By 2005, there were 24 kindergartens, primary schools 17 1 3 junior schools 13, six nine-year compulsory schools, three middle schools, vocational schools 1 3,865,438 preschool children/kloc-0. They increased by 34.8%, 37.8% and 16.6% respectively, and 8956 people from ordinary middle schools and secondary vocational and technical schools in the county were admitted to domestic universities.