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Abstract In the December of 1917 ,Fu Zengxiang ,who once served as the Educational Administration Officer in the Zhili Province and won wide praises in the education upsurge in the late Qing Dynasty ,was appointed as the fourteenth Education Minister of the Republic of China . Till he quit in the May of 1919 ,there had been two presidents and three prime ministers successively in the chaotic political situations .Fu Zengxiang had been appointed as the Education Minister for three consecutive times ,and was the only one among this frequently changing group . During his first term ,Fu Zengxiang took the strategy that advanced steadily on personnel ,inherited frompredecessor Fan Yuanlian's ruling idea ,upheld theconcept of primary school first ,and took measures to promote the development of primary education ,normal education and industrial education .During his later two consecutive terms ,Fu Zengxiang advocated to put great attention on secondary education .Under his auspices ,the Education Ministry continuously held three national education conferences by following Cai Yuanpei's democratic decision-making idea ,and extended the ruling idea of primary education being first to the new thought of middle school being backbone and other education being taken into account .To concentrate on carrying out the resolutions of the three education conferences ,and still under his auspices ,the Education Ministry took measures to establish a consistent educational supervision system throughout the central and local governments ,adapting to the development of the female education requirements ,and making positive responses to the cultural and educational reforms excited by the New Culture and the May 4th Movements .All these promoted the refinement of the education system and facilitated the second peak of the development of education in the Early Republic of China .
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2012, Vol. 42 
