Proposals

Enhancing preschool education for regions inhabited by ethnic minority people

Source: www.chinadaily.com.cn
2018-03-05

Zeng Yong, CPPCC member and Vice-president of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, made a formal proposal on enhancing preschool education for regions inhabited by ethnic minority people.

He said preschool education, which is still not part of the compulsory education, is especially important for reducing poverty.

"Education is the long-term mechanism for lifting people out of poverty, as we could see more and more people have become better off after receiving higher education," Zeng said.

"However, there are still difficulties for ethnic minority students to do very well at college as they have not received good basic education before entering universities, especially bilingual education," he explained.

He thus suggested that society should pay enough attention to preschool education in ethnic minority regions, lawmakers should include such education in the compulsory education, and the central government should support these regions financially so that they could enhance teachers' capabilities.