China's ten years 丨 The level of education in my country has achieved a historic leap

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 9th (Reporter Hu and Wang Peng) Reporters learned from the 9 -year theme press conference of the "Ten Years of China" series of themes of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the 9th. Leaping, the popularity of education at all levels has reached or exceeded the average national average of countries, of which preschool education and compulsory education have reached the world's high -income countries average, and higher education has entered a stage of popularization.

Huai Jinpeng, director of the Ministry of Education, introduced that at present, there are nearly 530,000 schools at all levels in the country and more than 290 million students in schools. Preschool education gross entry rates were 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 percentage points; Increasing 6.4 percentage points; 57.8%of the gross enrollment rate of higher education, an increase of 27.8 percentage points. The average educational period of the labor age population is 10.9 years.

Huai Jinpeng said that the 200,000 compulsory education stage in my country established a stand -up card dropout student dynamic and cleared, and historically solved the long -term drop -out problem, and made important contributions to the establishment of a well -off society in an all -round way. All 2,895 counties in the country have achieved basically balanced compulsory education. 99.8%of the school running conditions in primary and secondary schools meet the "20 bottom lines" requirements. The school's appearance has changed a fundamental change, forming a new situation of balanced and integrated development of urban and rural compulsory education.

It is understood that my country's student funding policy system has covered the entire semester, and has funded nearly 1.3 billion students in the past ten years. 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%.

[Editor in charge: Feng Li]

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