First, adhere to the scientific nature. Focusing closely on the fundamental requirements of the moral education, adhering to the people-oriented, following the law of physical and mental development of students and the law of education, the scientific concepts and methods throughout the entire process of research, attaching importance to the theoretical support and empirical evidence, to ensure that the research process is rigorous and standardized.

Second, focus on the times. Fully reflect the new requirements of the new period of economic and social development on the cultivation of talents, comprehensively reflect the advanced educational thinking and educational concepts, to ensure that the research results are up-to-date and forward-looking.

Third, strengthen the national character. It emphasizes the inheritance and development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, roots the core literacy research in the cultural and historical soil of the Chinese nation, systematically implements the basic requirements of socialist core values, highlights social responsibility and national identity, fully embodies the national characteristics, and ensures that it is based on China's national conditions and has Chinese characteristics.

Background of Core Literacy for Student Development:

The requirements of the 18th National Congress and the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee on the establishment of a moral character have been put into practice, and the Ministry of Education developed and issued the "Opinions on Comprehensively Deepening Curriculum Reform and Implementing the Fundamental Task of Establishing Virtues and Shaping the Personality of the People" in 2014, which puts forward that "the Ministry of Education will organize a study to put forward a system of core literacy for the development of students of various academic periods, and make it clear that students should have a core literacy system. The Ministry of Education will organize research to propose a system of core qualities for student development in each school year, specifying the necessary character and key abilities that students should have to adapt to lifelong development and the needs of social development".

Value positioning of core literacy for student development:

Core literacy is the materialization of the Party's education policy, and it is an intermediate link between macro education concepts, cultivation goals, and specific education and teaching practices. Through the bridge of core literacy, the Party's education policy can be transformed into specific requirements that are usable for education and teaching practice and easily understood by educators.

Clearly defining the necessary character and key abilities that students should have, and answering the fundamental question of "what kind of morality, what kind of people" from the meso level, leading the reform of the curriculum and the change of the parenting model.

Baidu Encyclopedia - China's Student Development Core Competencies