Abstract: The National Education Conference was held on September 10^th 2018,the Teachers' Day of the PRC,at which General Secretary XI Jinping delivered an important speech.He provided a comprehensive understanding of Chinese education,and proposed a series of new philosophy and concepts of education reform,which can be summarized as “nine persistences”,that is:1)to persist in CPC's overall leadership over education,2)to persist in fostering integrity and promoting rounded development of people as the fundamental task of education,3)to persist in the priority of education development,4)to persist in socialist education,5)to persist in rooting in China's cultural and reality,6)to persist in making education serve for the people,7)to persist in deepening education reform and innovation,8)to persist in the mission of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,and 9)to persist in the foundational task of teachers' improvement.General Secretary XI stressed that education is the priority,which demonstrates the devotion of the government and CPC to enhancing education,as the importance of education has never been emphasized at such a high level.He also stated that the aim and value of education play a foundational role and added the working education to the Chinese education policy,so he proposed the aim of Chinese “socialist education should prepare students with moral,intellectual,physical,artistic,and working spiritual development as socialist builders and successors”.This conference provides the new guidelines,strategies and actions for education policy under XI Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era,and shows guiding significance for furthering education in China.

Key words: National Education Conference, the education development in the new era, CPC's education policy