Theme: Sunshine Starting Point: Launching Ceremony of the Action Plan for the Guidance on Household Raising of 100,000 Rural Infants

Sponsored by the China Development Research FoundationandrewfeldmanpokerThe launching ceremony of the "Sunshine Starting Point: Action Plan for the Guidance of 100,000 Rural Infants and Infants at Home" was held in Beijing on May 15. Li Shi, senior professor of liberal arts at Zhejiang University and dean of the Institute of Shared Development, attended and delivered a speech.

Li Shi said that differences in human capital and academic qualifications are becoming increasingly important for the income gap.“andrewfeldmanpokerWe have made estimates that educational differences are increasingly responsible for the overall income gap. For example, in 1988, the Gini coefficient that could explain the overall income gap was about 4%. By 2022, it can be explained to 8%, and by 2018, it can be explained to about 18%."

Li Shi pointed out that whether you can go to college depends on whether you can go to a good high school, whether you can go to a good high school depends on whether you can go to a better junior high school or even primary school. Whether you can go to a good primary school depends largely on preschool education, so it is a chain influence. "The final factor comes down to preschool education and to the development stage of 0 to 3 years old. This objective difference will eventually affect his subsequent growth process, and will eventually affect the income gap."

Li Shi emphasized that in this sense, to achieve common prosperity, we must first solve the problem of fairness of opportunity."The so-called fairness of opportunity means that he can enjoy a relatively fair environment and conditions from the beginning of his birth and even during his mother's pregnancy, and be able to give full play. The opportunity to get better nutrition and other aspects is crucial."

He believes that eliminating unfair opportunities in children's early development, especially helping children from low-income and vulnerable groups overcome various obstacles in early development and providing them with fairer opportunities, will not only affect his own development, but also affect the entire society, and even whether he can achieve the grand goal of common prosperity in the future.

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