Mass courses bring top-level education to all

China ranks first in the number of Massive Online Open Courses and viewers in the world, the Ministry of Education has said.

The mass university courses came to China around 2013, allowing people from all over the country to hear lessons simultaneously from anywhere. After six years of development, the country now has 12,500 such courses. More than 200 million people have participated, nearly triple the number in 2017, said Wu Yan, director of the ministry's higher education department.

A total of 65 million university students have also received credits through mass courses, he said at the China MOOC Conference in Beijing on Tuesday.