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What has China achieved in improving people's livelihoods?

By Wu Xiaobo | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-06-22 06:47

6. Better education

What has China achieved in improving people's livelihoods?

Beijing Film Academy students pose for graduation photos in Beijing, July 2, 2015. [Photo/Asianewsphoto.com]

The average years of schooling for people at or above the age of 15 increased from 9.05 in 2010 to 9.42 in 2015.

The nine-year compulsory education has been made universal. The gross enrollment ratio in higher education reached 42.7 percent in 2016, up 12.7 percentage points from 2012.

The country has constantly improved facilities of schools engaged in compulsory education in impoverished areas since 2013. It has scrapped tuition and miscellaneous fees for rural high school students from impoverished families since 2016.

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