Conference highlights achievements in rural child development

China's Vice-Minister of Education Sun Yao also said at the conference that China has built a comprehensive educational aid policy system which covers the entire span from preschool to postgraduate education, which, since 2012, has supported a total of 640 million students with their financial difficulties.

He said China will continue to enhance and guarantee the long-term effectiveness of compulsory education, provide education and care for children in rural areas, and cooperate and exchange knowledge with educational experts around the world to jointly promote children's development.

According to Shahbaz Khan, director of UNESCO's Beijing office, China has a gross enrollment ratio of 85 percent for three-year preschool education, compared to the global pre-primary gross enrollment ratio of 61.5 percent.

Khan said in his speech that as China still strives for higher goals in early childhood education in terms of both access and quality, the world can already learn from its great experience.