Much-needed kindergartens are on the way

Beijing will build and renovate 118 kindergartens during the next three years, targeting areas including Tiantongyuan where public education is in great demand, the education chief of the city said.

Liu Limin, director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education, made the comments during a radio show in response to a question from a mother in Tiantongyuan, who asked why the densely populated area in Changping district, north Beijing, with a population of 40,000, had no public kindergarten.

The mother surnamed Ma also complained that the education quality offered by the few primary schools in the area was very poor.