By 2018, net primary school enrollment rate in China had reached 99.91 percent, and the 88.3 percent gross enrolment ratio for high school in China has surpassed the 86.7 percent average for the world's middle- and high-income countries, the scholar noted.
What's more, China has started to implement a 15-year free education in ethnic minority regions such as Tibet and Xinjiang.
For all students undergoing compulsory education, textbooks are free and tuition and miscellaneous fees are exempted, while allowances are provided for boarders from poor rural families. Nutrition programs are offered so that rural students during the period of compulsory education could enjoy free lunch. Between 2011 and 2018 some 37 million rural students across China had benefited from the programs.
In addition, China has been offering free vocational education for children from poor families, and supporting rural labor force with vocational training, Shang said. By 2018, 80 percent of the students at vocational schools were from rural areas, while the rest 20 percent were mainly from low-income urban families, he added.
In the area of higher education, China has been working to ensure equal opportunity and access for students from poor families, by offering scholarships, grants, paid part-time jobs, student loans, and subsidies for poor students.
The eradication of poverty is the biggest challenge facing the world today. In the past 70 years, China has embarked on a road of poverty alleviation with its own features, and is willing to share its experiences with other countries to build a better world without poverty and want, Shang concluded.
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