BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's key education news from the past week:

-- China issues new guideline to improve compulsory education

The Communist Party of China Central Committee and State Council published a new guideline for advancing education reform and improving the quality of compulsory education.

Moral education and all-round development of students will be priorities and the efforts must cover every student in every school.

-- China trains 5,500 calligraphy teachers

A training program started in 2015 to provide calligraphy courses for primary and secondary school teachers has so far trained 5,500 teachers.

The program plans to train about 7,000 calligraphy teachers at primary and secondary schools nationwide in five years to promote both the accessibility and quality of calligraphy education at the schools.

-- China to promote labor education in schools

China will give particular attention to labor education in primary and secondary schools and colleges.

Labor education will be incorporated into the education system to foster citizens with an all-round moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic grounding, in addition to a hard-working spirit. Enditem

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