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Facts and Figures about China Education

• Education Budget in 2008: 56.2 Billion yuan RMB (about US$ 8.11 billion), this figure is a 45% increase over the year of 2007.

• The total number of graduates from colleges and universities in 2004: 2.8 million (last year figure is 2.12 million)

• School in China - Starting Age: Primary 6-7 years; Secondary 11-12 years; College: 16 years

• Chinese Ministry of Education releases that in 2001, total number of foreign students in China is over 350,000, and this number is approximately the same as the total number of Chinese students studying abroad.

• China carries out the nine-year compulsory education program.

• The education related data:

• China facing brain drain, Chinanews.cn, Mar. 4, 2007
• Students banned to live off campus
  July 7, 2007 - China's Ministry of Education has banned university students from renting private accommodation during their studies, telling all students that they must share four to eight-person dormitories. In a notice issued on Friday, the ministry instructed all universities to make the dormitories "another front for political and ideological education" in order to create a "good climate for the students' growth". (Click for full report on ChinaDaily.net)
• China's Tsinghua University to recruit 134 teachers worldwide
  July 22, 2007 - China's prestigious Tsinghua University will recruit 134 teachers worldwide, the Beijing News reported here Sunday. Tsinghua will recruit 49 professors or researchers and 85 associate professors and researchers, the paper quoted the sources from the University as saying.(Click the title of this news for full report.)
• Man, 89, enrolls in law school
  Zhengzhou Evening News - An 87-year-old man, Wang Jianbang of Zhengzhou, capital of Henan Province, has become the oldest person in China to take law courses. According to Sun Jiwen, headmaster of the training school, Wang hopes to become a lawyer when he graduates. Wang decided to take up law after he lost a property case early this year. Moved by Wang's spirit, the training school has waived his tuition fees of more than 10,000 yuan ($1,298).
• English-training school to list on Wall Street
  Xinhua,  Aug. 31, 2006 - China's largest English-training school is seeking to raise funds by listing on the New York Stock Exchange Big Board.Beijing-based New Oriental Education and Technology Group Inc. registered on Aug. 22 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise 112 million U.S. dollars through an initial public offering (IPO) under the symbol "EDU." The company has helped hundreds of thousands of Chinese students get into U.S. universities. According to its website, the company expects to price its IPO about next Wednesday. It plans to offer 7.5 million American depositary shares, foreign company shares traded in the United States at an estimated price of 11 U.S. dollars to 13 U.S. dollars per share. (Click for full report.)
• Foreign teachers in China, a mixed group
  People's Daily, Sep. 7, 2006 - A "hooligan foreigner", a self-proclaimed university English teacher working in Shanghai has gained notoriety for his philandering behavior, detailed on his online journal. In his blog, the young Englishman writes about his exploits with Chinese women -- most of whom are his students -- in distasteful language. He misses no opportunity to insult, denigrate and misrepresent Chinese men and the Chinese government. Foreign teachers in China have again become a subject of debate. (Click for full report)
• China Highlights Role of Buddhism in Promoting Social Harmony
  Xinhua Net, May 10, 2006 - When she retired from a local factory three years ago, Qiu Huiying, a resident in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, couldn't help feeling lonely and depressed as she often thought she had been "left behind by a rapidly developing society."  Qiu, now 58, didn't find back her mental peace until she turned to Buddhist doctrines. "Having meditated over the meaning of life, my mind gradually calmed down and my family is happy to see my life back to normal," she said. (Click for full report from Xinhua.)
• 9.5 million sit college exam this year
  China Daily, June 7, 2006 - Today's college entrance exam is often likened to thousands of people and horses trying to cross a narrow footbridge. This year a record figure of 9.5 million high-school graduates will sit down for the first day of tests, each vying for one of only 2.6 million undergraduate places. (Click for full report)

• 4 Mln Chinese Teachers Needed for Foreign Students
  Xinhua, May 22, 2006 - China's Ministry of Education warned Monday that there are now less than one percent of the five million professional Chinese-as-a-second-language teachers that are expected to be needed over the next five years. The number of foreigners learning Chinese around the world is expected to hit 100 million in 2010, according to the ministry's National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. At a ratio of one teacher for every 20 students, five million teachers will be required, far exceeding the 40,000 working now working around the world, the office estimated. (Click for full report)

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