Education in China

Since the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 to 1976, the development or the education system in China has been geared particularly to the advancement or economic modernization.1 Amonq important efforts taken to improve the country's educational system were (1) the 1984 decision to enact several major laws on education, and (2) a 1985 plan to reform the educational system. In the reform plan, the government of the PRC introduced a requirement for nine years of compulsory education. The reform plan also established the State Education Commission. The Seventh Five Year plan (covering the 19861990 time period) provided a 72 percent increase in the level of financial resources committed to education in the PRC.2 Viewed in another context, funding for education in 1986 accounted for 16.8 percent of the national budget, compared to just 10.4 percent in 1984. Since the creation of the PRC in 1949, attempts have been made in the PRC to put an end to academic elitism.3 Formal efforts to attain this goal were components of both The Great Lea

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g foreign participation in the PRC economy. Internal economic changes were concerned primarily with the degree of centralization in economic management, while those related to increasing foreign economic participation were concerned with developing the parameters of such participation. Lastly, all of the aspects of economic planning in China are coordinated with the country's overall social planning, of which a key element is population planning. Population planning is both extensive and specific, with policies dealing with growth, distribution, and other factors. The singlechild family policy will likely change the fabric of Chinese society. This policy will also affect the supply of labor in the country, and will quite likely affect the urbanrural dichotomy through labor competition, if in no other way. Thus, the impact of the economic reforms must also be evaluated within the context of the larger social goals and programs of the country. THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN THE PRC The PRC kas a vast and varied educational system. There are preschools, kindergartens, schools for the deaf and for the blind, key schools (which are similar to college preparatory high schools), primary schools, secondary schools (which inc
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