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The Compulsory Education Curriculum Program and the Compulsory Education Course Standards make up the Compulsory Education Curriculum Program and Standards 2022, which was released by the Chinese Ministry of Education. The statement emphasizes the development of students’ key competencies while optimizing the objectives for compulsory education and outlining new demands for a more intense reform of the educational system in order to fulfill the needs of the current era. In order to better support student autonomous learning and overall development, it is imperative to raise reform awareness among the educational community, enhance teachers’ professionalism and instructional skills, and create student-centered learning environments before implementing the revised curriculum program and course standards. In order to add new perspectives to the literature on the new curriculum program and standards and provide implications for teachers and administrators in educational reform, we have focused our interpretation of the document on three dimensions: training objectives, student key competencies, and curriculum and teaching reform. We have also offered some recommendations for its successful implementation.

From April to May, 2016, an archaeological survey for Paleolithic sites along the Muling River Basin was carried out jointly by a team from the School of Archaeology of Jilin University, the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Heilongjiang Province, and local city and county Cultural Relics Administrative institutes. A total of 21 Paleolithic localities and 974 stone artifacts were found. This paper presents the results of this survey and a typological classification of the stone artifacts found in these localities, which are divided into different industry types (Flake, Blade, and Microblade) through their characteristics. Stratigraphic methods are used to speculate on the ages of the collected assemblages. Then, their functions are discussed through considerations of percussion technique, tool processing, and toolkits. Finally, they are compared with Paleolithic sites of the same age from surrounding areas.