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China pledges to ensure fair, high quality education in decade ahead

08:33, March 01, 2010      

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The Chinese government pledges to improve the quality of education and enable people to enjoy fairer education through more investment and reforms in the coming decade.

The draft of the National Outline for Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development (2010-2020) was published Sunday for public opinions.

The amount of government investment on education annually will increase to 4 percent of the country's total GDP by 2012, according to the outline. The proportion was 3.48 percent of its GDP in 2008.

Ding Xuedong, vice minister of finance, indicated on Sunday that the four-percent target was ambitious but also challenging because other sectors such as agriculture, science and technology, health care and social security need investment, too.

"Governments at all levels will have to make greater efforts to ensure the fulfillment of the target," Ding said.

He said the government would increase its education budget through more effective taxation and better management on education funds.

Education Minister Yuan Guiren said at a press conference Sunday in Beijing that the top task in the coming ten years was to guarantee equal access to education while enhancing the quality of education.

"To achieve the goal, local government at all levels should give top priority to the development of education and strive to deepen the education reform through innovation," Yuan said.

China will invest more to improve facilities in elementary and middle schools, such as school buildings, teaching equipment, libraries, sports facilities and lodging conditions, particularly for rural schools, the outline said.

More college graduates will be encouraged to teach at elementary and middle schools in remote and poor areas to improve the quality of education there, it said.

China will support the development of vocational education and carry out pilot reforms to allow vocational schools to better serve demands of enterprises.

High schools, colleges and universities shall adopt more flexible enrollment policies, rather than just using examination marks, in order to encourage comprehensive development of students, according to the outline.

The outline said private education will be greatly encouraged and unfavorable policies against them shall be eliminated.

There were about 100,000 privately-run schools in the country which educated about 28 million students in 2008.

The outline said children of migrant workers would be able to sit high school exam in areas where their parents work, a step which would allow equal opportunities of education to those children.

The outline also called for the removal of bureaucracy-like management at schools, which was seen as a hurdle of education development in China.

Source: Xinhua

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08:44, March 01, 2010      

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BEIJING: China will use its full repertoire of diplomatic skills to deal with international affairs, but there may be issues beyond its influence, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has said amid growing global expectations of China exerting a greater role in world affairs.

As the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) - China's top legislature - convenes this week, foreign policy remains in the spotlight over a series of thorny affairs.

China's stand on the Iran nuclear program, its efforts to help rekindle the stalled Six-Party Talks on resolving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, and how it handles challenges such as climate change are on the list of contentious issues.

In an interview with China Daily before the NPC session, Yang said China "will never shirk from international roles that are within our capacity, and will continue to meet our global obligations. At the same time, China, as a developing country, will make more contributions within its capacity to world peace and development."

"We won't do things that go beyond our strength and current level of development."

Yang made the remarks in the context of China's rising role in world affairs, which has generated both expectations of the country playing a bigger role and uneasiness about its development.

According to Yang, the rising global role has given China unprecedented opportunities in its diplomacy.

"We have a more solid basis to strengthen cooperation with other countries, more methods at our disposal to safeguard the favorable external environment, more diversified ways to promote the interests of developing countries in the international arena, and more enabling conditions for making the international order more equitable and reasonable."

However, as other countries seek more cooperation with China on major world affairs, they hold higher expectations, Yang said.

"There are those who really want China to play a bigger role; and those who overestimate China's strength, exaggerate and play up China's capacity to influence world affairs."

He called for an objective and rational examination of the spectrum of discussion on China.

During the past several years, China's success in holding the Olympics, handling the global financial crisis and combating climate change has thrust the country into the global limelight and made it the focus of world attention, according to Yang.

We need to look at those comments on China's international role in an objective and rational way, and with the full understanding that China will for long remain a developing country, Yang said.

"We need to discuss in a matter-of-fact manner the achievements we've made, the international influence we enjoy and the challenges confronting us in foreign affairs."


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