Liu Changya, director of the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Education, said that in 201kloc-0/93, higher education sent 5.336 million graduates to the society to receive secondary vocational education, which became the main force of the new labor force. The average years of education of newly-added laborers in China have exceeded 13.3 years, which is equivalent to the level of freshmen.
"In the past five years, there have been 34 million college graduates and more than 30 million secondary vocational school graduates, which is equivalent to the population of Britain or France, providing a strong talent support for modernization." Liu Changya said.
Zhou Wei, deputy director of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education, said that China has built the largest vocational education system in the world. "There are about 1.23 million professional points in 65438+300 vocational colleges nationwide, with a total enrollment of 9.3 million and 26.82 million students, and hundreds of millions of people are trained every year. In the past five years, the employment rate of secondary vocational graduates has exceeded 95%, and the employment rate of higher vocational graduates has exceeded 90%. "
In addition, according to Lv Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, in 20 16 years, there were 230,000 compulsory education schools nationwide with students1400,000. Among them, there are 0/78,000 primary schools and 99130,000 students; There are 52,000 junior high schools with 43.294 million students. The net enrollment rate of primary school is 99.9%, and the gross enrollment rate of junior high school is 104%, which is higher than or equal to the average level of high-income countries, and the consolidation rate of compulsory education is 93.4%.