School Reform in China as Part of the Country’s Socio-Economic Development Strategy

In recent years, China has faced new challenges: depopulation and a decline in the working-age population, a rapid increase in higher education enrollment and rising youth unemployment, a significant decline in the fertility rate, and the ineffectiveness of the new demographic policy. Socioeconomic problems are complicated by growing tensions with western countries and restrictions on Chinese companies’ access to foreign technology. In the current circumstances, there is a pressing need for a new educational reform. This study aims to analyze the transformations in school education in China. At present, the reform has not yet solved all the tasks assigned to it. Note the reduction in the workload of students and the costs of education. More complex problems of socio-economic development associated with the demographic transition cannot be solved at this stage by means of school reform alone. Its effect is only temporary, and it is highly likely that it will need to be further deepened and extended to other areas.

China, secondary school, labor force, educational reform, socio-economic development