Rural Left-Behind Population 農村留守人口

A term used to describe old people, women and children left behind in rural areas when their sons, husbands and fathers go to cities to earn the family's bread. This phenomenon is caused by a long-standing imbalance in economic development between urban and rural areas.

“農村留守人口”指的是農村青壯年男性去城市打工掙錢后，留在農村的老人、婦女和兒童。這種現象是城鄉發展長期不平衡導致的。

Equal Access to Education 教育公平

A target for the country's education policies aiming at ensuring equal opportunity for all to receive education of equal quality. First listed as a policy target in the Resolution on Several Great Issues of Building Harmonious Society approved in the Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2006, it is stressed over and again in official documents as one of the preconditions for social equality. The State has staged a series of policies to achieve this target, ranging from offering free compulsory education, waiving tuitions for university students in teacher educating programs, sharing facilities and teaching faculty among different primary schools within a city to increasing the State financial input in rural areas.

這是國家教育政策要實現的目標，旨在保證每個受教育者有同等的機會受到同等質量的教育。2006年，中國共產黨第十六次全國代表大會第六次會議上提出的《中共中央關于構建社會主義和諧社會若干重大問題的決定》中首次將其列為為政策目標，突出強調并再次將其以正式文件的方式確立下來，作為社會平等的先決條件。政府出臺了一系列政策以實現這一目標，包括實行免費義務教育、高校師范專業學生免學費、同一城市不同的初級學校共享設施和師資以及增加國家財政對農村地區的教育投入。

Three Direct Links 大三通

A term used to describe the direct flights, shipping and postal services across the Taiwan Straits. Inaugurated on December 15 last year, their reopening between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan signals the breaking of a decades-long ban on regular links with Chinese compatriots across the Taiwan Straits. Direct communication across the Straits virtually stopped after the new China was founded in 1949 and the Kuomintang government retreated to Taiwan.

“大三通”指海峽兩岸“通郵、通航、通商”。海峽兩岸于2008年12月15日開啟的“大三通”標志著橫亙在大陸和臺灣同胞間常達幾十年的有礙正常交往的堅冰已被破除，自1949年新中國成立，國民黨退守臺灣后，兩岸直接聯系實際上就停止了。