Patrick Kilian 1500 15 50 2000 90% 5% 1996 1996

Current Situation: Getting Rid of Functional Illiteracy

From the beginnings of our country we started the work of sweeping away illiteracy, the objective is for a person to be able to read 1,500 words, to be able to read simplified newspapers, to be able to do simple everyday accounting, the focus is on people between the active ages of 15 and 50. Up to the year 2000, our country had achieved the basic anti-illiteracy standards, since 90% at the beginning of the PRC the illiteracy rate has declined to less than 5%. This movement spread from Guangdong to the rest of the nation, and accomplished the anti-illiteracy goal as early as 1996. ["15" time, China simultaneously consolidated the result], the emphasis shifted to abolishing functional illiteracy, but temporarily lacked a special department in charge of this new effort. The mission of abolishing this new illiteracy disperses education, science, and technology within specific department jobs. For example, the Guangdong Province Education Office from 1996 to now, has separated into two focal points: to consolidate and increase

literacy ------ to allow/ask adults who have become literate to receive teaching jobs; and to put an end to the causes of new illiteracy ------ [to catch the nine general teachings]. Also Guangdong Province's Science and Technology Office has begun the "Connect the Villages" Project, the battlefield to disseminate literacy ----- rural areas, opened up an offensive to sweep away computer illiteracy.

Basic gist - Facts Military language Ru(2) Fifteen Time? 9 Teachings?