Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators

Education

Institutions Providing Postgraduate Programs  refer to colleges and universities, research institutions recruiting and educating postgraduates of master’s degree, doctor’s degree and other degree upon approval by the government and under the State Plan.

Regular Institutions of Higher Education  refer to educational establishments set up according to the government evaluation and approval procedures, recruiting graduates from senior secondary schools as the main target by National Matriculation Test. They include full-time universities, independent colleges and higher professional schools, short-term vocational colleges.

Adult Institutions of Higher Education  refer to educational establishments, set up in line with relevant rules approved by the government, recruiting personnel with senior high school or equivalent educational diploma through national college entrance test for adults, and providing higher education courses in many forms of correspondence, spare-time, or full-time teaching for adults. Institutions of higher learning for adults include schools of higher education for staff and workers, schools of higher education for farmers, colleges for management cadres, pedagogical colleges, independent correspondence colleges, Radio and TV universities and other educational establishments.

Higher Education Institutions  refer to institutions offering higher education upon examination and approval by administrative departments in charge of education in provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, with an education license, which are not eligible for conferring diploma.

Civilian-run Schools  refer to schools and other educational institutions run by individuals, social groups and other social organizations upon approval by relevant competent authorities, by using educational funds not from state revenues.

Diploma Test Institutions  refer to other civilian-run higher education institutions offering full-time higher education upon special approval by educational administration.

Secondary Technical Education  shall enable students to understand necessary basic theories and special knowledge on applied technologies of a specialty, have basic skills and technical application ability for practice of the specialty. Full-time secondary technically education offers a basic study term of 2-3 years.

Undergraduate Education  shall enable students to understand necessary basic theories and knowledge of a subject or specialty, have necessary basic skills, methodology and relevant knowledge of the specialty, and have preliminary skills for practical work and research of the specialty.  Full-time undergraduate education offers a basic study term of 4-5 years.

Master’s-degree Postgraduate Education  shall enable students to understand solid basic theories, systematic professional knowledge of a subject, have relevant skills, methodology and relevant knowledge of the specialty, and have preliminary skills for practical work and research of the specialty.  Master’s-degree postgraduate education offers a basic study term of 2-3 years.

Doctor’s-degree Postgraduate Education  shall enable students to understand solid and extensive basic theories, systematic and in-depth professional knowledge, relevant skills and methodology of a subject, have relevant skills, methodology and relevant knowledge of the specialty, and have preliminary skills for independent creative research and practical work of the specialty. Doctor’s-degree postgraduate education offers a basic study term of 3-4 years.

Online Students  refer to students for Internet-based general higher courses, undergraduate courses for adults, and secondary technical courses recruited in online education colleges opened in schools as modern remote education pilots approved by the Ministry of Education.

Employees Enrolled in Graduate Programs  refer to students recruited through national joint test for studies of Doctor’s and Master’s degrees approved by the Academic Degree Commission of the State Council, in order to improve the practical skills of on-the-job personnel. Graduated students will be conferred academic degree only, without academic credentials.

Certificate Education  refers to education not for academic credentials, run by various higher education institutions that recruit management personnel who are graduated from senior high schools and engaged in professional technical work or strongly professional management work, and receive a certificate for professional knowledge level meeting the requirements of their job position after studying in the school and pass the test. It consists of single-subject program and professional certificate program.

Single-subject Program  means that students study only one or more courses of one subject, and will be awarded a certificate of completion of single subject.

Professional Certificate Program  means that students study 8-10 courses in the school, and will be awarded a certificate for professional knowledge at junior college level required for their job.

Occupational Training  refers to educational and training activities not for academic credentials, aiming to improve the competence, run by various higher education institutions. Various trainees will be awarded Occupational Incumbency Certification and Engagement Certification. The occupational training is in the form of qualification training and adaptability training.

Qualification Training  means any training for students to become qualified for being employed (reemployed) on a job, transfer of job, and promotion as required by job criterion.

Adaptability Training  means that students receive training for adaptability in line with needs of their own job.

Advanced Studies and Trainings  means education not for academic credentials, offered for professional and managers with educational background of college and above, and technical title above middle rank, to expand their knowledge and improve their skill.

Foreign Students Studying in China  refers to foreign students who study in China.

Number of Graduated Students  means the number of enrolled students who are actually graduated after passing all exams and receiving a diploma upon completing all courses stated in the teaching plan within the last academic year. This does not include the number of students completing all courses with any one course not passed, and students not completing all courses or discontinuing their schooling.

Number of New Students  refers to the number of students actually recruited at the beginning of an academic year in line with State plan, excluding the number of students failing to go up to the next grade and those resuming their interrupted studies.

Number of Enrolled Students  means the number of students enrolled at the beginning of a new academic year.

Number of Students Completing Courses  means the number of enrolled students completing their schooling with one and more courses not passed (including the graduation paper or graduation design) or other aspects not passed, who are not granted for graduation and awarded a certificate of completion, excluding the number of students completing short-term training courses and single-subject programs.

Faculty Number  means the number of faculty working in and paid by schools (institutions). It includes the number of teachers and workers in the principal campus, in research institutions, school-run enterprises and other subsidiaries.

Full-time Teachers  refer to personnel mainly engaged in teaching, including persons temporarily (within one year) transferred to other jobs, excluding persons transferred from teaching to administrative leadership or other jobs; excluding part-time teachers and teachers taking over a class for absent teachers.

Schools for Special Education  mean schools recruiting blind, deaf and mute teenagers for primary and secondary education.

Floor Space of Schoolhouse  refers to the building area of various houses of which the property right is owned by the school and which have been used, excluding houses not completed and under construction, borrowed and rented, or temporarily built sheds and houses.

Area of Dilapidated Houses  refers to the area of those houses that have not been repaired for many years, have seriously damaged components, are at the risk of collapse, and are identified by the house administration authority as dilapidated houses.

Area of Land Occupied by School  means the area of land within campus, excluding the area of land for farms and forest land outside schools and school-run factories.

Culture

Collection of Books in Public Libraries  means the number of books collected in independent libraries open to the public and run by all-level cultural bodies (excluding book rooms in culture centers, and books collected in libraries not included in the cultural system).

Comprehensive Coverage Rate of Broadcast  means the share of population who can receive broadcasting programs in the target area, calculated in line with Statistical Standard and Method on Television and Radio Coverage of Population established by the State Administration of Broadcasting, Film and Television, of the total population in the administrative area.

Comprehensive Coverage Rate of Broadcast in Rural Area  means the share of rural population who can receive broadcasting programs in the target area, calculated in line with Statistical Standard and Method on Television and Radio Coverage of Population established by the National Administration of Broadcasting, Film and Television, of the total rural population in the administrative area. Rural area means villages of towns with people’s governments approved by the State and areas under the jurisdiction of rural towns with organizational system, excluding towns where people’s governments of counties are located. 

Comprehensive Coverage Rate of Radio  means the share of population who can receive broadcasting programs transmitted with short-wave, medium-wave, FM and other radio transmission technologies in the target area, calculated in line with Statistical Standard and Method on Television and Radio Coverage of Population established by the National Administration of Broadcasting, Film and Television, of the total population in the administrative area, including the population covered by  broadcasting programs from central, provincial, prefectural cities and county radio stations.

Comprehensive Coverage Rate of TV  means the share of population who can receive TV programs in the target area, calculated in line with Statistical Standard and Method on Television and Radio Coverage of Population established by the National Administration of Broadcasting, Film and Television, of the total population in the administrative area, including the population covered by TV programs from central, provincial, prefectural cities and county TV stations. 

Comprehensive Coverage Rate of TV in Rural Area means the share of rural population who can receive TV programs in the target area, calculated in line with Statistical Standard and Method on Television and Radio Coverage of Population established by the National Administration of Broadcasting, Film and Television, of the total rural population in the administrative area, including the population covered by TV programs from central, provincial, prefectural cities and county TV stations. Rural area means villages of towns with people’s governments approved by the State and areas under the jurisdiction of rural towns with organizational system, excluding towns where people’s governments of counties are located.

Comprehensive Coverage Rate of Wireless TV  means the share of population who can receive TV programs transmitted with short-wave, medium-wave, FM and other radio transmission technologies in the target area, calculated in line with Statistical Standard and Method on Television and Radio Coverage of Population established by the National Administration of Broadcasting, Film and Television, of the total population in the administrative area, including the population covered by radio television programs from central, provincial, prefectural cities and county TV stations.

Access Rate of CATV  refers to the percentage of households which can watch television programs by cable broadcasting and television transmission network (including cable TV households receiving analog signals and digital signals, excluding collective subscribers such as hotels, companies and entities, office buildings), to the total households in the administrative area).

Number of Digital Broadcast/TV Subscribers  means the number of households watching digital-signal TV programs through the TV and radio cable transmission network.

Number of Pay TV Subscribers  means the number of cable TV households watching digital-signal TV programs through the TV and radio cable transmission network and paying fees for watching.