On October 24, The 1st Giant Panda National
Park Nature Education Seminar & 4th China (Sichuan) Forest Natural
Education Conference was held in Xingjing County, Ya’an City. The meeting
released the Guidance on Promoting the Development of Natural Education for All
jointly issued by the provincial forestry and grassland bureau, the provincial
development and reform commission, the provincial department of education, the
provincial department of finance, the provincial department of agricultural and
rural affairs, the provincial department of culture and tourism, Sichuan
Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the provincial working
committee of caring for the next generation.
According to the Guidance, in order to
promote natural education in an all-round way, Sichuan Province will fulfill
five tasks, i.e. promoting natural education campaigns for all, building open
spaces for natural education, strengthening the construction of natural
education demonstration bases, cultivating diverse subjects of natural
education, and expanding exchanges and cooperation on natural education in the
next five years. In order to strengthen nature education, starting from 2021,
the second week of March each year will become Week of Nature Education in
Sichuan Province,during which the publicity and popularization of nature
education will be carried out in an all-round way.
It is clear from the Guidance that by 2025,
a development pattern of natural education for all in Sichuan will basically
take shape, with a natural education participation of 90% among kindergartens,
and primary and secondary schools, the public awareness of natural education up
to 80%, 500 natural education fields dominated by bases and 500 natural
education subjects. A number of natural education institutions, natural
education tutors and natural education courses, routes and products will be
cultivated and certified, and a group of high-quality natural education brands
will be created to build our province into a national model province for
natural education and an internationally renowned destination for natural
education.