Lecture 14: Cultural, Educational, and Health Services Planning Tables

The cultural, educational, and health services plan is part of the national economic plan. It is a plan that reflects the increase in people's cultural standard of living. Its basic tasks are determined by the present political and economic tasks of the state. Its basic tasks are: (1) to train all kinds of manpower for the state, the most important being industrial technicians and scientific researchers; and (2) to improve gradually the cultural life of the working people on the basis of developing production and increasing labor productivity. To make the development of cultural, educational, and health services match the needs of the state and the people, when formulating the cultural, educational, and health services plan, we must conduct a comprehensive study taking into account the policies of the Party and state regarding all the cultural, educational, and health services, the degree to which the quantity of state financial resources can be increased, the subjective feasibilities inherent in the development patterns of all the cultural and educational services, the needs of the state and the people for cultural, educational, and health services, and the historical conditions of different services and different regions. To satisfy the daily increasing cultural needs of the people, we must also rely on the masses and mobilize mass enthusiasm for running various mass cultural, educational, and health services in addition to those cultural, educational, and health services operated by the state.