The China Education Daily (September 7) published an article lauding the valuable work being
done by teachers in China. In a special report on this decade of education it said: The total
number of full-time teachers will increased from 14.629 million in 2012 to 18.444 million in
2021, an increase of 26%; In the past ten years, the number of primary school teachers with a
bachelor's degree or above has increased from 32.6% to 70.3%, and more than 50% of
vocational education "double-qualified" teachers; In the past ten years, the number of
postgraduate tutors in colleges and universities has increased from 229,000 to 424,000, and the
number of doctoral tutors has increased from 69,000 to 132,000; The policy of living
allowances for rural teachers has been fully implemented. The central government has allocated
25.01 billion yuan, benefiting 1.3 million teachers in 76,000 rural schools in 22 central and western provinces; and implementing the "National Training Program", the central
government has invested a total of 20 billion yuan and trained more than 18 million principals
and teachers.
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