ABSTRACT
Adult education occupies a prominent position in modern China's educational history and particularly in those education programmes conducted under Chinese Communist Party supervision. Planners have little choice but to concentrate the largest share of resources upon providing the work-force with something approaching a formal education. Unless the formal education system expands very greatly in the next decade it is inevitable that urban-industrial enterprises will be compelled to satisfy their own requirements for educated and skilled manpower. The development of secondary and primary schools has been studded with pedagogic problems deriving from the official expectation that curricula should be modelled upon their formal counterparts in order to maintain standards. Employee education will have a permanent task of updating skills and knowledge in the light of new technology and acquainting workers with the requirements of new Party-State policies. The central and local branches of several non-governmental mass organisations are concerned with the administration of employee education.
