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ural Students

Chinese colleges and universities admitted 100,000 students from rural and underdeveloped areas in 2017, a 9.3 percent increase on 2016, according to the Ministry of Education (MOE).

China has implemented favorable college entrance policies, including enrollment programs, at na- tional, regional and university levels to enable more students from rural and poor areas to go to university.

In the national program, the requirements for being accepted by key colleges and universities affi liated to central ministries and provincial governments have been lowered for students from impover- ished counties.

The regional program helps students receive higher quality education in their own provinces and regions, while outstanding high school graduates from rural areas can be admitted to top uni- versities under the MOE through the university-level program.

In 2017, nearly 64,000 students from poverty-stricken counties were enrolled in universities, thanks to as- sistance from the national program. The regional program admitted 16.2 percent more rural students than in 2016 and an additional 9,500 ex- ceptional rural students were accepted through the university-level program. “We need to improve the enrollment rate for rural students,” Xie Huanzhong, an MOE official, said. In 2016, Chinese higher educa-tion institutions admitted 7.48 million students for undergraduate study.

Copyright Deals

A total of 5,262 copyright deals were made between China and foreign countries at the 24th Beijing International Book Fair, which con- cluded on August 27. The number signifi ed a 4.9 percent increase year on year.

Of the deals, 3,244 cases were export and partnership contracts, up 5.5 percent year on year, and 2,018 were import agreements with an annual increase of 3.9 percent. Books for children and on litera- ture, culture, education, economy and philosophy were among the most popular. More books were translated into other languages, such as French, Japanese, Russian and Arabic.

The fi ve-day book fair displayed more than 10,000 books that had been published since the 18th Communist Party of China National Congress at a sub-exhibition hosted by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.

The book fair attracted more than 2,500 exhibitors from 89 countries and regions, with overseas exhibitors accounting for 58 percent of the number.

Book on Germ War

A new book on Japanese Army Unit 731 was published in Shenyang, northeast China’s Liaoning Province,on August 28. Written in Chinese, Behind Bayonets and Barbed Wire the Secrets of Japanese Army Unit 731 , is by Japanese writer Nishisato Fuyuko, who published another book on Unit 731 in 2002.

Since her fi rst book, Fuyuko has visited Shenyang almost every year and talked to victims and Japanese soldiers that served in the unit.

The book contains many photographs and inside stories on how the unit conducted its experi- ments on live human beings and traded data with the U.S. so as to be exempted from prosecution after Japan’s surrender.

Fuyuko said humans must refl ect on their crimes. She wants the book to describe history, not spread hatred. “We should never make the same mistake as our predecessors,” she said.

Unit 731 was a secret biological and chemical warfare research base of Japan established in Harbin in 1935. It was the center of Japanese biological warfare in China and Southeast Asia during World War II. The unit conducted experiments on humans alive to test germ and chemical weapons, among other atrocities. Many civilians and prison- ers of war from China, the then Soviet Union, the Korean Peninsula and Mongolia perished. Some of them were children.

After Japan’s surrender in 1945, the unit hastily pulled out of China, with 3,000 Japanese children and some experimental equipment left behind. Many of those children were raised by Chinese families.

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