A first-grade student has free lunch at the new campus of Daliyaboyi Township School in Daliyaboyi Township of Yutian County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 19, 2019. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
To further reform the education system, Chinese authorities in July released a new guideline to improve the quality of compulsory education.
BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's education system has seen continued improvement in government efforts to reform and balance development in the sector, according to a report from the National Bureau of Statistics.
By the end of 2018, China had 267,000 public and private kindergartens across the country, up 4.6 percent year on year.
The number of children enrolled in the preschool system came in at 46.56 million, up 6.1 percent from a year earlier, the report noted.
People are seen at an enrolment counselling event in Fuyang, east China's Anhui Province, June 25, 2019. Higher education institutions in China have begun to provide enrolment counselling services to high school graduates following the National College Entrance Exam, or "gaokao". (Xinhua/Dai Wenxue)
Meanwhile, the graduation rate of China's nine-year compulsory education which covers primary school and junior high school, reached 94.2 percent in 2018, up 0.4 percentage points from 2017.
The country has also quickened the pace to improve high school education. China's gross enrollment ratio in high school level education reached 88.8 percent in 2018, up 0.5 percentage points from the previous year.
Regarding special education, China has 2,152 such schools in 2018 with 59,000 teachers, up 2.1 percent and 4.8 percent, respectively.
Students of a special education school attend music class in Mudanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Nov. 27, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)
To further reform the education system, Chinese authorities in July released a new guideline to improve the quality of compulsory education.
The guideline aims to develop an education system that will foster citizens with an all-around moral, intellectual, physical and cultural grounding, in addition to a hard-working spirit. ■
