摘 要: | Statistics released by the Ministry of Education of China revealed that currently nearly one-tenth of the world抯 illiterate population are Chinese. 90% of them are rural residents, half live in the western region and 70% are women. Thanks to the unremitting efforts China has made over the past decades, the adult illiteracy rate has declined from 22.23% a decade ago to present 8.72%. However, the number of the illiterate still reaches 85.07 million, about 20 million of whom are aged between…
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