Effects and Influence on the Other Provinces by Implementing the Elementary Education in Shanxi during the Years of the Republic of China

In the years of the Republic of China, Shanxi province was well known in the Chinese educational circle because it was the earliest province to implement the elementary education with perfect planning, effective measures and remarkable success. The number of national schools and children enrollment as well as the enrollment rate ranked among the best of the whole country, with once the enrollment rate of school-age children reaching 72.2%, an unprecedented miracle in the modern and contemporary Chinese history of education. The achievements drew a lot of attention from the educational and journalist circles both at home and abroad. The Ministry of Education formulated the plan of implementing compulsory education in the whole country based on the compulsory education procedures in Shanxi and ordered the other provinces to learn from Shanxi.