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Updated: 2005-03-02 10:11
 
China sees progress in education

教育部在3月2日举行的新闻发布会上用一组数字解析了2004年中国教育事业发展状况,义务教育有喜有忧,高等教育规模加大,是过去一年我国教育事业的主要特征。据教育部发展规划司司长韩进介绍,到2004年底,全国普及九年义务教育地区人口覆盖率达到93.6%,比上年提高了1.8个百分点。

 

China sees progress in education
Children of China's Dong minority group are doing their home work in the remote village of southwest Guizhou Province on February 28, 2005.

By the end of 2004, 93.6 percent of Chinese children are receiving nine years of compulsory education, marking further advancement of China's educational cause.

Han Jin, a senior official with the Chinese Ministry of Education, said this at a press conference, adding that achievements were also made in five other aspects of China's education during the past year.

According to 2004 statistics, the enrollment rate of China's primary education was 98.95 percent, 0.3 percent higher than the previous year. Enrollment rate for girls, in particular, was 98.93 percent, which was almost the same with that of boys.

In high schools, the enrollment rate was also an obvious increase. Last year, about 13.7 million students were received by high schools, which made the total number of on-campus students reach 36.07 million. In the meantime, professional training schools at this level also developed in a stable way, as 14,500 schools enrolled a total 5.48 million students in the year 2004, up 6.28 percent over the previous year.

In 2004, the size of China's higher education was further enlarged with 2,236 schools of various types and more than 20 million on-campus students, Han said The enrollment rate of higher education was 19 percent, two percentage points higher than the previous year.

China also made great efforts in kindergarten education and special education for disabled children, Han said. In 2004, number of kindergartens in China reached 117,900 with the newly added 1, 509. Special schools for disabled enrolled 50,800 people, making the total number of on-campus students 371,800.

Private schools, under the protection of newly issued laws and regulations, were boosted. By the end of last year, China had 78, 500 private schools with 1.77 million students. Around 1.4 million people chose to study at private universities and colleges.

Han also noted that the illiteracy rate has been limited to below four percent.

Nevertheless, the old problems in China's education still exist, such as the gap between educational investment and people's demand and the difficulties in education in rural areas, Han said.

(China Daily)

 

Vocabulary:
 

kindergarten education :(幼儿教育)

special education :(特殊教育)

illiteracy: ignorance resulting from not reading(文盲)

 

 
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