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In China,there are primary schools,junior secondary schools and senior secondary schools,offering a total of 12 years of education.Primary schools usually last five years or six years.About 35% of the primary schools last five years and 65% last six years.Junior secondary schools usually offer three-year education and only a few extends to four years (about 98% of children attend three-year junior secondary schools).The nine years from primary to junior secondary are the compulsory education period.The regular senior secondary schools usually last three years to prepare the students for further and higher education.
Nine-year compulsory education
China promulgated the “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Compulsory Education” in 1986.By the end of 1998,98.9% of school-age children were enrolled in primary schools and 94.3% of the primary school students went on to junior secondary (including regular junior secondary and secondary vocational).The enrolment of junior secondary schools has reached 87.3%.About 90% of the regions in the country have made compulsory education universal and 73% of the regions have made junior secondary compulsory education universal.Large cities and coastal economically developed areas have already begun to make senior secondary education universal.
During the compulsory education stage,students have to go through examinations at the end of each semester,school year and at graduation to get their performances assessed.The performance assessment at the end of primary school covers language and maths and the rest are attainment check subjects.Subjects for examination after finishing junior secondary schools are to be fixed by various provinces and autonomous regions and centrally administered municipalities according to the unified requirements by the state.