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China High School Structure

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Secondary education in China encompasses 3 years of junior secondary education and 3 more years of senior secondary education. has a complicated history. In the early 1960s, education planners followed a policy called "walking on two legs," which established both regular academic schools and separate technical schools for vocational training.

The rapid expansion of secondary education during the Cultural Revolution created serious problems; because resources were spread too thinly, educational quality declined. Further, this expansion was limited to regular secondary schools; technical schools were closed during the Cultural Revolution because they were viewed as an attempt to provide inferior education to children of worker and peasant families.

  • Grades: grade 7-12
  • Duration: 6 years
  • Primary Languages: mandarin
  • Terms                          : 2 semesters
  • Admission Term: throughout the year

The junior secondary school encompasses the last 3 grades of basic education, from grades 7 to 9. The curriculum at this level usually expands on the basic subjects taught in elementary schools and includes the additional subjects of history and geography, biology, physics, and chemistry. a foreign language is also taught at junior high schools, mainly English, while some schools offer Japanese or Russian.

Senior secondary education often refers to three years of high school (or called senior middle school) education, from grades 10 to 12. students who have completed 6 years of primary education will proceed and study three more years in middle schools.

The high school academic curriculum offered in high school includes Chinese, Mathematics, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, History, Ideology and Political Science, Music, Fine Arts, Physical Education, Technology, and Computing, to mention but a few. Vocationally oriented schools offer vocational subjects. Students can be examined in subjects such as Chinese, Mathematics, and English, natural sciences (Physics, Chemistry, and Biology), or social sciences (Geography, History, and Ideology and Political Science).

There are 2 types of schools at the senior secondary level namely the general academic high schools (Gao Zhong) and vocational high schools (Zhong Zhuan).

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