The Economic Literacy Among the Chinese High School Students (Part 1)

Abstract

In today's society, mankind is at a turning point in the context of the fourth industrial revolution and changes in new technologies and production models, which is raising a higher requirement for future labour. In this article, we look at the economic facets of basic education in China, since the mindset of young people is vital to developing a prosperous and better future civilization for mankind. The main topic of our paper is to analyze the economic literary level of the average high school students to assume how they can react and make a contribution to the coming fourth industrial revolution and the future civilization. The research relies on the materials of Chinese high school students’ actual textbooks related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Economics, and the book The Future of Humanity: Global Civilization and China's Rejuvenation by Professor Jin Zhouying. During the process of research, we found that, on the one hand, basic economics knowledge during the middle school period is helpful to students' daily life. On the other hand, some of the economics knowledge learned by middle school students cannot catch up with the trends and the texts are scattered in different subject textbooks. Therefore, due to innovative knowledge of youth, the relevant high school economics textbooks should be more keeping up with the times and provide more systematic and professional economic knowledge.