江泽民同志在十六大报告中指出，要“发展继续教育，构建终生教育体系”。终身教育（或称终身学习）是发端、发展于２０世纪６０年代，并在８０年代后开始在各国教育改革与发展中付诸实践的一种现代教育思潮，是指教育系统为个人提供一生参与有组织的学习机会，使其进行不断学 Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out in the report of the 16th CPC National Congress that we must “develop continuing education and build a lifelong education system.” Lifelong education (or lifelong learning) is a modern educational trend of thinking originated and developed in the 1960s and put into practice in the education reform and development of all countries since the 1980s. It refers to the education system providing individuals with life-long participation Organized learning opportunities to keep on learning