
Chinese Compulsory Education
China has a nine-year comulsory educational system,including a six-year primary schooling and a three-year junior schooling,in which a tuition is not charged.There are two semesters in a school year,each of which lasts about five months.Children are required to start their schooling at the age of six or seven.They have Chinese,English,maths,art,music and science in primary school.But when they enter junior school,they will have more subjects,such as physics,politics,chemistry,geography and history