Covering an area of 139,600 square kilometers, with a population of 69.02 million, Anhui Province lies in the eastern part of China. It abounds in natural and cultural resources and human talents.

Anhui’s education has developed rapidly since China began to practice policies of opening to the world and economic reform. In 1998, the province realized the goal of meeting state standards for making nine-year compulsory education basically universal and basically eliminating illiteracy among young and middle-aged people, which ranks Anhui foremost among all the provinces in China. By the end of 2013, institutions offering postgraduate programs had totaled 21, with 46,506 students enrolled. There were 106 institutions of higher education, and the general tertiary education enrollment was 1.052 million students with the gross enrollment rate of 35 percent, up by 4.4 percentage points over the previous year. There were 463 vocational schools (technical worker training schools excluded) with the enrollment of 968 thousand students. There were 1.255 million students in 698 senior secondary schools with the gross enrollment rate of 90 percent, up by 4 percentage points, 1.997 million students in 2,902 junior secondary schools with the enrollment rate of 99.2 percent and 4.092 million pupils in 11,507 elementary schools with the enrollment rate of 99.7 percent. Graduates from adult educational institutions numbered 1.018 million.

The goal set by Anhui is to adapt its education to satisfy people's needs and wants. Anhui is determined to reinforce its educational reform and increase the investment into this sector; to make great efforts to renew ideas of running school; to actively restructure the province’s education; to strengthen international exchanges, and to maintain a balanced and sustainable development of education. As a result, the conditions of running school for all kinds of schools have been improved; and the level for running school has also been improved. The rapid development of education in Anhui Province has made it possible that the holistic quality of Anhui people has been greatly improved. All these will provide strong guarantee of talents and support of intelligence for carrying out the strategy of speeding development, enriching the province and its people, and building a well-off society.

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