Research on the Informatization of Labor Education in Colleges and Universities in the New Era

In 2018, on the National Education Conference, general secretary Xi Jinping proposed the working requirement of “constructing the education system of all-around development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetics and labor education” and stressed on the importance of labor education. He stressed that we should carry out the labor spirit among students and guide students to advocate and respect labor by education. They should not know that labor is the most honorable, lofty, and beautiful. After they grow up, they can work hard, honestly, and innovatively (People’s Daily, September 11, 2018). In March 2020, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening the Labor Education in Universities, Middle Schools, and Primary Schools in the New Era (hereafter referred to as The Opinions). The Opinions pointed out that labor education should be incorporated into the national course plan of middle schools and primary schools and the talent cultivation plan of vocational colleges and general institutes of higher education and a perfect set of labor education system should be established in universities, middle schools, and primary schools. Ordinary higher educational institutions should define that labor education should mainly rely on courses and combine characteristics of discipline and specialty into the content of labor education. In July 2020, the Ministry of Education issued the Guidance Outline of Labor Education of Universities, Middle Schools, and Primary Schools (Trial) (hereafter referred to as The Outline). The Outline Nowadays, the society has entered the era of informatization. Artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), big data, cloud computing, and other new technologies emerged one-by-one. The Party Central Committee attaches high attention to the Chinese education development in the new era and proposed the education policy of simultaneous focusing on five educations. Among them, labor education is very important. This paper gives some opinions on how to combine labor education and informatization in colleges and universities in China in the new era.