To implement the thought of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and instructions of “accelerated efforts to build China into a leading country in education” stressed by Xi Jinping, general secretary of CPC Central Committee on the fifth group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Faculty of Education (FOE) of Beijing Normal University (BNU), and Chaoyang District People’s Government of Beijing Municipality are to co-organize the “International Conference on Evidence-based Education (ICEBE)”. Furthermore, another focus of the conference is to advance the implementation of education and teaching reform actions, such as "Adhere to evidence-based decision-making" and "establish evidence-based decision-making mechanisms" which are mentioned in the “Action Plan for Deepening the Teaching Reform of the Basic Education Curriculum” issued by the Ministry of Education (MOE) of People’s Republic of China.