China has decided to keep its enrollment rate at primary schools
above 99 percent, and increase that of junior middle schools
to above 90 percent in the next five years, according to Xu
Shaoshi, deputy secretary-general of the State Council.
Statistics show
that over 190 million people have received nine- year compulsory
education since China initiated the campaign 15 years ago,
which has been realized among 85 percent of the areas in the
country so far.
The enrollment
rate at primary schools reached 99.1 percent in 2000, up nearly
3 percentage points over 1990, and the enrollment rate of
junior middle schools stood at 88.6 percent last year, according
to official sources.
Raising the coverage
rate of compulsory education across the country will be taken
as a key task in China's 10th Five-Year Plan period (2001-2005),
said Xu.
China will take
measures to narrow the gaps in the field of education among
girls and boys, disabled and healthy children, and rural and
urban areas, as well as to train more teachers and improve
school construction in underdeveloped regions, Xu said.
(People's Daily
04/29/2001)
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