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There are a series of new requirements for the education in the new era. We should integrate the spirit of educators into the entire process of teacher education, guide and inspire teachers to adhere to their educational mission, cultivate educational ethics, develop educational wisdom, firmly pursue education, cultivate educational sentiments, and enhance the realm of education. New requirements and standards should be taken for talent cultivation in the new era as the starting point, and attention should be paid to updating the content of teacher education to create a "trinity" teacher education model of local government, higher education institutions, and primary and secondary schools. We should adhere to moral education, and comprehensively improve the quality of independent talent cultivation. We should actively respond to the opportunities and challenges brought by the "digital intelligence" era to modernize education, and elevate the mastery of digital technology and its application in the field of education to a strategic level. By formulating comprehensive digital technology training plans, providing teachers with the necessary digital education resources and technical tools, establishing professional learning communities for teachers, creating a cultural atmosphere that encourages innovation and collaborative sharing, and gradually improving evaluation and reward mechanisms, we can continuously enhance teachers' digital literacy and application skills. We need to deeply grasp the dialectical relationship between Chinese characteristics and world-class education, attach great importance to cultivating teachers' international perspective with a global perspective, and explore effective training paths from multiple aspects such as cooperation and exchange, teacher training, resource sharing and standard formulating.

This paper focuses on the education of migrant children in Beijing. As of the late 1990s, the Chinese Government has developed several policies to address educational issues among migrant children. The present study analyses data from interviews with key education personnel in Beijing to explore the outcomes of the implementation of such migrant children's education (MCE) policies and the reasons for variation from policy design. The data suggest that there is poorer equality in terms of education among migrant vs. local children than the government has reported. Migrant children are faced with numerous strict admission procedures for public schools. The Chinese Government has not prioritised educational equality, despite professing to do so. The capability and motivation of local institutions for policy implementation are less adequate than might be expected. Using Honig's model of policy implementation, this research shows that the outcomes of the MCE policies are a product of interaction between policy design, participants and implementation context.

Agricultural non-point source pollution (ANPSP) is a primary cause of watershed water quality deterioration, and over 50% of NPS pollutants are estimated to come from ANPSP. Based on the "source-sink" theory and minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model, ANPSP source and key resistance factors were integrated to identify areas at risk of ANPSP production and transportation into the waters of the upper Yangtze River basin. The results showed a spatial difference in the agricultural pollution sources of the basin, which were determined using both ANPSP loads and land-use types. Soil type, rainfall erosivity, and elevation were the three most important resistance factors in pollution transportation, weighting 0.373, 0.241, and 0.147, respectively. There was a spatial effect on the comprehensive resistance of ANPSP transportation, which was lower in mountainous terrain at the central basin. On the coupling of source and resistance processes, regions at serious risk of ANPSP were found to be concentrated in the southwest area. Areas at very high risk of NH3-N and TP pollution accounted for 37.6% and 38.1%, respectively, in the total town/street area. The spatial risk patterns identified in this study could be used for decision making and policy regulation of ANPSP and for aquatic environmental protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, the DEA–Malmquist index method was used to measure the total factor productivity of citrus in seven major mandarin-producing provinces and seven major tangerine-producing provinces in China from 2006 to 2020. Moran's I index was used to test the spatial correlation of total factor productivity of mandarin and tangerine, and its σ convergence and β convergence characteristics were explored using coefficient of variation and spatial panel models. The results show that from the perspective of time series evolution, the growth rate of total factor productivity of mandarin and tangerine in China slowed down year by year after reaching the maximum value in 2008. Technological progress was the main factor affecting the total factor productivity of citrus. The total factor productivity growth of tangerine was more stable than that of mandarin, and the pure technical efficiency index and scale efficiency change index of mandarin and tangerine were not stable. From the perspective of regional differences, the total factor productivity of China's main citrus-producing provinces all indicated positive growth, showing an increasing trend from east to west. The drivers of growth were mainly technological progress and scale efficiency. The regional differences in total factor productivity growth for mandarin were more obvious than for tangerine. The total factor productivity of mandarin and tangerine showed obvious spatial correlation characteristics; the positive spatial spillover effect was significant; and there were σ convergence, absolute β convergence, and conditional β convergence. Regional disparities in citrus industry development can be more objectively reflected by convergence analysis that takes spatial factors, economic and social factors, and other factors into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]