ABSTRACT
This chapter establishes this study case of a Chinese SOE school during Chinese public education reform. Under the impact of globalisation and the Chinese Open Door Policy, SOEs were required by the central government to detach from the Ministry of Education under the Modern Enterprise System in 1993 in order to enhance their market competitiveness in relation to multinational corporations worldwide. This chapter traces the birth and rise of SOE schools in China since 1949, the year of Chinese government established under the Chinese Community Party. It builds on 15-year data from government reports and Chinese statistical yearbooks to report a general landscape of provision of education by SOEs, which includes numbers of, and diversity within, SOE schools in general and in the Ministry of Railway, their distributive location and funding. This chapter also explores the reasons and methods for detaching schools from SOEs.
