So you think education in Florida is bad, and underfunded.
Here is a link to the Chinese government website on education strategy. To them, they are still trying to bring much of the rural population up to only 9 years of education. Only some 43% of the Chinese population has been to high school. Read some of the linked pages - very interesting.
By the end of 2004, China had 2,236 schools of higher learning, with over 20 million students; the gross rate of enrollment in schools of higher learning (college - 13th year and beyond) reached 19 percent. Postgraduate education is the fastest growing sector, with
24.1 percent more students recruited and 25.9 percent more researchers than the year before. This enrollment growth indicates that China has entered the stage of popular education. The UNESCO world higher education report of June 2003 pointed out that the student population of China's schools of higher learning had doubled in a very short period of time, and was the world's largest.
Much of the statistics may result from the low enrollment in rural areas and higher enrollment in the large cities.