EDUCATION IN CHINA



China's location in the world



           Education in China:

General information of China :

Capital of China is Beijing  Area : 16,800 square kilometers population:14.93 million(by 2004)

China climate information:  China lies mainly in the northern temperature zone under the influence of monsoon. From September and October to March and April next year monsoon blow from 

Siberia and the Mangolia platue in to China and decrease in force as it goes 

southward , causing dry and cold winter in the country and temperature 

difference of 40 degree centigrade  between north and south.

Education system in China:

In China, the education system is divided into

three categories: 

1)Basic Education,

2) Higher Education and

3) Adult education.

The compulsory education law stipulates that

each child have 9 years of formal education.

                                    The Education system in the People's Republic 
of China is a state-run system of public education run by the Ministry of Education. All citizens 
must attend school for atleast nine years.The Governoment provides primary education for six 
years starting at age six or seven , followed by six years of secondary education for ages 12  to 18.




                                                                          China has had a major expansion in education, increasing number of undergraduates ,and people who had doctoral degrees fivefold in 10 years.

In 2003 China supported 1,552 institutions of higher learning (colleges and universities) and their 725,000 professors and 11 million students . There are over 100 National Key Universities, including Beijing University and Tsinghua University. 

The official Education and Research website for China is http://www.edu.cn/