More private schools PRIVATE schools accounted for 35.36 percent of China’s total in 2018, latest official figures showed. China’s private schools totaled 183,500, registering an increase of 5,815 from the previous year, according to a statistical report on China’s education development in 2018 issued by the Ministry of Education. The total enrollment of the country’s private schools was 53.78 million in 2018, up 5.03 percent from 2017, the report said. Statistics indicated that the number of private-run kindergartens, primary schools, junior middle schools and high schools increased by 3.37 percent, 1.18 percent, 3.51 percent and 7.13 percent, respectively, compared with 2017. Hot day alert THE National Meteorological Center (NMC) yesterday renewed an orange alert for high temperatures for vast portions of China. Several regions across the country saw temperatures rise to 35 degrees Celsius in the daytime yesterday, the national observatory said. Temperatures in some parts of Hubei Province and Chongqing Municipality may exceed 40 degrees Celsius, according to the NMC. The observatory warned electricity departments to strengthen monitoring of electrical wires and transformers to prevent fires caused by heavy power loads. Death toll rises AS of 4 p.m. Saturday, 29 people are dead and 22 more remain missing after a landslide hit Southwest China’s Guizhou Province, local authorities said. On Tuesday night, a landslide lashed a village in Shuicheng County of the city of Liupanshui, burying 21 houses. Rescue work soon started. A total of 40 people had been rescued from the site, according to the local emergency rescue command. |