Make a Breakthrough at the Critical Points and Strive to Complete the Mission of Popularizing Nine Years of Compulsory Education on All Fronts

In order to accomplish the mission of popularizing nine years of compulsory education (NYCE) in Shaanxi Province according to schedule and also to ensure quality, we have, over many years, given full play to the functional role of the Education Commission and have put the popularizing of NYCE in the position of being "the most important of all that is important." We have been enthusiastic and have put all our strengths together to fight this battle; thus there has been a fundamental transformation of the outlook of basic education in some of the counties on the great plains of the Guanzhong region and especially in the impoverished regions.