Candidates walk in the campus of Nanjing University of the Arts in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 15, 2018. Some 2,300 students are expected to enroll from a total of 56,800 candidates in undergraduate degrees. (Xinhua/Su Yang)

China issues guideline to deepen reform on undergraduate education and teaching and improve the quality of universities' talent-cultivation work.

BEIJING, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Education has issued a guideline to deepen the reform on the country's undergraduate education and teaching and improve the quality of universities' talent-cultivation work.

The guideline, dated late September and published by the ministry on its website Saturday, proposed four areas for further reform, which are the management of education and teaching work, systems of education and teaching, teaching personnel and organizational guarantee.

The aim of the guideline is to "nurture a new generation of capable young people who have a good and all-round moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetical grounding in addition to a hard-working spirit and are well-prepared to join the socialist cause," according to the guideline. ■