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Describe the schools in China in English.

An Overview of Education in China

Since the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), eliminating illiteracy and popularizing compulsory education has been an important task of the China government. At present, the net enrollment rate of primary schools in China is 98.58%, and the gross enrollment rate of junior high schools reaches 90%. In contrast, 1949 only 20% of school-age children go to school, and 80% of adults are illiterate. Today, the illiteracy rate of young and middle-aged people in China has dropped below 5%, and 90% of the population-populated areas have basically achieved nine-year compulsory education.

The past decade has witnessed the fastest development of education in China. For example, ten years ago, few institutions offered MBA. In 2003, about 62 schools offered MBA courses and enrolled about 30,000 MBA students. It also offers international professional degrees, such as EMBA (Master of Business Administration in Employment) and MPA (Master of Public Administration). With regard to the MPA degree, the the State Council Academic Degrees Committee has authorized 47 universities and colleges in China to award this degree, and at present, 7,700 students have registered.

International cooperation and exchanges in the field of education are increasing year by year. China is the country with the largest number of international students in the world. Since 65438 +0979, about 582,000 China students have studied in 103 countries and regions, of which160,000 have returned home after completing their studies. Meanwhile, the number of foreign students studying in China has also increased. In 2003, 86,000 students from 170 countries studied in universities in China.

The prosperity of education in China is partly due to the increase in investment. Since 1998, the proportion of funds spent by the central government on education has increased by 1 percentage point every year. In 2003, the national government expenditure on education was 349,654.38 million yuan, accounting for 346,543.8 million yuan of GDP, up by 0.22 percentage point over the previous year, the highest level since the monitoring of 6,543.8 billion yuan began.

According to the development plan of the Ministry of Education, the government will establish an educational financial system that is compatible with the public financial system, strengthen the responsibility of governments at all levels for investment in education, and ensure that the growth rate of government financial allocation for education is higher than the growth rate of recurrent fiscal revenue. The plan also sets a goal, trying to make education investment account for 4% of GDP in a relatively short period of time. For non-compulsory education, China has a system of sharing costs with students, and collects tuition fees according to a certain proportion of the education cost. At the same time, in order to protect the education rights of students from poor families, the China Municipal Government provides scholarships, work-study programs, financial assistance to students with special financial difficulties, tuition fee remission and national student loans.

The government is committed to providing more and more educational opportunities, which is shown by a plan of the Ministry of Education. According to this plan, by 2020, out of every 65,438+000,000 people, 65,438+03,500 people will have college education and about 36,543+000 people will have high school diplomas. The proportion of illiterate or semi-illiterate people will fall below 3%; The average educational years of the whole population will increase from the current 8 years to 1 1 year.

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The education system in China today.

Nowadays, education in China is developing rapidly. Most children start school at the age of six. They have compulsory education for five or six years in primary school and three years in junior high school.

After that, some people can attend professional schools for two to three years before working. Some people go to high school for three years. Students must pass a series of exams before entering a college or university. College or university life lasts two to four years. Now part of the expenses are provided by their families, although students can get support from the school. After graduation, they can look for jobs.

Although great changes have taken place in the field of education in China, there are still many places to be improved.

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Education in China is facing great challenges. Compared with the advanced education system, the problems of education in China are obvious. After a series of social problems caused by unreasonable educational methods and excessive pursuit of students' high marks, it is imperative to develop an education system for ability training.

First of all, our educational concept pays attention to the result, not the learning process; We study for grades from primary school to university. Second, the diploma is the only criterion to measure our ability; Without enough diplomas, we can't find a good job, let alone a promotion. Under such pressure, we are busy with postgraduate exams and study abroad to become white-collar workers, so we have little time or energy to think about things that have nothing to do with us, let alone the interests of our country.

Therefore, for this result of education in China, education reform should focus on two basic aspects. First, pay attention to educational procedures. The country should update the traditional values of human resources, and we should abandon the idea of score first. Schools should pay attention to the learning process and strive to improve students' comprehensive ability. Second, improve teachers' ability. A good teacher should treat students kindly and give them advice in various fields, because teachers should not only improve students' imagination and creativity, but also tell them the correct way of life and the way to treat the world.

In a word, we should face up to the problems in the past few years and learn from them, so as to accelerate the development of education in China.

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Higher education in China

Great achievements have been made in the reform and development of higher education since the reform and opening up. A multi-form higher education system covering all disciplines, combining academic education with non-academic education, and combining college education, undergraduate education and postgraduate education has been formed. Higher education in China has trained a large number of senior talents and experts for socialist modernization, and played an important role in economic construction, scientific and technological progress and social development.

In 2002, there were 2003 higher education institutions, of which 1396 were general higher education institutions and 607 were adult higher education institutions. In 2002, the total number of students enrolled in colleges and universities was 3.205 million, and the total number of students enrolled was 9.0336 million. The total enrollment of adult higher education institutions and the total enrollment are 1,175,000 and 2,223,200 respectively. Universities and research institutions have enrolled 202,600 graduate students, including 38,400 doctors and 64,200 masters/kloc-0. In 2002, the total number of graduate students enrolled was 50 1 000.

China's economic system used to be highly centralized. Correspondingly, the previous higher education system was also centralized, and education was provided by the central and local governments respectively and directly managed by them. The shortcomings of this system are that the state has taken on too many responsibilities, schools lack the flexibility and autonomy to provide education according to social needs, and the central departments and local governments provide education separately, so the education structure is unreasonable and fragmented. There are too many single-subject colleges and specialized colleges, overlapping disciplines and low efficiency in some colleges, which hinders the improvement of education quality. Therefore, the reform of higher education system has become the key to other higher education reforms. The reform of higher education includes five parts: education supply reform, management reform, investment reform, enrollment and employment reform and school internal management reform, among which management reform is the most important and difficult. The overall goal of higher education reform is to straighten out the relationship between the government, society and institutions of higher learning, and to establish and improve a new system in which the state is responsible for overall planning and macro-management, and institutions of higher learning run schools independently according to law.

After several years' efforts, the reform of higher education system has made gratifying achievements. In the field of education supply reform, the old system that the state undertakes to establish all higher education institutions has been broken, and a new system that the government undertakes the main responsibility and the society and individuals actively participate is taking shape. Fully encourage and support social forces to run schools.

In the aspect of management system reform, the relationship among universities, government and society has been gradually straightened out through co-construction, adjustment, cooperation and merger. The central government and local governments bear different responsibilities for education supply, and a two-level education supply system in which the central government is responsible for overall planning and management has been formed. Therefore, the overlapping of education is overcome. At the same time, the government has streamlined the administrative organs, given more power to institutions of higher learning, and expanded their autonomy in providing education for the society according to law.