Parents look to sessions for more kindergartens

BEIJING - Parents, competing for kindergarten spots for their children, expect the country's top legislators and political advisers who will attend the two upcoming important political sessions to contribute their wisdom to ease their grueling task.

Premier Wen Jiabao, who delivered his work report to the National People's Congress last year, pledged to speed up providing more educational resources in this sector by boosting the development of both public and private kindergartens.

In 2010, there were about 150,400 kindergartens nationwide, offering places for more than 29.7 million children, based on the latest statistics from the Ministry of Education, translating into an enrollment rate of 56.6 percent.