Boarding schools in China

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As of 2015 there were about 100,000 boarding schools in rural areas of Mainland China, with about 33 million children living in them.^[1] The majority of these boarding schools are in western China, where Tibetan and Uyghur minority groups are forced into cultural assimilation boarding schools.^[2] As of 2015 many migrant workers and farmers in rural China send their children to boarding schools.^[3]

In addition to the rural boarding schools there are also boarding schools, including kindergartens, in urban areas.