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jlduggeryesterday at 10:09 PM1 replyview on HN

> It's pure statistics

I'm not so sure about that: https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2026/ suggests peak high school in china was years ago.


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yorwbayesterday at 11:03 PM

Of ≈17 million Chinese students who graduated junior high school after grade 9 in 2024, ≈10 million were admitted to a high school, ≈4 million to a vocational school and the remaining ≈3 million disappear from education statistics, presumably directly entering the workforce. http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_sjzl/sjzl_fztjgb/202506/t20250611_...

So at least in theory there's still lots of room to increase high school enrollment, though I doubt this would lead to noticeably more geniuses. The testing system is pretty good at sorting the best students into good schools, I think.

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