When New China was founded, China had a population of 550 million, 80% of whom were illiterate. From 1949 to 1969, in just 20 years, New China "wiped out" 6,543.8 billion illiterates through four large-scale literacy campaigns; By 2000, the illiteracy rate in China had dropped to 6.72%. This is a miracle in the history of human culture and education.

Literacy standard

1953165438+1On October 24th, the State Council Literacy Committee issued the Notice on Literacy Standards and Interim Measures for Literacy Graduation Examination. The "Notice" stipulates that the standard of literacy is: cadres and workers can generally be defined as knowing 2000 commonly used words, reading popular books and newspapers, and writing 200 to 300 words of practical writing; Generally speaking, urban working people can read 1500 common words, and the reading and writing standards refer to the standards of workers and peasants.

Literacy history

After the founding of New China, the whole country launched a vigorous literacy campaign. Literacy classes are spread all over factories, villages, troops and streets, and people have devoted themselves to the upsurge of learning culture with unprecedented enthusiasm. In the ten years from 1949 to 1964, nearly 1 100 million people in China took off the label of illiteracy. Such a large-scale and effective literacy campaign has created a miracle in human history.