In the four decades and more since the founding of New China, the country has helped 110 million illiterate women learn how to read and write, cutting down the ratio of illiterate women from 90 percent in 1949 to 32 percent in 1995.

• 建国四十多年来，全国已累计扫除女文盲1.；1亿，使妇女文盲比例由1949年的90%25降到1995年的32%25。