在国家一系列政策举措下,我国基础教育取得了突破性进展。到2005年,全国普及九年义务教育人口覆盖率和初中毛入学率均达到95%以上,进入全面普及的新阶段。西部地区“两基”攻坚取得重大进展,中西部地区农村义务教育普及程度和质量明显提高,农村教育面貌发生深刻变化。高中阶段教育规模继续增加,在校生达 Under a series of national policy measures, China’s basic education has made breakthrough progress. By 2005, the population coverage rate of nine-year compulsory education and the gross enrollment rate of junior high schools in the country all reached more than 95%, entering a new phase of universal popularization. Significant progress has been made in tackling key problems in the western region such as “two bases”. The popularization and quality of compulsory education in rural areas in the central and western regions have been markedly improved, and profound changes have taken place in the rural education. The scale of high school education continues to increase, reaching the students