On Nov 10 CHINA STATE PLANNER deputy director Huang Weiru said that during the
15th Five-Year Plan period authorities will increase supply of ordinary high
school places and higher-education seats. Measures include funding construction
of ordinary high school facilities (teaching buildings, dormitories, canteens,
sports fields) to raise capacity and ease shortages; supporting qualified
localities to establish several new research universities; and building a number
of high-level, distinctive vocational undergraduate schools to expand quality
higher-education resources.