An Introduction of Chongqing and Its Education

Information of Chongqing

• 3,000 years of history• Well known historic and cultural city• Capital of China during World War II• Only Municipality Directly under Central Government in Central and

West China (1997)• 82,000 km2

• 32 million population• Industrial base in Central and West China

Future targets for Chongqing by 2012

• To build Chongqing into the economic growth engine

for West China and economic, trade, commercial and

financial center on the upper reaches of Yangtze

River.

• To build Chongqing into a comprehensive traffic hub,

cultural height, innovation center, education and

human resource plateau and international metropolis.

Statistics on

Chongqing’s Education (by the end of 2010)

Number Student population

(million)

Primary School 5544 1.99

Middle School 1005 1.28

High School 268 0.62

Secondary Vocational School

248 0.51

Universities and colleges

61 0.8

The total number of schools is 12 thousand with above 6 million students.

Achievements

• Compulsory 9 years free education for both urban and

rural areas

• In 2010, we popularized high school and secondary

vocational education

• Gross entrance rate to universities and colleges reaches

27%

Higher Education’s Achievement

• Silk Worm Genomic Framework • 3G Mobile Communication Chips and Terminals• High-intensity Focused Ultra-sonic Treatment

System

Future Tasks for Education

By the year of 2020

• Gross entrance rate to higher education reaches 50%, and become

education plateau in West China and education center on the upper

reaches of Yangtze River.

Challenges Chongqing Education Facing 1. The lack of balance between fast socio-economic

development and the supply of quality human resource 2. The need to match fast economic globalization with

education internationalization. 3. The mechanism to train and attract innovative

personnel with international vision and experience cannot satisfy the need for an international metropolis.

Measures to internationalization

• Universities and colleges serve as the locomotive to lead education internationalization

• In the area of general education we will customize internationalization according to different types and categories

• Identify key areas and courses for a breakthrough in vocational education and training

• Encourage intergovernmental and institute-enterprise education cooperation

• Introducing quality overseas educational resources• Broaden the scope of faculty and student exchanges• Cooperate with foreign counterparts to set up internationalized

courses• Bring in internationalized school management• Culture and language exchange

Possible Fields of Cooperation

• Regular forum, conferences and seminars

• Intergovernmental education exchange

projects

• Extensive sister school relationship

• Sharing education resources (faculty,

textbooks, materials, virtue classroom,

summer courses, etc.)

• Joint degrees and joint courses

• Faculty and student exchanges

• Curriculum development

• Confucius Institute and classroom

Summery• The economic globalization deepens the inter-relatedness of market and

everyday life in the whole world. It encourages the cross-border movement

of human resources, fund and finance, commodities, service, knowledge,

technology, and information. And it optimizes the allocation of key

production factors and resources. At the same time economic globalization

requires more exchanges on education resources, which will force each and

every country to open its education market to facilitate education

internationalization.

Welcome to Chongqing!