Welcome to China

With 23 provinces including the island of Taiwan China, China borders 14 countries including Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Among the major countries of the world, China is surpassed in area by only Russia and Canada, and it is almost as large as the whole of Europe. China is the largest of all Asian countries and has the largest population of any country in the world. It occupies nearly the entire East Asian landmass and covers approximately one-fourteenth of the Earth’s land area.

 

 

Education

Education in China is a state-run system of public education run by the Ministry of Education. All citizens must attend school for at least nine years, known as the nine-year compulsory education, which is funded by the government.

 

Chinese leaders have sought to improve educational quality and increase access across the country. The most notable government policy, the 1986 Law on Nine-Year Compulsory Education, called for achievement of the ‘two basics’ (liangji): universal enrolment among school-aged children (6-15 years) and full literacy among those under the age of 20.

 

Compulsory education includes six years of primary education, starting at age six or seven, and three years of junior secondary education (junior middle school) for ages 12 to 15. Some provinces may have five years of primary school but four years for junior middle school. After junior middle school, there are three years of senior middle school, which then completes the secondary education.

Students born into affluent families generally have greater access to high-quality education than those from lower income backgrounds. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics suggest that urban residents in China enjoy a nearly threefold income advantage over their rural counterparts.

 

People

Almost one in five people on our earth live in China, while the country is smaller than the USA. The Chinese government lifted the one-child policy in 2016, now Chinese parents are allowed to have two children. Many Chinese live in the ‘megacities’ of the country. Megacities are cities with more than 10 million inhabitants. In 2018, of the 33 megacities in the world, six were located in China.

 

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