Learning about the Chinese education reforms and our school visit.
This post, the fourth in the series, Ni hao (Hello) China Travelogue , covers our Day 2 in China as the South African education delegation. We were given an overview of China's educational reforms and we visited a primary school. Dr XU Shuqin giving us an overview of China's Educational Reform On a rainy, humid day we travelled from our hotel to SYSU for our second lecture entitled "The Policies and Experience of the New Curriculum Reform in China." Here is a snapshot of that informative, interesting lecture. Background of China We learned that China established a socialist market economy in 1992 and joined the WTO in 2001. China's population is 1,4 billion and spread over an area of over 9,6 million square kilometers. 91,5% of the population is Han while about 8,5% of Chinese belong to one of the 55 minority groups. Chinese thus has a total of 56 different groups. About 56% of the population are urbanized. There are disparities between ...