BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's key education news from the past week:

-- Free online learning platform keeps study going for Chinese students amid epidemic

China launched a national online learning platform to keep studies going for its hundreds of millions of primary and secondary students who have been confined to their homes amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Jointly launched by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the free learning platform covers the 31 provincial-level regions on the Chinese mainland.

The platform has been upgraded to further enrich its resources and promote the all-round development of students, featuring 10 sections, including epidemic prevention education, moral education, mental health education, classic literature and digital teaching materials.

-- China unveils guideline on strengthening hard-working spirit education among students

The Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council have unveiled a guideline on strengthening education on the hard-working spirit among students in universities, secondary and primary schools in the new era.

Stressing full understanding of the new requirements for strengthening such education to cultivate the younger generation to join the socialist cause, the guideline called for teaching the students to respect working and training scientific spirit for them.

Students should acquire basic working capability for livelihood and individual development, and form good working habits through such education, said the guideline.

-- China to recruit retired teachers to support universities in western regions

The MOE has launched a campaign recruiting a batch of retired teachers to support the development of universities in western regions.

The veteran teachers are expected to impart advanced teaching methods and scientific research concepts to teachers of the aided universities in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province.

The campaign aims to ease the pressure of talent shortages that are faced by industries and enterprises in the western areas, said the ministry. Enditem

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