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Ansai has seen outward migration which was especially strong during the early
2000s. This is different to Tongzhou where there has been net inward migration.
The numbers of workers leaving Ansai for work in other parts of China increased
from 4500 a year in 2002 to 15,500 by 2008. This increased the number of left
behind children and reduced the child population since some migrants took their
children with them.
8.4.2.4 Zhoajue, Sichuan
Although the number of school age children has been growing in Zhaojue, the
number of primary schools also reduced from 315 in 2000 to 227 in 2013. Many
small teaching points has been eliminated (Table 8.7).
Table 8.6 Number of
primary schools in Yanhewan
township (1990, 2008/09)
Types of schools 1990 2008/09
Total 47 15
Central primary^11
Complete primary^31
Incomplete primary 43 13Table 8.7 Number of schools in Zhaojue (2000–2013)
aMerged or eliminated in the year
Source From Zhaojue Education Bureau
Year No. of primary schools No. of primary schools
reducedaNo. of junior secondary
schools
2000 315 4
2001 297 − 18 4
2002 292 −^54
2003 287 −^54
2004 274 − 13 4
2005 264 −^1010
2006 263 −^110
2007 263 0 9
2008 254 −^99
2009 254 0 9
2010 253 − 1 9
2011 239 −^149
2012 237 −^29
2013 227 − 10 9
2014 208 −^199