Abstract��The article is the research findings of "The Theory of Educational Modernization and Research on Its Practice in Various Regions", one of the key research projects for the National Ninth Fice-year Plan. On the basis of comprehensive application of the modernization theory and regional scientific theory, it aims at studying the regional development of education in China, telling the regional development rules in educational modernization, choosing an educational model available to the future development and changes and promoting the course of educational modernization at regional level. This article first identifies the goals, strategy and methods for the research. Secondly it comes to the connotation, characteristics of modernization theory and educational modernization as well as the measuring standards. It explores the trend of the times and categories in the research of educational modernization based on the studies of the shaping and development of modernization theory. On such a basis, with the view to the whole progress of educational system, it explores the basic connotation and characteristics of educational modernization. With the reference of the indicator system of measuring the realization level the social modernization arriving to, it means to set up an indicator system of educational modernization. Thirdly, regarding to the exploration of the modernization course and background of education in China, the main factors such as science, economy, population, culture and modernization level, it provides historical and theoretical basis for exploring development course of educational modernization and the related factors. Finally, on the basis of classifying and analyzing the educational development levels in the 31 provinces and cities of China, it analyzes the regional specifics of educational modernization and the conditions for its realization in different regions of China. The divisions of the areas on different modernization courses are offered, namely the developed areas (the eastern coastline areas), average-developed areas (the middle parts) and lower undeveloped areas (the western parts). It analyzes the regional characteristics in the development of economy and education in different areas, the goals, tasks and policy of educational modernization for different areas. It also explores the strategy of coordinate development for different areas. It also explores the strategy of coordinate development for regions in China's educational modernization and the promoting strategy for educational modernization, meanwhile it puts forward the strategy of coordinate development for regions in realizing China's educational modernization.
2002, Vol. 2 
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