Abstract: The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China emphasized advancing reforms through the building a strong education country strategy to facilitate Chinese-style modernization.As a long-term national plan and systematic framework for overall societal development,the construction of a strong education country holds foundational,guiding,and strategic significance in the process of achieving common prosperity.It relies on improving national quality,cultivating innovative talents,optimizing social structure,and enhancing cultural soft power to empower the people to achieve coordinated and unified material and spiritual prosperity,reflecting the mechanism of creating a pattern of common prosperity,upholding the bottom line of common prosperity,empowering high-quality common prosperity,and nurturing spiritual common prosperity.In response to current challenges such as imbalances and inadequacies in the education system,fragmented and homogenous research paradigms limiting overall efficiency,heterogeneous urban-rural development and unequal regional resources hindering poverty-alleviating growth,the digital divide and algorithmic risks exacerbating income inequality and obstructing educational technology empowerment,and insufficient public cultural services and low cultural consumption levels impeding spiritual wealth,this paper proposes strategies to construct a convergence education paradigm to transform the demographic dividend into a talent dividend,leverage education to reduce inequality and expand the middle class,promote urban-rural integration in counties,accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence in education to optimize labor market strategies,strengthen the ethical foundation of education,and shape the ethics of a Chinese-style cultural institution.

Key words: the construction of a strong education country, common prosperity, spiritual prosperity, convergence education, digital transformation of education