Following the successful implementation of an extensive national literacy campaign since the 1950s, the government of China also introduced the compulsory education law (1986) which guaranteed all children aged 6 to 15 years the right to receive nine years of free education (i.e. from elementary to junior high school).

UNESCO: Community Learning Centres (CLC) Programme

The Convention against Discrimination in Education stipulates that all persons, regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic condition, or birth, have the right to receive an equal standard of and access to education at any level.

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