Number of kindergartens grows by 77% in past decade

新闻资讯

2022/04/27

The number of kindergartens in China reached 295,000 in 2021, up nearly 77 percent from a decade ago, figures from the Ministry of Education showed Tuesday. Of all the new kindergartens established in the period, around 60 percent are located in rural areas. By 2021, there were 245,000 government-funded and privately-run non-profit kindergartens, representing 83 percent of all kindergartens in the country. The figures also showed that preschool enrollment rose, from 62.3 percent in 2011 to about 88 percent in 2021.