Nursery teacher shares how early childhood education has changed in NW China's Xinjiang Reyila is a teacher at Mingde #Nursery School in Aksu Prefecture, northwest #China's #Xinjiang #Uygur Autonomous Region. Now in her eleventh year as a nursery teacher, she has witnessed the development and changes of early childhood education in the locality. "Compared with the past, we now prefer to let children play more independently. And parents are paying more and more attention to preschool #education,"

As a vital portion of children’s education, preschool education has been receiving increasing attention from the Chinese government, especially that in rural areas. In China’s southwestern Yunnan Province, remarkable effort has been invested in ensuring rural children receive high-quality early education. 18 years ago, Michael Herman, an education expert from Germany, came to Zhenkang County of Yunnan. What results have been achieved in his 18-year experience and cooperation with the local gover