This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2016-09-09 08:39
Item from September 9, 1998, in China Daily: Education officials are targeting the young and middle-aged in an ambitious program to eradicate illiteracy.
Their goal is to have illiterate people, between the ages of 15 to 50 that live in areas comprising 90 percent of the population, reading and writing by the year 2000.
When China resumed its college entrance examination, or gaokao, in 1977 after it was suspended during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76), only 4.7 percent of the 5.7 million students who signed up for the exam had enrolled in colleges.
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