China News Service, March 1 (Xinhua) The Ministry of Education held a press conference on March 1 to introduce the basic situation of the development of education nationwide in 2023.

  According to the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Education, in 2023, the gross enrollment rate of high school students will be 91.8%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from the previous year.

normal high school

  There are 15,400 general high schools in the country, an increase of 355 over the previous year; enrollment is 9.678 million, an increase of 202,600 or 2.14% over the previous year; there are 28,036,300 students enrolled, an increase of 897,500 or 3.31% over the previous year. .

  There are 2.2148 million full-time teachers in ordinary high schools, an increase of 81,600 over the previous year; the student-teacher ratio is 12.66:1, which continues to improve.

The academic qualification rate of full-time teachers was 99.2%, an increase of 0.17 percentage points over the previous year; the proportion of full-time teachers with postgraduate degrees was 14.01%, an increase of 0.93 percentage points over the previous year.

  There are a total of 709 million square meters of school buildings in ordinary high schools across the country, an increase of 29.1355 million square meters over the previous year.

The proportion of schools with up-to-standard facilities and equipment is as follows: 95.01% of sports venues (halls) area, 97.11% of sports equipment, 96.57% of music equipment, 96.67% of art equipment, and 96.85% of science experimental equipment.

All proportions increased compared with the previous year.

secondary vocational education

  There are 7,085 secondary vocational education schools in the country (excluding technical schools managed by the human resources and social security departments), with an enrollment of 4.5404 million students and 12.9846 million students.

  There are 734,800 full-time teachers in secondary vocational education, an increase of 16,500 over the previous year; the student-teacher ratio is 17.67:1, further improved over the previous year; the academic qualification rate of full-time teachers is 95.69%, an increase of 0.83 percentage points over the previous year; among the full-time teachers, there are graduate students The proportion of academic qualifications is 9.41%, an increase of 0.5 percentage points over the previous year; the proportion of "double qualified" teachers is 56.71%, an increase of 0.53 percentage points over the previous year.

  The construction area of ​​secondary vocational schools nationwide is 302 million square meters, an increase of 27.1183 million square meters over the previous year.

The average school building area per student is 23.28 square meters, an increase of 13.31% over the previous year; the average value of instruments and equipment per student is 9,471.91 yuan, an increase of 11.38% over the previous year.