There are some difficulties in popularizing junior high education in rural areas.

在农村地区普及初中教育存在一些困难。

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The Ministry of Education has paid more attention to this problem and required that students in primary schools should sleep at least 10 hours a day, 9 hours for junior high and 8 hours for senior high.

教育部非常关注这一问题，并要求小学生每天至少睡10个小时，初中生至少睡9个小时，高中生至少睡8个小时。

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Primary education ran from grades one through six; grades seven, eight, and nine were handled in intermediate or junior high schools.

初等教育是从一年级到六年级；七年级、八年级和九年级由中等学校或初级高等学校所管理。

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From this year, said Mr Wen, schools would no longer charge tuition or other fees for children having their compulsory education (up to the end of junior high school).

ECONOMIST: Governing China

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