According to the white paper, entitled “China’s achievements in the balanced development of women in a new era,” the gender gap in basic education is largely eliminated.
In 2024, girls accounted for 47.3% of kindergarten children, while girls accounted for 46.98% of students who received nine years of compulsory education, and the white paper emphasizes that the net educational enrolment rate for school-age girls is above 99.9%.
The white paper highlighted the achievement of a rough balance between males and female students in higher education.
In 2024, female students at higher education institutions totaled 50.76%, 14.15 percentage points higher than in 1995.
In 2020, the average length of schooling for women over the age of 15 reached 9.59, according to the white paper.
MNA/Xinhua