Ministry of Education (China): Difference between revisions

The Ministry of Education currently has 19 internal departments and bureaus. {{As of|2022}}, there arewere 75 [[Ministry of Education (China)#Affiliate higher education institutions|colleges and universities]] affiliated with the Ministry of Education.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=国务院办公厅关于印发教育部主要职责内设机构和人员编制规定的通知 - 中华人民共和国教育部政府门户网站 Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Issuing the Regulations on the Main Responsibilities, Internal Institutions and Staffing of the Ministry of Education |url=http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_zzjg/moe_188/202006/t20200604_462577.html |access-date=2023-11-13 |website=www.moe.gov.cn}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=教育部直属高等学校 - 中华人民共和国教育部政府门户网站 |url=https://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_zzjg/moe_347/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220611022011/http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_zzjg/moe_347/ |archive-date=June 11, 2022 |access-date=2022-05-29 |website=Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China}}</ref>

The Ministry of Education was restored after the disruptions of the [[Cultural Revolution]] in 1975<ref name=":Minami">{{Cite book |last=Minami |first=Kazushi |title=People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War |date=2024 |publisher=[[Cornell University Press]] |isbn=9781501774157 |location=Ithaca, NY}}</ref>{{Rp|page=92}} by the Fourth[[4th National People's Congress]]. Until the Ministry's 1975 restoration, the [[State Council of the People's Republic of China|State Council]]'s Science and Education Group was the most important government body in the education bureaucracy.<ref name=":Minami" />{{Rp|page=92}}

In 1952, the Ministry of Education sought to develop a system of political counselors as a pilot program in universities.<ref name=":032">{{Cite book |last=Doyon |first=Jérôme |title=Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China |publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]] |year=2023 |isbn=978-0-472-90294-1 |pages= |doi=10.3998/mpub.12291596 |doi-access=free}}</ref>{{Rp|page=107}} [[Tsinghua University]] established a political counselor program in 1953, becoming the first university to do so.<ref name=":032" />{{Rp|page=107}} In this program, new graduates who were also [[Chinese Communist Party]] members worked as political counselors in managing the student body and student organizations, often simultaneously serving as [[Communist Youth League of China|Communist Youth League]] secretaries.<ref name=":032" />{{Rp|page=107}}