The most recent statistics published by China's state-owned media showed that of China's top two schools, Peking University had a rural population of 16.3 percent in 1999 (down from 50 percent to ...

Many schools do not even provide three meals a day, according to Stanford University’s Rural Education Action Programme. The fare often lacks much nutritional value, too. Not much food for thought ...

Rural schools have been closing their doors at an alarming rate between 2000 and 2010, causing 63 rural primary schools, 30 learning centers and three middles schools to vanish per day, according ...

At a rural elementary school in a poor, mountainous region of Shaanxi province in China’s northwest, the 60-odd students, age 5 to 14, sit for their lessons in dirty, concrete-walled classrooms.

China plans to improve schools in poor rural areas over the next three to five years, said the Education Ministry in Beijing on Tuesday. CHINA / POLITICS.

In rural areas, the problem may be significantly worse: Research conducted by China Youth Daily, also in 2016, found more than 36% of children at rural boarding schools — common in the hollowed-out ...

HUNAN, Central China — With just a few days to go until the gaokao, China’s highly competitive college entrance exam, most students across the country are feeling the pressure.But in rural Guanzhuang ...

NANNING, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- What does a kitchen garden mean to children in a rural primary school in China? To Principal Yang Peng, it makes the school feel like home. Yang heads a primary boarding ...

However, just a day after the final, Richard Xu from Harvard Business School, who placed 190th in the first round, announced on China’s Quora-type site Zhihu that he, along with 38 other ...