China has basically eliminated illiteracy among young & middle-aged people

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China has basically eliminated illiteracy among young & middle-aged people

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According to the information from the Ministry of Education, the illiterate rate of young and middle-aged Chinese had decreased from 10.34 percent in 1990 to less than 5 percent in 2002, thus achieving the goal of basically eliminating illiteracy among the young and the middle-aged set by the Chinese Government and meeting the requirement of cutting down the illiterate rate by half as set in the UNESCO "Declaration on Education for All People of the World".

Since the International Anti-Illiteracy Year 1990, the Chinese Government has actively promoted the development of anti-illiteracy education and fulfilled the promise it made in the "Declaration", working hard to meet the requirement to reduce the illiterate rate by half on the basis of the 1990 level. In 1993, the Chinese Government set the target for basically wiping out illiteracy among the young and middle-aged by 2002, i.e., reducing the illiterate rate among this group of people to below 5 percent. According to the results of the two nationwide censuses respectively in 1990 and 2000, the number of adult illiterates (over 15 years old) had come down from 182 million to 85 million, and the illiterate rate of adults had decreased from 22.23 percent to 8.72 percent; the number of young and middle-aged illiterates (15-50 years old) had dropped from 61.71 million in 1990 to 20.44 million, and the illiterate rate from 10.34 percent in 1990 to less than 5 percent in 2002, realizing the goal of the Chinese Government.

On September 4, 2003, UNESCO Institute for Statistics released the latest statistics on the global anti-illiteracy in the past 10 years and pointed out that China's achievements are the most remarkable among the 40 countries involved in the statistics.

By PD Online staff Liu Wei

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