教育部日前在官方网站公布《2005年全国教育事业发展统计公报》,数据显示:2005年全国小学在校生人数10864.07万人,比对上一年减少381.04万人。公报透露,由于小学学龄人口逐年减少,小学校数、招生数和在校生数继续减少。2005年全国共有36.62万所小学,比对上一年减少2.8万所;招生 The Ministry of Education recently announced on the official website the Statistical Communique on the Development of Education in 2005 in China. The data shows that there were 108,640,700 students enrolled in primary schools in 2005, a decrease of 3,810,400 from the previous year. The communique said that as the number of primary school-age children decreased year by year, the number of primary schools, the number of enrolled students and the number of enrolled students continued to decrease. There were 366,200 primary schools in 2005, a decrease of 28,000 over the previous year; enrollment