Shaanxi Will Accelerate Construction of 450 Public Kindergartens and Wholly Carry out Two-Child Policy This Year

This morning (Jan. 24), the Fourth Session of the 12th People's Congress of Shaanxi Province opened at Shaanxi Grand Hall. Provincial governor Lou Qinjian, on behalf of Shaanxi Provincial People's Government, stated in the report on the government’s work that, in 2016, Shaanxi will pay more attention to balanced configuration of education, health care, and culture resources, etc. accelerate the construction of 450 public kindergartens, and entirely complete the second phase preschool education 3-year action plan.

Lou Qinjian Said, this year, Shaanxi will accelerate to improve the operating conditions of rural poor schools, build or expand 100 urban middle and primary schools every year, and proceed with university district reform. Optimize and integrate senior high school and vocational educational resources, and strengthen special school construction. Reform financial input mode, and support construction of first-class university, first-class discipline, first-class college, and first-class major. Comprehensively advance healthy Shaanxi construction, launch national medical reform pilots, accelerate the development modern hospital system, actively organize medical group and medical association, unceasingly cultivate general practitioner and recruit medical undergraduate for grass-roots units, and promote distribution of high-quality medical resources to grassroots level. Accelerate the construction of Northwest Medical University, support Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine to develop into a national first-class university of traditional Chinese medicine, and support Tongchuan and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine to jointly run schools.

Lou Qinjian indicated in the report that Shaanxi will wholly enforce Two-Child policy, and practically implement assistance policies for family that lost their only child.