From 2012 to last year, the number of school dropouts from families registered as impoverished fell to zero, ensuring that no one is left behind at any time. The long-standing problem of school dropouts has been solved, especially in deeply impoverished areas.
From 2012 to last year, the expenditure per student in elementary and middle schools rose from 7,447 yuan to 14,458 yuan ($1,100 to $2,140) per elementary school student, and from 10,218 yuan to 20,717 yuan per middle school student.
A total of 44.3 million students are attending colleges and universities in China, making the country home to the largest higher education system in the world. The tertiary education gross enrollment rate reached 57.8 percent last year, up 27.8 percentage points from 2012.
A total of 240 million people have received higher education as a result of the country's historic strides in the development of tertiary education during the past decade.
China has built the world's largest vocational education system, which nurtures around 10 million graduates every year. The number of new enrollments to higher vocational colleges reached 5.57 million last year, a rise of 180 percent from 10 years ago.
The number of kindergartens has risen by almost 80 percent in the past decade, as central authorities placed greater importance on the development of preschool education. Last year, there were 295,000 kindergartens, up from 128,000 in 2011, and the number of kindergarten pupils has grown by 13.8 million in the past decade to 48 million last year.
