VII

In the early 21st century, job training, further education, community education will be the focus of adult education in China. By establishing modern enterprise education system, job certificate system and taking flexible and diversified forms of school management, adult education will enable laid-off workers and those who have transferred to other jobs to receive vocational or regular education at different levels that are oriented to different age brackets, thus serving the needs of reemployment program, standardizing and systemizing such education. Vigorous efforts should be made to develop modern distance education and job qualification certificate education and other forms of further education. The self-taught examination system should be developed so as to set up a socialized and open education network. Trial operation of community education should be launched with a view to gradually putting in place an ideal life-long education system and enhanching the overall qualities of the people.

In the rural areas, a sound adult education network at county, township and village levels should be optimized so as to energetically carry out education in culture, ideology and morality, democratic legal system, environmental protection, family planning and the training of practical skills, thus serving the needs of the development of agricultural production, rural economy and the development of the society as a whole.