"By 2020, China will achieve the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way. If we want to move forward, early childhood development will be an important step, and the whole society needs the necessary investment in this regard. " Cai Jianhua, secretary of the Party Committee of the Cadre Training Center of the National Health and Family Planning Commission and leader of the scientific parenting expert group of "New Family Planning", said in an interview with Southern Metropolis Daily recently that the investment in rural children's early development is a key step.

20 17 held the Central Economic Work Conference in February, and 17 mentioned that we should make precise policies to solve the problems of infant care and early childhood education services. In September last year, a public speech by Scott Rozelle, a development economist at Stanford University in the United States, made the concept of "early childhood development" no longer strange. However, there are still no clear answers to these questions, such as how to design an early development system for infants aged 0-3 and whether early childhood development is equivalent to early education.

Cai Jianhua believes that at present, great progress has been made in various studies on infants aged 0-3 at home and abroad, and the time is ripe to promote early childhood development in China, especially in poverty-stricken areas. He suggested that if we can invest 0. 1% of GDP, that is, about 70 billion yuan per year for children's development, the quality of China's population and labor force is expected to be significantly improved in the future.

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