Shavkat Mirziyoyev congratulates the President of the People's Republic of China

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev congratulated the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping on October 1 - the Education Day in the People's Republic of China.

It should be noted that the Chinese education system is the largest one in the world. On June 2018, there were 9.75 million students taking the National Higher Education Entrance Examination (Gao Kao) in China. Investment in education accounts for about 4% of total GDP in China. In 1986, the Chinese government passed a compulsory education law, making nine years of education mandatory for all Chinese children. Today, the Ministry of Education estimates that above 99 percent of the school-age children have received universal nine-year basic education.

On March 2018, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China announced a total of 489,200 international students were studying in China in 2017. International students have enrolled in over 935 higher education institutions in China. China has a long history of providing education to international students studying in high schools and universities in China. Over the past few years, the number of international students who study abroad in China has significantly increased every year.