6. University, college and vocational school students to pay
   their own tuition fees
   http://www.chinanews.com/news/9604/19/041910aa.eng
  
  
  Beijing, April 19 (CNS) -- In the next 15 years, university,
  college and vocational school students will have to pay their
  own tuition fees. At the same time, scholarships, grants, loans
  and fee remission will be given to hardworking students or
  students with financial difficulties. This is one of the education
  reform targets proposed by the State Education Commission
  when announcing the National Education Development in the
  Ninth Five-Year Plan and the Development Plan in 2010"
  today.
  
  In the next five years, 85 per cent of the population should have
  nine-years of compulsory education. Five to six years primary
  education should be made standard for ten of the remaining 15
  per cent of the population. Three to four years of primary
  education would become the norm for the remaining five per
  cent. Illiteracy should be reduced to below 5 per cent. Senior
  secondary education should be popularized in large cities and
  economically prosperous coastal regions. The number of
  vocational school students should account for 60 per cent of
  senior middle school students. The number of university and
  college students would be around 6.5 million.
  
  
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