BEIJING - China has made great leaps in developing basic and higher education over the past 70 years as the country endeavors to improve its comprehensive strength.

In the early days after the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, the illiteracy rate in the country stood at 80 percent. Today the newly-added labor force has received over 13.3 years of education on average.

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