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

It has not come close to meeting the demands of a compulsory education law introduced in 1986 that required local governments to ensure that all children receive nine years of free education.

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There were elected officials, taxes, street cleaners, stores selling household goods, and crucially, compulsory education for children aged six to 15 - the first law of its kind in South Carolina.

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