East China’s Jiangsu province celebrated the annual edition of the China Teachers’ Day in variety of activities on Thursday.
This year, the "Green Teacher's Day" initiative has been issued throughout the province, rejecting gifts and flowers, and advocating a low-carbon, environmentally friendly and frugal way of celebrating the festival.
The students of Zhenjiang Jurong Experimental Primary School wrote to their favorite teachers to express their gratitude to the teachers for their hard work.
Students from schools in Taizhou, Suqian and Huai’an used disposable paper cups, waste mineral water bottles, old paper boxes and other waste materials to make trophies and greeting cards for teachers.
The teachers across the province were tasked with the mission of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and re-opening the school in the days from late January until the preset day.
At present, Jiangsu has nearly 1 million teachers, and 36 colleges and universities have teacher-training degree programs which train 35,000 normal students every year.
Li Hongtian, National Superintendent, Research Fellow of Jiangsu Education Modernization Research Institute
A country cannot be strong
without a powerful education sector
The General Secretary hopes that teachers will
truly become the most respected profession
I think we must further create a good trend
of respecting teachers and teaching
so as to guide teachers to cultivate talents
and carry out teaching with morality
and make new contributions to the construction of a new Jiangsu
