The Regional and Rural-Urban Disparities of Primary Education in China

Sammanfattning: Education is seen as one of the key solutions to various social problems in the field of development studies. Primary education particularly lays the basis of forming knowledge and ability to access higher levels of other social activities. As the second of Millennium Development Goals,universalizing primary education is attracting significant attention among the international world. One of the main obstacles in education spreading is the disparities between marginalized and richer regions in various aspects within education. This thesis is to examine the important primary education disparities in regional as well as rural-urban levels in China, including education quality, dropout rate, etc. The educational gap exists on a large scale which hinders a comprehensive education development and deserves crucial attention.