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Much Achieved in Basic EducationChina has made obvious achievements in basic education for all of its people in the past decade, including giving education a position of priority on the government's working agenda, an official with the Ministry of Education said March 29.Lin Zhihua, an official from the ministry's Development and Planning Department made this remark at "Basic Education Forum -- Education for All: Progress since 1990 and Challenges Ahead." She noted that China began education reform at the beginning of the 1990s with the goal of realizing basic education for all people. The goal includes nine-year compulsory education in heavily populated urban areas and five to six-year compulsory education in the country's less developed rural regions. Lin said that China has made great achievements in developing pre-school education, enlarging the basic education enrollment rate, and reducing the youth illiteracy rate from 10.4 percent in 1990 to five percent last year. "Education for All" is a global initiative involving more than 180 countries with the goal of promoting national strategies for providing basic education and the basis for international dialogue and cooperation. The forum is co-sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund, the Chinese Ministry of Education.
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