We made urban and rural compulsory education free so that all children of school age can receive an education at no cost.

全面实现城乡免费义务教育，所有适龄儿童都能“不花钱、有学上”。

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Compulsory education is an education system that the nation has universality to the children at school age which has law guarantee, equal, force, gratis and other characteristic.

义务教育是国家以法律保障对学龄儿童实施的一种具有普及、平等、强制、无偿等诸多方面特征的教育制度。

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Liu Jian started learning English while in middle school at age 13. It was a compulsory subject, and he took classes in it every day.

刘健(音)从初中开始学英语，当时13岁。当时这是一门必修课，他每天都会上英语课。

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The rules for beginning school mean that a child reaches compulsory school age at the beginning of the term following their fifth birthday.

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New York is among the vast majority of states that don't make school attendance compulsory until the age of 6 or 7.

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However, with support from international organizations, the government set to restructure the education system by introducing laws such as free and compulsory education for children up to age 16, and increased the budgets for school system expansion, human resources development and adult non-formal education programmes.

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