Ministry of Education： The population with university education in China exceeds 218 million.

CCTV News:The Ministry of Education held a press conference today (September 27th) to introduce the achievements of China’s education reform and development since the 18th CPC National Congress. Liu Changya, director of the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Education, said that in 2021, there were 529,300 schools of all levels and types nationwide with 291 million students; Compared with 2012, there are more than 6,300 schools and more than 28 million students.

There are 295,000 kindergartens in China, with 48.052 million preschool children, and the gross enrollment rate has reached 88.1%, an increase of 23.6 percentage points in ten years, achieving basic popularization. In the compulsory education stage, there are 207,000 schools with 160 million students. From 2012 to 2021, the net enrollment rate of primary schools in China has increased from 99.85% to over 99.9%, and the gross enrollment rate of junior high schools has always remained above 100%, which has been fully popularized. There are 22,000 high school education schools with 39.764 million students, with a gross enrollment rate of 91.4%, an increase of 6.4 percentage points in ten years. There are 3,012 institutions of higher education, with a total enrollment of 44.3 million students, an increase of more than 11 million students in ten years, with a gross enrollment rate of 57.8%, an increase of 27.8 percentage points in ten years and nearly doubling.

The popularization of education at all levels has reached or exceeded the average level of middle-and high-income countries, among which the popularization of compulsory education has reached the average level of high-income countries in the world, and higher education has achieved a historic leap from popularization to popularization.

In 2021, the average length of education of the working-age population reached 10.9 years, equivalent to the level of the second year of high school, an increase of one year over 2012. Among them, the proportion with higher education was 24.9%, an increase of 10.3 percentage points over 2012. The population with university education in China exceeds 218 million, and the national quality has been continuously improved, which has provided strong intellectual support for high-quality economic development and injected strong impetus into national rejuvenation.