Abstract: To construct an education power, education needs to cultivate “new generations” who are worthy of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and who can establish a connection between history and reality, tradition and modernity. To foster national roots and new generations has become a key issue in achieving an education power. The high-quality education knowledge system provides a strong internal driving force for the construction of an education power, while it also confronts with development challenges in knowledge production, knowledge attributes, and knowledge contributions. To consolidate the cornerstone of an education power, 1) the high-quality educational knowledge system should highlight the combination of organizational, autonomous, and conscious scientific research; 2) the disciplines, domains, and school forms of academic research should complement each other; 3) the basic construction path of “drawing on the experience from our ancestors’ gains and foreign achievements” should be adopted. The rule of law is an important guarantee for educational reform and development. Empowering an education power through the rule of law means to promote educational modernization with the thinking and methods based on rule of law, to build a system based on rule of law that conforms to the laws of socialist education with Chinese characteristics, and to focus on law-related education and publicity so as to remove obstacles of empowering an education power through the rule of law, thus providing strong support for cultivating socialist builders and successors with an all-round moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic grounding. Empowering an education power with digital technology means to build a lifelong learning society for all, and to rely on digital technology to build a more flexible, resource-rich, and convenient mechanism for promoting lifelong learning for all. The key and focus of “high-quality development” in education lie both in teachers as its realization relies on teachers. Teachers are the backbone and strong guarantee of “high-quality development” in education. We should focus on strengthening the construction of the teaching staff as the most important basic work in building an education power, improve the teacher education system with Chinese characteristics, and vigorously cultivate and foster high-quality staff, reasonable in structure, full of vitality, with noble ethics and exquisite professional skills.

Key words: an education power, new generation, empowerment of the rule of law, empowerment of digital technology, educational knowledge system, teachers, teachers education