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Government's aim for the development of China's basic education system is to approach or attain the level of moderately developed countries by 2010. Graduates of China's primary and secondary schools test highly in both basic skills and critical thinking skills; [58] however, due to poor health, rural students often drop out or lack in ...
Compulsory education is the law for youth in the People's Republic of China (PRC). After the Cultural Revolution, the slogan of compulsory education was advanced during the period of order out of chaos. It was written into the Constitution of the People's Republic of China (1982 Constitution) by Deng Xiaoping and others. [1] [2] [3]
The First Opium War of 1840, for example, opened China to the rest of the world; as a result, Chinese intellectuals discovered numerous western advances in science and technology, which greatly impacted the higher education system and curriculum in China. Tianjin University was established in 1895 and became the first modern university in China.
The Best Chinese Universities Ranking (BCUR) is a domestic ranking table of Chinese institutions of higher education. It is compiled by Shanghai Ruanke, the same agency that is behind the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). [1] In the 2024 version, 594 institutions in mainland China were assessed by the exercise. [1]
[7] [8] [9] In 2017, China had the highest number of scientific publications. [10] [11] As of 2024, China had the largest number of universities (396) including in the 2024–2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities. [8] More than 2,500 universities in China are included in the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. [12]
By 2024, most regions of the country would implement the system as the successor of their "3+X" system. "3" refers to compulsory subjects, including "Chinese, Mathematics and a foreign language", each of which accounts for 150/750 in total score.
Public schools in China are administered by the National Ministry of Education.Whilst the Ministry supervises general guidelines such as staff recruitment, national budgets and formal examinations, specific regulations directly correlated to each public school are managed by their District and Provincial Commissions of Education (Chan, 2019).
The large-scale China Education Information System has been built up. Mirroring systems for discipline-specific information of famous overseas universities, and a full-text search system for higher education and key subject information will soon be set up. CERNET is an important platform for China's remote learning initiative.