Pickups ｜ The Ministry of Education: At present, 530,000 students in various schools in the country exceed 290 million

Cover Journalist Dai Rui Su Yu

A few days ago, the Central Propaganda Department launched the "China Ten Years of Ten Years · Series Theme Release". The column of the cover news "Picking the Year" will pay attention to the whole process, reporting to China's achievements and changes in the past decade.

On September 9, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on educational reform and development. At the press conference, the Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng introduced that at present, there are nearly 530,000 schools at all levels in the country and more than 290 million students in the school.

Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng. Picture source: Guoxin Office

Huai Jinpeng introduced that the current margin rate of preschool education in my country is 88.1%, an increase of 23.6 percentage points from ten years ago; on the basis of achieving comprehensive popularization, nine -year compulsory education consolidation rate reached 95.4%, an increase of 3.6 more than ten years ago. Hundred percent points; high school education gross enrollment rate 91.4%, an increase of 6.4 percentage points; higher education gross enrollment rates of 57.8%, an increase of 27.8 percentage points. The popularity of education at all levels has reached or exceeded the average of countries in the middle and high -income countries. Among them, preschool education and compulsory education have reached the world average of high -income countries in the world, and higher education has entered a stage of popularization. The average educational period of the labor age population is 10.9 years.

The 200,000 compulsory education stage established a file to set up a card dropout student dynamically, and historically solved the long -term drop -out problem, and made important contributions to the comprehensive building of a well -off society. All 2,895 counties in the country have achieved basically balanced compulsory education, and 99.8%of the school running conditions in primary and secondary schools meet the "20" bottom line requirements. The school's appearance has fundamentally improved, forming a new situation of balanced and integrated development of urban and rural compulsory education. The student funding policy system covers the entire semester, and has funded nearly 1.3 billion students in the past ten years. Continue to implement special programs for students such as rural areas and other regions, and accumulate more than 950,000 students. There are special education schools with more than 300,000 people, and the enrollment rate of compulsory education for children with disabilities reaches more than 95%.

"In the past ten years, the education service capabilities have steadily improved, providing strong talent and intellectual support for the implementation of major national strategic implementation and economic and social development." Huai Jinpeng introduced that the country with a degree of university has more than 218 million, a significant increase over ten years ago. Implementation of basic disciplines and top talent training programs, deepening the reform of the master doctoral training of engineering, strengthening college students' innovation and entrepreneurship education, and accelerating the training of urgent need of shortage of talents. Optimize the positioning of vocational education types, promote the integration of vocational Putong, deepen the integration of production and education.

The construction of "double first -class" has been promoted solidly, and several disciplines have entered the forefront of world -class disciplines. The innovation capabilities of colleges and universities continued to improve. In the past ten years, 67%of the National Natural Science Awards and 72%of the National Technology Invention Award have been won. For three consecutive years, they have won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award. "Nine Chapters" quantum computer, independently developed my country's first set of large maritime twisting and dredging equipment "Sky Whale", the world's first ball bed module -type high -temperature gas -cold pile nuclear power plant, and my country's first anti -new coronary virus antibody drug. It has made important contributions in these original innovation and key core technology research.

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