Chinese leaders Saturday stressed that priority should be given
to basic education, which is considered the foundation for China
to implement the strategy of revitalizing the country through
science and education.
The Leading Group
of National Science, Technology and Education, headed by Premier
Zhu Rongji, held its ninth meeting Saturday.
Premier Zhu and
Vice-Premier Li Lanqing, deputy head of the group, told the
meeting that China will continue to popularize nine-year compulsory
education and eliminate illiteracy among young and middle-aged
people during the Tenth Five-Year Plan (2000-2005).
China will strengthen
basic education in rural areas. More junior middle schools
will be built in rural areas, and the government will offer
more aid to poverty-stricken areas in central and western
regions, they said.
Development and
reform of ethnic education will be accelerated in order to
train more professionals for areas inhabited by ethnic minorities.
The leading group
decided to hold a national working conference on basic education
and a national conference on ethnic education.
(People's Daily
04/29/2001)
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