Shanghai's "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" proposal: Implement the national policy of steadily expanding the scope of free education and explore extending the compulsory education period policy.

The Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China has issued a proposal on formulating the 15th five-year plan for the national economy and social development of Shanghai. It proposes implementing the "Teaching Morality and Cultivating Talents in the New Era" project, strengthening physical education, arts education, and labor education, and improving the education evaluation system. It also suggests improving the education resource allocation mechanism that adapts to population changes, strengthening the cross-segment allocation of school buildings and teachers in basic education, and ensuring the overall stable growth of education financial investment in the whole city. Implementing the national policy of steadily expanding free education and exploring policies to extend the compulsory education period. Promoting the improvement and quality of basic education, coordinating the balanced development of quality compulsory education, the universal and quality development of preschool education, and the quality and characteristic development of regular high schools, and establishing a mechanism to guarantee special education. Deepening the construction of "double first-class" universities, expanding the enrollment scale of quality undergraduate education, deepening the integration of industry and education, and increasing the training efforts of engineering doctoral students. Enhancing the educational capabilities of vocational schools, expanding the range of integrated majors between high and vocational schools and junior colleges. Guiding and regulating the development of private education. Expanding the opening up of high-level education to the outside world, supporting overseas high-level universities in the fields of science and engineering to cooperate in running schools in Shanghai. Cultivating and fostering a high-level team of teachers, and strengthening the protection of teacher benefits. Improving the mechanism of school-family-society collaborative education, implementing actions to enable smart education and teaching, and enhancing students' scientific literacy. Optimizing public services for lifelong learning, building a diversified supply system of elderly education resources, and constructing a learning city.