The Quality Rating System of Chinese Preschool Education: Prospects & Challenges (Essay‪)‬

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In China, the Central People's Government (2010) recently promulgated the Compendium far China's Mid- and Long-Term Education Development, which declared that 95% of Chinese children should receive at least one year of preschool education, while 75% of children should receive a three-year preschool education by 2020. Subsequently, The State Council (2010) issued The State Council's Several Suggestions Regarding Developing Preschool Education, which suggested the importance of improving the quality of, while ensuring children's equal access to, preschool education. This ongoing legislative reform of preschool education aims to institutionalize educational equity. Further, both legislations called for the establishment of a system to effectively evaluate the quality of preschool education in China. Therefore, improving the quality of all Chinese kindergartens through an effective quality rating system has become the focus of preschool education reform.