Educational technology is an important indicator for the modernization of Chinese education. The leaders of the Chinese government have paid much attention to educational technology in the past 20 years of reform and opening-up£® Many leaders of the country, such as Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, Li Lanqing wrote inscriptions and issued important instructions for satellite education and modern distance education. The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council emphasized at the third national meeting on education that more importance should be attached to modern educational technology and it should be greatly modernized, and educational information system should also be greatly promoted£® The development of educational technology, as an important task in the modernization of Chinese education, is under way under the direct leadership of the ministers of education.
Chinese educational technology first started with college audio-visual programs in l920's in the School of Agriculture of Jinling University, In l 922, they used slides and films with oral explanations recorded on phonograph to publicize the scientific methods for cotton-planting. Audio-visual education was developed in various schools at all levels after l 949£® Radio and television universities were successively established in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenyang in l 960£® Educational technology was greatly developed after the implementation of reform and open to the outside world policies. The State Council approved to set up the Central Radio and Television University £ˇ§CRTVU£© and the Central Audio-visual Center in China in 1978£®After that radio and television universities and audio-visual centers were restored or established in provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government and separate planning cities £ˇ§except Tibet £©£® China Educational Television Station was set up in 1986 and provincial educational television stations were established in Liaoning, Jilin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Fujian, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Xinjiang and other provinces, cities and autonomous regions. |
