Main duties:
1. Implement State, provincial and municipal laws, regulations and policies on education; draw up local education laws, regulations and policies; draft proposals of education reform and annual development plans, and implement them upon approval.
2. Promote the balanced and fair development of education; manage and coordinate, in an overall manner, pre-school education, compulsory education, general high-school education, vocational education, adult education, higher education and special education; facilitate the development of private school education; provide guidance to standardized education management, further implement education reform and fully carry out quality-oriented education.
3. Guide and coordinate the establishment of schools; collaborate with relevant departments to draft enrollment plans and administrate examinations and admissions; take charge of college students’ moral education and student-loan programs; provide guidance and service to graduates in terms of job-hunting and starting a business.
4. Organize to implement the qualification system for teachers; guide the team building of teachers and administrative staff of all types of schools at all levels; guide the education personnel system reform; be responsible for the continuing education and training of kindergarten, primary school and secondary school teachers; take responsibility for the introduction and administration of foreign teachers.
5. Be in charge of education funds; draft, in collaboration with relevant departments, policies and regulations on raising education funds, allocating education funds, investment in education infrastructure and education fees; guide and inspect the internal audit of the education system.
6. Guide and supervise the security management of schools; guide school security work, moral education, legal education, as well as sports, health and arts education; cooperate with relevant authorities to popularize the use of Mandarin and the standardization of Chinese characters.
7. Take charge of planning and guiding the informatization of education; guide and coordinate the construction of audio-visual education and technology equipment of schools; coordinate school capital construction in the education system.
8. Guide schools to carry out standardized logistics management; plan, guide and coordinate the R&D and popularization of science in the education system; carry out international education exchanges and cooperation.
9. Undertake other tasks assigned by the Shenzhen Municipal Government and higher authorities.