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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) — China, which has the world's largest education system, has taken consistent and carefully considered steps to enhance its global competitiveness in education.
In March 2021, China unveiled the country's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), which put forward a series of goals in the education sector as part of the country's efforts to build a modernized socialist country.
These goals include ensuring equal access to basic education, improving vocational education, enhancing the quality of higher education and deepening reforms in this area.
More than four years later, the results and statistics summarized at a press conference on Tuesday show that China has not only achieved its goals but also made breakthroughs in many areas of the education sector.
"China has built the largest and highest-quality education system globally, ensuring strong guarantees for equal access for children," Education Minister Huai Jinpeng said at a press conference.
One of the country's key achievements is that basic education development has reached the average level of high-income countries. Access to high-quality compulsory education has steadily expanded, with 2,895 counties nationwide achieving balanced development in this area. China also increased subsidies for needy students. From 2021 to 2024, a total of 630 million students received subsidies. The amount of subsidies distributed exceeded 1.2 trillion yuan (approximately $169 billion).
In addition, the gross enrolment rate in pre-primary education reached 92 percent, exceeding the target of 90 percent set for the period 2021-2025, while the gross enrolment rate in higher education rose to 60.8 percent, slightly exceeding the target of 60 percent.
Over the past four years, Chinese higher education institutions have graduated more than 55 million people and won more than 75 percent of the country's national awards in natural sciences and technological inventions.
“Chinese universities have made breakthroughs in areas such as life sciences, quantum technology, artificial intelligence, materials science, and space science, and have also made progress in philosophy, social sciences, culture, and the arts,” the minister noted.
China has also created the world's largest vocational education system. As Vice Minister of Education Xiong Sihao announced at a press conference on Tuesday, the country currently has 9,302 secondary vocational schools, 1,562 higher vocational schools, and 87 undergraduate schools. They enroll a total of 34 million people.
China is also making efforts to integrate manufacturing and education to better link talent development with regional economic and industrial development.
During this period, China has undertaken comprehensive reforms in the education sector. These include optimizing the allocation of resources to basic education, improving the college entrance examination system, and diversifying professional development pathways for university students.
China's education sector is also increasingly opening up to the outside world. The country has created the world's largest intelligent education platform, providing high-quality services to over 170 million users from over 200 countries and regions.
According to data released at the press conference, China has carried out educational cooperation and exchanges with 183 countries and regions around the world, signed agreements on mutual recognition of education, qualifications and academic degrees with 61 countries and regions around the world, and cooperated with 42 countries and regions in the management of joint educational institutions and programs. -0-
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