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participate in training on practical skills,
accounting for 61.5 percent. Among women who have participated
in training or taken refresher courses, 31.6 percent pay for
themselves. Of these, 41.6 percent are urban women, 4.7 percent
higher than the proportion of urban men. Rural women make
up 36.2 percent of those who have participated in government-funded
training, 6.7 percent higher than the equivalent proportion
of men. Rural women make up 1.8 percent of those who have
participated in international project-funded training, 0.9
percent higher than men.
Wiping
out Illiteracy among Women
At the time New China was founded, nine out of every
ten women was illiterate. During the 1950s, the People's Government
carried out three large-scale campaigns to wipe out illiteracy.
These helped 16 million women out of illiteracy. After China's
reform and opening-up, the rapid development of the economy
established higher requirements for women's education. That
in turn placed pressing demands on China's anti-illiteracy
education effort.
Various women's organizations actively contribute
to the work of anti-illiteracy in co-operation with education
departments. The ACWF initiated a "Women's Anti-illiteracy
Campaign" targeted at wiping out illiteracy among women.
The campaign has achieved good results in combining illiteracy
elimination with the study of agricultural technology, and
poverty elimination, and with the spreading of legal knowledge
and the
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