Figure 8: increased by more than 10%

Original text from the report:

We will give high priority to developing education and making it more equitable.

We will continue to allocate more education resources to the central and western regions and rural areas and promote the balanced development of compulsory education. We will comprehensively improve conditions in poorly-built and badly-run schools providing compulsory education in poor areas. The number of rural students from poor areas enrolled in key colleges and universities will again be increased by more than 10%, and this will give rural children greater opportunities to receive higher education.

Comments: Zeng Tianshan, Vice Dean of Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences

Promoting equitable development of education is the main theme of the government's education policy. In future program design we should first consider compensating for weakness and promoting overall design of equitable education program, focusing on rural education development, and stabilizing the rural education system.

Next, we should implement market mechanisms and differentiated policies. For example, policies on compulsory education, secondary vocational education, and preschool education can be flexible; they do not have to rely on the public system.