| Equity in education is the greatest equity.Students in higher education are the future of the motherland,the hope of the nation,and the continuous reserve force for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.How to cultivate young people with ideals,skills and responsibilities who can take on great responsibilities is an important theoretical and practical theme facing higher education.Since the 18 th Party Congress,General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important statements on equity in education at the National Education Conference,the National Conference on Ideological and Political Work in Colleges and Universities,the Symposium for Teachers and Students of Ideological and Political Theory Courses in Schools,and during his visits to major universities,which have pointed out the direction and provided fundamental guidelines for the promotion of equity in higher education in the new era.The logic,basic content,theoretical innovations and practical paths of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discussion on equity in higher education are of great theoretical and practical value to the reform and development of education and the running of a satisfactory education for the people.General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discussion on equity in higher education is derived from the educational equity ideas of classical Marxist writers,the excellent Chinese traditional culture and the educational equity ideas of major leaders of the Communist Party of China.Standing in a new historical orientation,General Secretary Xi Jinping discusses the scientific connotation of equity in higher education from three aspects: fairness in opportunity,fairness in process and fairness in outcome;emphasizes that the realization of equity in higher education should adhere to the Marxist theory of fairness and justice,adhere to the science of advancing equity in higher education in the context of high-quality development,adhere to the gradual and step-by-step progressive advancement of equity in education,adhere to inclusive development,and unite universality and elitism,and unity and diversity,and other principles;and put forward important missions to achieve equity in higher education,including implementing the fundamental task of establishing moral education,spreading Marxist science and culture,practicing socialist core values,and realizing every student’s genuine enjoyment of the right to education.General Secretary Xi Jinping has used strategic,innovative,historical and systematic thinking to profoundly elaborate on the issue of equity in higher education,which has distinctive theoretical features and practical characteristics such as being people-oriented,scientific and contemporary.Putting into practice Xi Jinping’s important discussion on equity in higher education requires effectively strengthening top-level design,reinforcing the structural balance of higher education,and continuously promoting the practical process of equity in higher education with digital technology. |