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“Surprisingly”, Compulsory Education is Free!

Education is important to China’s future, and education reform has been a long drawn-out complex process, which people of all stripes agree has basically been inadequate. From the early days of Project Hope corruption to the current education... ...full story at Blogging For China

from Blogging For China on Tue, Apr 14 2009

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