Enrollment expansion in colleges and universities, also known as university enrollment expansion or college enrollment expansion, refers to the educational reform policy of enrollment expansion in colleges and universities implemented by People's Republic of China (PRC) (PRC) (namely Chinese mainland) since 1999, based on solving the economic and employment problems. To put it simply, it is the educational reform policy of continuously expanding the enrollment scale of higher education (including undergraduate and graduate students) since 1999.

The enrollment expansion originated from the Action Plan for Revitalizing Education Facing the 2 1 Century issued by the Ministry of Education in 1999. The document proposes that by 20 10, the gross enrollment rate of higher education will reach 15% of the school-age youth.

After entering 2008, the Ministry of Education said that the enrollment expansion from 65438 to 0999 was too hasty, and the proportion of enrollment expansion was gradually controlled. However, in the context of the global financial turmoil in 2009, the Ministry of Education began to adjust the enrollment ratio of graduate students.

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Background:

1992, Deng Xiaoping's southern tour speech, positively affirmed the reform, opening up and market economy. Large-scale reorganization of state-owned enterprises began to be implemented, state-owned enterprises with poor management closed down one after another, and the government began to streamline personnel. The restructuring of state-owned enterprises made it impossible for state-owned enterprises to accept college students on a large scale as before, so in 1996, the state began a pilot project of two-way free employment. By 1998, the national system of assigning jobs to college students was basically abolished, and more than 70% of college graduates chose their own jobs that year.

At the same time, from 1992 to 1998, due to the reform of state-owned enterprises and market economy, a large number of unemployed people (called laid-off workers in China) appeared in China. Among them, 1997 laid-off workers nationwide 2 1 15000.

Economically, in the early 1990s, China's economy was overheated and the inflation rate was extremely high. Zhu Rongji began to cool down the overheated economy, which is also known as a soft landing. Through the soft landing of 1993- 1996, the inflation rate was successfully reduced from 65438+24. 1% in 0994 to 8.3% in 1996, but at the same time, the economic growth rate also slowed down significantly and domestic demand was weak.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-University Enrollment Expansion