教育部部长周济在国新办新闻发布会上表示,截至目前,全国城乡免费义务教育阶段1.6亿多名学生的学杂费全部免除,城乡免费义务教育全面实现。他说,2008年,我国共有小学30.09万所,在校生10331.51万人;初中学校5.79万所,在校生5584.97万人。全国 Minister of Education Zhou Ji said at a news briefing held by the State Council that as of now, the tuition and miscellaneous fees of more than 160 million students in free and compulsory education in urban and rural areas across the country have been completely exempted and free and compulsory education in urban and rural areas has been fully implemented. He said that in 2008, there were a total of 300,900 primary schools in China with 103.351 million students, 57,900 middle and high schools and 55,849,700 students. National