Ghost of illiteracy returns to haunt country China Daily | April 2, 2007| | Copyright 2007 China Daily. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

The number of illiterates in China grew by more than 30 million between 2000 and 2005 despite its efforts to eradicate illiteracy, a senior official has said.

Though over 9.75 million adults learnt to read and write during this period, the number of illiterates in the country rose to 116 million, said Gao Xuegui, director of the illiteracy eradication office of the basic education department of the Ministry of Education.

The number of illiterates in China accounted for 11.3 percent of the world's total in 2000, right after India, and 15.01 percent in 2005. That means many people who had come ...

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