Further documents and records

In the documents and materials (wenjian ziliao) section of the MOE website there are some useful documents, including detailed record of dates for important events that have occurred in education over the past 50 years. in the 2001 detailed record of dates there are several dates that correspond to important events in the implementation of the new curriculum.
http://www.moe.edu.cn/edoas/website18/info4994.htm

these include
2月23日教育部办公厅印发《关于积极配合和推动基础教育课程改革进一步加强和改进教师培养培训工作的几点意见》。

6月8日教育部印发《基础教育课程改革纲要（试行）》。

7月30日全国基础教育课程改革实验工作会议在大连召开。教育部副部长王湛出席会议并讲话。会议部署了课程改革实验工作，确定了2001年～2005年课程改革实验的组织和推广工作进程。

9月1日义务教育新课程新学期开始进入基础教育课程改革实验区，20个学科（小学7科、中学13科）49种新课程实验教材首次在实验区试用，30万名中小学一年级新生将用上新教材。

Another section "Main points in the work of the Ministry of Education" (jiaoyu bu gongzuo yaodian) has these main points for each year since 1987. It might be interesting to conduct a trend study of these documents.

教育部2005年工作要点
教育部2004年工作要点
教育部2003年工作要点
教育部2002年工作要点
教育部2001年工作要点
教育部2000年工作要点
教育部1999年工作要点

In this section there is also access to the China Education Yearbooks 2001-2004 online! they even have some statistical tables starting in 2002. (although these have been scanned in and the quality is not great)
http://www.moe.edu.cn/edoas/website18/top_nianjian.jsp

in the 2001 yearbook i found a brief section on the new curriculum reforms in this document:

http://www.moe.gov.cn/edoas/website18/info6983.htm

another potentially interesting find is a document entitled "Global trends in basic education" which draws upon a 1995 publication of the world bank entitled something like "Education: key points and strategies" ?
基础教育的全球趋势