Unlicensed schools put to quality test

BEIJING - The central government will launch a campaign to overhaul the country's large number of unlicensed kindergartens, said a senior official with the Ministry of Education (MOE) on Tuesday.

Those schools that meet the new standards will be granted licenses.

"Unlicensed private-run kindergartens became popular because public-funded, low-cost kindergartens were not numerous enough," Li Tianshun, deputy director of the second basic education department under the MOE, told a news conference on Tuesday.