Ministry of Education: Mandarin penetration rate is raised to 80.7% of the illiterate rate to 2.7%

At the press conference of the Ministry of Education. Cover news reporter Su Yu Photography

Cover news reporter Su Yu

On September 27, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the results of my country's education reform and development since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Liu Changya, director of the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Education, stated at the meeting that the popularization rate of Putonghua across the country has increased from 70%to 80.7%, and the proportion of Chinese characters for the use of literacy population exceeds 95%, and the illiterate rate has fallen to 2.7%.

According to Liu Changya, more than 79 million graduates have been cultivated in the middle of the high school (excluding technical school) to provide more than 70%of new practitioners for modern manufacturing, strategic emerging industries and modern service industries; (It does not include adult universities.) Ten years of cumulative training has cultivated more than 77 million high -quality professionals, and continued to provide strong intellectual support for the implementation of major national strategic implementation and economic and social development.

Promote the prosperity and development of philosophy and social sciences in universities. Support the establishment of more than 36,000 research projects of the Ministry of Education's philosophy and social sciences, layout 151 key research bases of the Ministry of Education, and 30 of the Ministry of Education's Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory, and Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific Research (Humanities and Social Sciences) in the University of Education (Humanities and Social Sciences) A total of 3277 awards were selected. Universities led 38%of national high -end think tanks and undertake more than 90%of the National Social Science Fund projects.

He said that the universities directly under the Ministry of Education have become an important force for poverty alleviation and rural revitalization. The cumulative investment and introduction of assistance funds for each school will help the introduction of 663 enterprises, and the actual investment in the enterprise is 15.16 billion yuan. Cumulative training teachers were 116,400. A total of 778,000 grass -roots cadres and technical personnel were trained to help formulate 1,352 planning projects, and 1949 scientific research projects were implemented.

"Children in rural areas have improved, and they are higher. In -depth implementation of rural compulsory education students' nutrition improvement plan, covering 123,800 schools of compulsory education schools, and 350 million beneficiary students." Liu Changya said that nutritional improvement plan implementation area The average height of men and girls increased by 4.2cm and 4.1cm respectively than in 2012. The World Grain Program and other international organizations believe that "the nutritional improvement plan of rural students in China is a great plan.

In addition, in the past ten years, the average school building area of ​​kindergartens has increased from 5.8 square meters to 10.2 square meters, and the average activity room area has increased from 2.4 square meters to 4.0 square meters. Increased to 5.1 square meters, and the area of ​​indoor sporting rooms and sports fields increased from 7.3 square meters to 8.2 square meters. Through the implementation of a series of engineering projects such as "comprehensive reform", the school's appearance has been fundamentally changed. The "best and safest buildings in the school" in rural areas in the central and western regions have been recognized by the masses.

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