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China popularizing higher education
www.chinanews.cn 2005-10-14 14:37:27
Chinanews, Oct 13 - Yesterday, the Ministry of Education released China's
educational progress and major reform achievements during the "Tenth
Five-Year Plan" period, showing that the country has laid emphasis on
development of education in rural areas and effectively stimulated
popularization and consolidation of compulsory education. Higher
education has entered a phase of popularization, with the quality of its
people prominently improved.
The rapid development of education has enabled China to initially fulfill
its goal of turning a nation with large population into a nation with
vast human resources. By 2004, people above 15 years old received 8.3
years of education on average, and degree holders reached 70 million. The
average level of education rose from primary school to junior high school.
A spokesperson of the Ministry of Education said that China has given top
priority to development of education in rural areas, having implemented a
series of major projects such as "compulsory education programs in
poverty-stricken areas" and "'Two basic' Education Program in the West"
(to basically popularize nine-year compulsory education and eliminate
illiterate youth and middle aged), and effectively popularized and
consolidated compulsory education. By 2004, coverage of "Two-Basic" for
the population reached 93.6%, and gross enrollment rate in junior middle
schools reached 94.1%. Illiteracy rate of the young and middle-aged was
around 4%, and adult literacy rate was in the leading group among
developing countries with large population.
In 2004, total enrollment of higher education exceeded 20 million,
including 13.33 million college students and junior college students and
820,000 graduate students on campus, 2.4 times and 2.7 times that of
2000, respectively. Higher education recorded a gross enrollment rate of
above 19%, entering an internationally recognized stage of popularization.
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