China News Service, September 14. According to the website of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Education announced the "2021 National Education Development Statistical Bulletin" on the 14th. The bulletin shows that there are 529,300 schools of all levels and types in the country. There are 291 million students and 18.4437 million full-time teachers.

In addition, there are 207,200 compulsory education schools nationwide.

There were 34.8802 million students enrolled in compulsory education, 158 million students were enrolled, 10.5719 million full-time teachers, and the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education was 95.4%.

Data map: Students read the text in the Chinese class.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Wenhua

preschool education

  There were 294,800 kindergartens nationwide, an increase of 3,117 or 1.07% over the previous year.

Among them, there were 244,700 inclusive kindergartens, an increase of 10,600 or 4.55% over the previous year, accounting for 83.00% of the national kindergartens.

  There were 48.0521 million preschool children in kindergartens, a decrease of 130.6 thousand or 0.27% over the previous year.

Among them, there were 42.1820 million children in inclusive kindergartens, an increase of 1.3537 million or 3.32% over the previous year, accounting for 87.78% of the national children in kindergartens, an increase of 3.05 percentage points over the previous year.

  The gross enrollment rate of preschool education was 88.1%, an increase of 2.9 percentage points over the previous year.

  There are 3.1910 million full-time teachers in preschool education, and 87.60% of the full-time teachers have a technical secondary school degree or above.

compulsory education

  There are 207,200 compulsory education schools nationwide.

There were 34.8802 million students enrolled in compulsory education, 158 million students were enrolled, 10.5719 million full-time teachers, and the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education was 95.4%.

primary school education

  There were 154,300 ordinary primary schools nationwide, a decrease of 3,700 or 2.34% over the previous year.

In addition, there were 83,600 primary school teaching points, a decrease of 6,672 over the previous year.

  There were 17,825,800 students enrolled in primary schools, a decrease of 255,100, or 1.41%, over the previous year; 108,000,000 students, an increase of 545,800, or 0.51% over the previous year; 17,180,300 graduates, an increase of 777,100 over the previous year , an increase of 4.74%.

  There are 6.6008 million full-time teachers in primary education; the student-teacher ratio is 16.33:1; the qualification rate of full-time teachers is 99.98%; the proportion of full-time teachers with a bachelor’s degree or above is 70.30%.

  The total construction area of ​​primary schools was 871.2898 million square meters, an increase of 25.5173 million square meters over the previous year.

The proportions of schools equipped with facilities and equipment up to the standard are as follows: 92.60% of schools equipped with sports venues (halls) up to the standard, 96.76% of schools equipped with sports equipment up to the standard, 96.48% of schools equipped with music equipment up to the standard, 96.45% of schools equipped with art equipment up to the standard, and mathematical natural experiment instruments Equipped with 96.16% of schools that meet the standards.

  There were 2,870,600 classes in primary schools, an increase of 10,200 over the previous year.

There were 21,000 large classes and super classes with more than 56 students, a decrease of 12,100 from the previous year, accounting for 0.73% of the total number of classes, a decrease of 0.43 percentage points from the previous year.

Among them, there were 482 super classes with more than 66 students, a decrease of 441 over the previous year, accounting for 0.02% of the total number of classes, a decrease of 0.02 percentage points over the previous year.

Junior high school education

  There were 52,900 junior high schools nationwide (including 9 vocational junior high schools), an increase of 66 or 0.12% over the previous year.

  There were 17,054,400 students enrolled in junior high schools, an increase of 733,400 or 4.49% over the previous year; 50,184,400 students were enrolled, an increase of 1,043,500 or 2.12% over the previous year; 15,871,500 were graduates, an increase of 518,600 over the previous year. , an increase of 3.38%.

  There are 3.9711 million full-time teachers in junior high school education; the student-teacher ratio is 12.64:1; the qualification rate of full-time teachers is 99.91%; the proportion of full-time teachers with a bachelor’s degree or above is 90.05%.

  A total of 755,937,000 square meters of school buildings were built in junior high schools, an increase of 37,510,900 square meters over the previous year.

The proportions of schools with facilities and equipment that meet the standards are as follows: 95.02% of schools with sports venues (halls) meet the standards, 97.79% of schools equipped with sports equipment meet the standards, 97.51% of schools equipped with music equipment meet the standards, 97.49% of schools equipped with art equipment meet the standards, and science experimental instruments are equipped 97.41% of schools up to the standard.

  There are 1,098,900 classes in junior high school, an increase of 25,500 over the previous year.

There were 7,225 large classes and super classes with more than 56 students, a decrease of 5,470 over the previous year, accounting for 0.66% of the total number of classes, a decrease of 0.53 percentage points over the previous year.

Among them, there were 106 super classes with more than 66 students, a decrease of 119 over the previous year, accounting for 0.01% of the total number of classes, a decrease of 0.01 percentage points over the previous year.

Children of migrant workers

  Among the students in the compulsory education stage, there were 13.7241 million children of migrant workers who moved to cities.

Among them, 9,841,100 were enrolled in primary schools and 3,883,000 were enrolled in junior high schools.

special education

  There were 2,288 special education schools nationwide, an increase of 44 or 1.96% over the previous year.

  149,100 special education students of various forms were enrolled, an increase of 16 over the previous year; 919,800 students were enrolled, an increase of 39,000 over the previous year, an increase of 4.42%.

Among them, there are 330,400 students studying in special education schools, accounting for 35.92% of the students in special education.

  There are 69,400 full-time teachers in special education.

high school education

  The gross enrollment rate for senior high school was 91.4%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points over the previous year.

General high school education

  There are 14,600 general high schools nationwide, an increase of 350 or 2.46% over the previous year.

  Regular high schools enrolled 9,049,500 students, an increase of 285,100 or 3.25% over the previous year; 26,050,300 students were enrolled, an increase of 1,105,800 or 4.43% over the previous year; 7,802,300 graduates, a decrease of 63,000 over the previous year , down 0.80%.

  There are 2.0283 million full-time teachers in general high school education; the student-teacher ratio is 12.84:1; the qualification rate of full-time teachers is 98.82%.

  Regular high schools have a total building area of ​​643.6211 million square meters, an increase of 43.12 million square meters over the previous year.

The proportion of schools equipped with facilities and equipment in general high schools are as follows: 93.66% of schools with standard sports venues (halls), 96.00% of schools equipped with sports equipment, 95.19% of schools equipped with music equipment, 95.40% of schools equipped with art equipment, science experiments 95.61% of schools are equipped with instruments that meet the standards.

secondary vocational education

  There are 7,294 secondary vocational schools nationwide, a decrease of 179 schools of the same caliber compared with the previous year.

  Secondary vocational education enrolled 4,889,900 students, an increase of 43,800 or 0.90% over the previous year; 13,118,100 students were enrolled, an increase of 439,800 or 3.47% over the previous year; 3,753,700 graduates, an increase of 3.47%. A decrease of 80,900 people or 2.11% over the previous year.

  There are 695,400 full-time teachers in secondary vocational education; the student-teacher ratio is 18.86:1; the proportion of full-time teachers with a bachelor's degree or above is 93.57%; "double-qualified" full-time teachers account for 55.51% of full-time teachers in professional (skill) courses.

higher education

  There are 3012 institutions of higher learning in the country.

Among them, there were 1,238 general undergraduate schools (including 164 independent colleges), a decrease of 11 from the previous year; 32 undergraduate-level vocational schools, an increase of 11 from the previous year; and 1,486 higher vocational (specialist) schools, an increase of 18 from the previous year. 256 colleges and universities for adults, a decrease of 9 from the previous year.

There are also 233 scientific research institutions that train postgraduates.

  The total number of students in various forms of higher education was 44.3 million, an increase of 2.47 million over the previous year.

The gross enrollment rate of higher education was 57.8%, an increase of 3.4 percentage points over the previous year.

The average size of ordinary undergraduate schools is 16,366, the average size of undergraduate vocational schools is 18,403, and the average size of higher vocational (specialist) schools is 9,470.

  The number of postgraduate students was 1.1765 million, an increase of 70,000 or 6.32% over the previous year; among them, 125,800 were doctoral students and 1,050,700 were master students.

There were 3,332,400 postgraduate students, an increase of 192,800 or 6.14% over the previous year; among them, 509,500 doctoral students and 2,822,900 master students.

There were 772,800 graduate students, including 72,000 doctoral students and 700,700 master students.

  General undergraduate enrollment was 4.446 million, an increase of 53,300 or 1.21% over the previous year, and 717,700 undergraduate enrollments at the starting point of junior college; 18.931 million students, an increase of 747,000 over the previous year, an increase of 4.11%; graduates 4.2810 10,000 people, an increase of 75,900 or 1.80% over the previous year.

  Vocational undergraduate enrollment was 41,400, an increase of 2,946 over the previous year, an increase of 7.66%, and another 15,100 undergraduate enrollment at the starting point of junior college.

There are 129,300 students in school, an increase of 55,900 or 76.18% over the previous year.

  There were 5.5258 million students enrolled in higher vocational colleges (including 452,000 students who were transferred from five-year vocational colleges to junior colleges), a decrease of 180,300 or 3.16% over the previous year; 15,901,000 students were enrolled, an increase of 1,305,550 over the previous year. The number of graduates was 3.9841 million, an increase of 217,200 or 5.77% over the previous year.

  There were 3,785,300 adult undergraduate students, an increase of 147,700 or 4.06% over the previous year; 8,326,500 students, an increase of 553,600 or 7.12% over the previous year; 2,779,500 graduates, an increase of 309,900 over the previous year people, an increase of 12.55%.

  2,839,200 students were enrolled in online colleges and universities, an increase of 60,100 or 2.16% over the previous year; 8,739,000 students were enrolled, an increase of 274,500 or 3.24% over the previous year; 2,590,600 were graduates, a decrease of 131,900 over the previous year. people, down 4.84%.

  6,257,800 people registered for the national higher education self-study examination for academic education, and 489,400 people obtained graduation certificates.

  There were 1,885,200 full-time teachers in higher education, including 1,269,700 in ordinary undergraduate schools; 25,600 in undergraduate vocational schools; 570,200 in higher vocational (specialist) schools; and 19,700 in adult colleges and universities.

The student-teacher ratio of ordinary undergraduate schools is 17.90:1, the student-teacher ratio of undergraduate-level vocational schools is 19.38:1, and the student-teacher ratio of higher vocational (specialist) schools is 19.85:1.

  The general and vocational colleges and universities have a total construction area of ​​1,087,672,900 square meters, an increase of 34,723,700 square meters or 3.30% over the previous year.

The average student area covers an area of ​​58.29 square meters, and the average school building area is 27.90 square meters.

private education

  There were 185,700 private schools of all levels and types in the country, a decrease of 989 from the previous year, accounting for 35.08% of the total number of schools at all levels and types in the country.

There are 56.2876 million students in school, an increase of 643,100 over the previous year, accounting for 19.34% of the total number of students at all levels in the country.

in:

  There were 166,700 private kindergartens, a decrease of 1,254 compared with the previous year, accounting for 56.54% of the total number of kindergartens in the country; 23,120,300 children were in kindergartens, a decrease of 665,200 compared with the previous year, accounting for 48.11% of the national preschool education children in kindergartens.

  There were 12,200 privately-run compulsory education schools, a decrease of 67 compared with the previous year, accounting for 5.87% of the total number of compulsory education schools in the country; there were 16.741 million students in school, a decrease of 108,900 compared with the previous year, accounting for 5.87% of the national compulsory education students. The ratio is 10.60%.

  There were 4,008 private ordinary high schools, an increase of 314 over the previous year, accounting for 27.48% of the total number of ordinary high schools in the country; there were 4,503,400 students, an increase of 490,500 over the previous year, accounting for 17.29% of the national ordinary high school students.

  There were 1,978 private secondary vocational schools, an increase of 25 over the previous year, accounting for 27.12% of the total number of secondary vocational schools in the country; there were 2,676,300 students, an increase of 182,300 over the previous year, accounting for 20.40% of the national secondary vocational education students .

  There were 764 private colleges and universities, a decrease of 9 from the previous year, accounting for 25.37% of the total number of colleges and universities in the country.

Among them, there are 390 ordinary undergraduate schools; 22 undergraduate vocational schools; 350 vocational (specialist) schools; and 2 adult colleges and universities.

There were 8.4574 million private general and vocational students, an increase of 544,000 over the previous year, accounting for 24.19% of the national general and vocational students.