January 7, 2005

Chinese College Enrollments Surge to Record Level

By PAUL MOONEY

A record 20 million students enrolled in Chinese colleges in 2004, giving the country the largest college-student population in the world.

Enrollment rose sharply in the fall, with 4.2 million freshmen accepted by colleges around the country -- double the number of students in the 1998 freshman class.

Chinese high schools graduated 5.2 million students in 2004, but almost 7 million applicants took the national college-entrance exam last summer, a number that included

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