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Speech by Huang Yanrong, Vice Governor of Sichuan, at the 2009 Forum for Secondary School Principals 各位代表、各位来宾： 大家上午好。在四川加快建设灾后美好家园，加快建设西部经济发展高地的关键时刻，我们迎来了2009年中外中学校长论坛的各位嘉宾。大家欢聚四川，共同研讨“教育创新与创新人才培养”这一教育永恒的主题，共同交流基础教育改革与发展的经验与收获，在此，我谨代表四川省人民政府，对本次论坛的顺利召开表示热烈地祝贺！对与会的各位领导和中外来宾表示热忱的欢迎！ Honorable delegates, distinguished guests: Good morning! At the critical juncture when people in Sichuan are accelerating our pace in post-quake reconstruction and building a strategic height for economic development in west China, we are delighted to have guests from home and abroad to attend the 2009 Forum for Second School Principals and conduct discussions on the eternal theme of Education Innovation and Innovative Talent Training and exchange experience in basic education reform and development. On behalf of the Sichuan Provincial People’s government, I wish to extend our congratulations on the opening of the forum and express our warm welcome to all the leaders and guests from home and abroad. 四川历史文化悠久，教育底蕴厚重。公元前141年，西汉蜀太守文翁在成都创办的文翁石室，开创了中国地方政府办学的先河，迄今已有2100多年。四川教育规模巨大，现有各级各类学校3.72万所，在校学生1900万人，教职工90万人，教育总规模名列全国第四、西部第一。全省共有571所中职学校，在校生达到108万人，与普通中学学生人数相当，规模居全国第四位。 Sichuan as a province dates back to very early times with strong educational tradition. In 141 BC, Wen Weng, governor of the Shu in the Western Han Dynasty opened Stone Chamber School, which was the first local government-run school in China, with a history of over 2,140 years to date. Sichuan’s educational development is large in scale, boasting 19 million students and 900,000 teachers and staff members in 37,300 schools of various kinds and at different levels, ranking 4th in the country and first in west China. The province has 571 secondary vocational schools with student enrollment of 1.08 million, equivalent to the student number in ordinary middle school, ranking 4th in China. 全省有普通高校90所，有211工程建设高校5所，985工程建设高校2所，高等教育毛入学率达到22%，步入大众化行列。现在我们更加重视实施素质教育，提高教育质量；更注重维护教育公平，关注和改善民生。 There are 90 universities and colleges in