ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses major strengths of the Chinese system; priority issues for adult education in China; and questions for the long term future. It presents a section of recommendations to guide future relationships between adult educators from various parts of the world and their Chinese colleagues. The Chinese educational bureaucracy reaches the local level through the Party, the army and the government cadres. It also spreads horizontally through mass organisations like the Communist Youth League, the All-China Federation of Workers, the National Federation of Women and the mass media. The system of worker and peasant education has secured substantial political recognition and support at the highest levels of the State. The Department has developed considerable experience and expertise in managing and facilitating this huge system without stifling local initiative; decentralisation and the stimulation of local responsibility appear to be on the increase.
