Education must reach all: Wen

Premier Wen Jiabao has urged education policymakers to devise practical schemes to ensure that the poor have equal access to education.

Policymakers should consider regional economic imbalances and differences in urban and rural residents' incomes, while working out education schemes, he told the State Council in late August. His speech will be published by the People's Daily for the first time on Monday.

An urban-rural income disparity exists despite the country's great economic achievements, he said, and hence, policies should be based on reality and help the poor to get proper education.