江泽民同志指出 :“当今世界 ,科学技术突飞猛进 ,知识经济已见端倪 ,国力竞争日趋激烈”。他强调 :“教育应该以经济社会发展紧密结合 ,为现代化建设提供各类人才支持和知识贡献。这是面向 2 1世纪教育改革和发展的方向”。还特别要求“继续解放思想 ,深化改革 ,面向现代化 ,? Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out: “In today’s world, with rapid advances in science and technology, the knowledge economy has taken shape and the competition for national strength has become fiercer and fiercer.” He stressed: “Education should be closely integrated with economic and social development and provide all kinds of personnel support and knowledge contribution for the modernization drive, which is oriented toward the education reform and development in the 21st century.” He also specifically called for “continuing to emancipate the mind, deepen the reform and face modernization.”