The Importance of Development of Core Qualities

The fundamental starting point of developing Chinese learners’ core accomplishment is to fully implement China’s education policy; practice the socialist core values; implement moral education’s fundamental task; emphasize social responsibility, innovative spirit and practical ability; promote all-round development of students and make them become Chinese characteristic socialism’s qualified builders and reliable successors.

Learners’ core qualities refer to the essential characters and key competences which learners should possess to adapt to the lifelong development and social development for students, with comprehensive performance for the 9 qualities: specific responsibility for the society, national identity, international understanding, the humanistic background, scientific spirit, aesthetic temperament and interest, physical and mental health, learning how to learn, and practical innovation.

Figure 1.3　Development of Learners’ Core Qualities