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[The Maintalk] 19:30,Mar.22 on ICS Rebroadcasting time: 01:00，07:00,12:30, Mar.23
Rural education has been a top priority on the Chinese government’s agenda
for the past five years, but the educational inequality between the city and the
countryside is getting bigger. Students’ life in the poor west is much tougher
than most city dwellers could ever imagine.Chinese children are offered free
education from ages six to fifteen. Even so, a large number of rural
students quit school every year.Deprived of education opportunities, rural
students’ lives on average remain enclosed in the villages, leaving the
urban-rural differences further entrenched.United Nation officials have long
said, the circumstances into which children are born should not define their
educational opportunities.What can the government do to decrease the educational
inequality? Should private education play a role?
To find out these answers,
we caught up with Yu Minhong, Founder, Chairman and CEO of the New Oriental
Education & Technology Group and CPPCC delegate.