To lead a large number of students on campus study tours, it is not enough to rely solely on the education department. It also requires transportation, tourism, food and drug supervision, culture, finance, and public security. Cooperate with relevant departments in all aspects. The "Opinions" proposes to "establish a coordination group for primary and secondary school students' study tours with the participation of relevant departments, and the office can be located in the local off-campus education liaison conference office", which is highly instructive and operable. In actual operations, on the one hand, we must pay attention to overall coordination and orderly organization. It is necessary to do a good job in the overall design of study tours, make overall plans, formulate corresponding work plans based on the actual conditions of the local area and the school, and decompose responsibilities to relevant departments and units at all levels, so as to ensure that "there are plans for activities and plans before departure" Keep records and have emergency plans.” On the other hand, attention should be paid to management standards and clear responsibilities.

Local education administrative departments and primary and secondary schools should formulate working procedures for conducting study tours, clarify the purpose and plan of the activities, activity management and staffing, time arrangements, travel routes, charging standards, etc., and be sure to sign an agreement with all parties and parents of the activities. Clarify the responsibilities and rights of schools, parents, students and related collaborative agencies, and ensure the smooth implementation of study tours with standardized management and clear responsibilities.

Deng Rui: In order to ensure the smooth development of study tours and improve the effectiveness of study tours, Chongqing has improved and supplemented the coordination group for study tours for primary and secondary school students led by the education department, integrating the work of relevant departments and units. Responsibilities have been decomposed at different levels, a system for regular inspections and strengthening supervision has been formulated, and the overall planning and management guidance of study tours have been strengthened.

In order to promote study tour management, Chongqing has created a study tour information management platform. The platform mainly sets up 10 systems including school needs, student management, course resources, course implementation, process monitoring, guarantee system, safety and emergency response, course evaluation, service agencies and cooperative resource management. Through dynamic and real-time information, through collaboration and integration Chongqing, domestic and international study and travel education course resources, service agencies, etc., realize effective information management of the entire process of study and travel.

At the same time, Chongqing has created a home-school linkage model for study tours, making full use of the diversity, flexibility, simplicity and other characteristics of family travel to bring study tours into families and explore family travel as a carrier. , a study tour model led by school management. Explore the management mechanism of home-school linkage for study tours in Chongqing, study the implementation strategies for home-school linkage for study tours in Chongqing, compile a guidebook for family study travel in Chongqing, etc. Let family study tours and school study tours be organically combined, complementary and progressive, so that study tours not only guide students' growth, but also become an effective way to improve citizen literacy and become a highlight of Chongqing education.

Zhang Zhiyong: Efforts should be made to improve the organization, implementation and management system of study tours, and explore the formation of a system where primary and secondary school students are widely involved, the quality of activities is continuously improved, the organization and management are standardized and orderly, the basic conditions are strong, safety responsibilities are implemented in place, and the cultural atmosphere is To develop a healthy study tour development system, education administration departments at all levels must strive to strengthen department coordination mechanisms, safety responsibility mechanisms, funding coordination mechanisms, organization and implementation mechanisms, curriculum teaching mechanisms, and guidance and publicity mechanisms. At the same time, all localities should regard the implementation and effectiveness of study tours as an important part of the comprehensive evaluation of schools. On the premise of fully respecting individual differences and encouraging diversified development, primary and secondary schools should scientifically evaluate the effectiveness of students' participation in study tours, and gradually incorporate the evaluation results into student credit management and comprehensive quality evaluation systems.

6. What are the specific forms of study tours?

Reporter: It can be said that study tour is currently the loudest and most mentioned word. Each unit has its own approach. So, what are the specific forms?

Yang Tianfeng: The specific activity content is mainly to organize college and middle school students and community youth to go deep into society to carry out multi-level, all-round, rich and fruitful social practice activities. Enable young students to understand the masses, understand society, receive education, and hone their will. (1) Carry out "Public Welfare Sunday" social practice activities for college students. (2) Carry out the "Four Ones" and "Public Welfare Sunday" social practice activities for middle school students. (3) Carry out "Public Welfare Sunday" patriotism and inspirational education activities for primary school students. (4) Carry out "Public Welfare Sunday" legal experience activities for community youth. The activities are as follows: (1) Guide young students to adhere to theory and practice, provide services within their capabilities to the grassroots, draw correct social observation conclusions, clarify a firm political direction, and truly realize the purpose of "getting education, growing talents, and making contributions" . Activities such as educational assistance, social surveys, and social observations can be carried out extensively. (2) Focus on giving full play to the knowledge and skill advantages of college and technical secondary school student volunteers, and organize them to select service locations based on necessary preliminary research and contacts, organize remote information services, on-site technical guidance, etc., to disseminate and promote modern practical technologies. (3) Focus on the role of college student volunteers, survey social and national conditions, inspirational education, and patriotic education questionnaire social practice activities. (4) Organize middle school students to actively participate in social practice classes, and conduct extensive activities to visit a patriotic education site, participate in a community volunteer service activity, do a practical thing to repay their parents and elders, and learn a production and life skill or self-care and self-care knowledge The "Four Ones" social practice activities are the main content. (5) "Red Monument" visit and search activities. By organizing middle school students to visit various memorial halls, museums, exhibition halls, pay respects to revolutionary sites and martyrs' cemeteries, and organize activities such as "Red Charity Sunday" and "Revolutionary Holy Land Tour", middle school students are educated on patriotism and revolutionary traditions. (6) "Enterprising Motherland" inspection and experience activities. By organizing middle school students to visit key national construction projects, high-tech enterprises and institutions of higher learning, they can experience the glorious achievements of motherland construction since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and further stimulate the ideals and enthusiasm of middle school students to serve the country with talents. (7) "Harmonious Home" volunteer service activities.

Organize middle school students to carry out extensive volunteer service activities such as publicity of civilized etiquette, transportation maintenance, scenic spot explanations, respecting the elderly, helping the disabled, cleaning the environment, etc., and encourage middle school students to cook, wash and clean housework for their parents and elders. Guide middle school students to start from themselves, contribute to society, serve others, promote new social trends, and contribute to building a socialist harmonious society. (8) "Strong Body" national defense experience activity. Experience the military, transform and grow in the green military camp, and let youth spread its wings and soar with its dreams. In the past two years, we have always used the theme of "The e-road accompanies you to light up youth dreams" and actively organized large, middle and primary schools to carry out in-depth social practice activities. Guide young students to study diligently and aspire to become talents, so that young students can go through hardships, receive training, grow their talents, and make contributions in practice.

7. Why are study trips so popular among students and parents?

Reporter: Why are study tours so popular among students and parents? Please share this question with Principal Hu.

Hu Yongjie: Many areas in China dare not organize students to carry out outdoor activities. This has become a bottleneck in promoting quality education, or a stubborn disease. The reasons are also very clear. They are worried about accidents, the school is afraid of lawsuits, and cannot bear responsibility. Against this background, the launch of “study tours” by 11 departments including the Ministry of Education is a timely help.

The process of adolescent growth is a process of socialization, and this process has two significant characteristics, one is experiential, and the other is group, both of which are indispensable. Experiential means that young people grow up in experience, and they need to personally participate in many practical activities close to society and nature. Parents and teachers cannot replace students' growth, nor can they replace students' own experiences. Group nature means that teenagers cannot complete socialization without group interactions. No matter how good parents and teachers are, they cannot replace the role of partners. Approximately 6 million teenagers in the United States participate in summer and winter camp activities every year. Regarding the first gain, the survey results are almost all “making new friends.” Obviously, good study tour activities fully embody the experience and group nature, so they are particularly welcomed.

8. How can education and tourism be deeply coordinated and organically combined during study tours?

Reporter: We usually talk about studying, but the actual academic term is study tour, a cross-border trip between education and tourism. However, we are often criticized for studying without traveling. I would like to ask experts how to make education and tourism deeply synergistic and organically combined during study tours?

Li Jinmiao: We say that tourism is closely related to our educational study tours, but we must clearly see that tourism and travel are two completely different concepts. Conceptually speaking from the perspective of tourism and travel, that is, from a behavioral point of view, tourism travel is about having fun and playing in action, focusing on this action meaning. In our line, it focuses on targeted experiences for students. It is also different from the functional point of view of behavioral meaning. Tourism is about leisure, and our travel is mainly about theme. From the perspective of behavioral trends, tourism reflects its leisure, mainly leisure and adjustment of life. The trend of our study tours is mainly educational themed experiences and themed exchanges. Furthermore, in terms of its purpose, tourism is actually more about social development, traveling and adjusting life. But our educational trips are mainly about experiential learning. From the perspective of its value and the value of behavior, in fact, tourism is more about enriching experiences. Our study trips are mainly to enhance students' abilities. Therefore we say that they are organically connected and complementary to each other. At the same time, the value meaning of the two behaviors is different. (Compiled by Henan Yellow Ribbon New Media reporter Fu Jiajia)

9. What is the core problem to be solved during study tours?

Reporter: As everyone knows, study tours were recently proposed at the State Council executive meeting on August 21, 2014. Summer camps have been formally proposed in several suggestions, and primary and secondary schools should be encouraged to vigorously promote them. However, study tours have also been discussed before. They were controversial before. What is the core problem that study tours need to solve?

Jia Yongan: I think study tourism, to use a more fashionable term nowadays, is tourism + education. I think its core is to further improve our students’ learning ability, thinking ability, and practical ability. played a great role in promoting. To put it more plainly, it is to enhance our students' ability to think and act. I think this will play a very good role in promoting our study tours. Fundamentally speaking, I think it can be summed up in one sentence. What the study tours need to solve is the living ability of our students, which is to teach us students how to live. , I think whether this idea is good or that idea is good, the most fundamental thing is to let our next generation, so that our teenagers can live independently when they enter society in the future, and truly be able to survive for the country and for each of us. Be able to gain some survival skills.

Editor in charge: Zhang Enyu

Attachment 1: Notice of the Henan Provincial Department of Education and other 11 departments forwarding the "Opinions of the Ministry of Education and other 11 departments on promoting study tours for primary and secondary school students"

Attachment 2: Opinions of the Ministry of Education and other 11 departments on promoting study tours for primary and secondary school students

Attachment 1:

Henan Provincial Department of Education and other 11 departments

Notice forwarding the "Opinions of 11 departments including the Ministry of Education on promoting study tours for primary and secondary school students"

Provincial municipalities, county (city) education bureaus, development and reform commissions, public security bureaus, finance bureaus, Transportation Bureau, Culture, Radio and Television Bureau, Food and Drug Administration, Tourism Bureau, Youth League Committee, Nanyang Insurance Regulatory Bureau:

The "Opinions of 11 departments including the Ministry of Education on promoting study tours for primary and secondary school students" (Teaching Jiyi [2016] No. 8 (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") is forwarded to you and combined with the actual situation of our province, the following opinions are put forward. Please implement them together.

1. Raise awareness and attach great importance to it. All localities should strengthen the study of the "Opinions" and fully understand the importance of study tours for primary and secondary school students. Study tours for primary and secondary school students are an important way to promote the reform and development of basic education and an important carrier of strengthening the core socialist values. Carrying out study tours is conducive to promoting the comprehensive implementation of quality education, innovating talent training models, guiding students to actively adapt to society, and promoting the deep integration of book knowledge and life experience; it is conducive to stimulating students' love for the party, the country, and the people. Increase the understanding and recognition of the firm "four self-confidences"; it is conducive to promoting students' physical and mental health, learning to use their hands and brains, learning to survive, learning to behave and do things, and cultivating students' sense of social responsibility, innovative spirit and practical ability. All localities, departments and schools should attach great importance to it and actively promote the in-depth development of study tours in our province.

2. Overall planning and coordination and strengthening management. All localities should, under the leadership of local governments, establish study tour leaders for primary and secondary school students composed of colleagues from relevant departments such as education, development and reform, public security, finance, transportation, culture, food and drug supervision, tourism, and the National Youth League. Group (or coordination group), establish a dedicated study tour office, located in the education department. Leading groups (or coordination groups) at all levels should increase the overall planning and management guidance of study tours, formulate corresponding work plans based on local actual conditions, clarify work responsibilities, and study and solve difficulties and problems encountered in study tours. Educational administrative departments at all levels should strengthen guidance and assistance for primary and secondary schools in conducting study tours. Each school should give full play to its main role, coordinate study tours and comprehensive practical activity courses, and promote the organic integration of study tours and school curricula.

3. Establish and improve various guarantee mechanisms. Establish a safety responsibility system. All localities should formulate scientific and effective plans for primary and secondary school students to study and travel, establish effective safety responsibility implementation, accident handling, responsibility definition and dispute resolution mechanisms, implement a hierarchical filing system, implement it at every level, and assign responsibilities to each person; and improve the funding mechanism. Various localities can raise funds for study tours for primary and secondary school students through various methods and channels, and explore the establishment of a diversified funding mechanism that is jointly borne by the government, schools, society and families. All localities should regard the situation and effectiveness of students' participation in study tours organized by schools as an important part of the school's comprehensive evaluation system; scientifically evaluate the situation and effectiveness of students' participation in study tours, and gradually incorporate the evaluation results into the student credit management system and students' comprehensive quality evaluation system.

4. Create an atmosphere and promote overall progress. While steadily advancing the work, all localities should fully explore and refine a number of advanced models, determine a number of study tour experimental areas and demonstration schools, and promote the overall development from point to point. The Provincial Department of Education will announce a batch of study tour bases in Henan Province (or social practice education bases for primary and secondary schools in Henan Province) in the near future. All localities should rely on provincial, municipal, and county-level bases to actively promote resource sharing and regional cooperation, create a number of high-quality study and travel routes, and gradually form a well-laid out study and travel network. All localities should actively innovate the content and form of publicity, publicize the importance of study tours to parents, guide parents to establish a correct outlook on talent development and education, create a good social environment and public opinion atmosphere for study tours, and promote study tours in our province. Healthy and rapid development.

Henan Provincial Department of Education Henan Provincial Development and Reform Commission Henan Provincial Public Security Department

Henan Provincial Department of Finance Henan Provincial Department of Transportation Henan Provincial Department of Culture

Henan Provincial Department Food and Drug Administration Henan Provincial Tourism Bureau Henan Insurance Regulatory Bureau

*** Youth League Henan Provincial Committee Zhengzhou Railway Bureau

April 20, 2017

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