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of parachute jumping
Even the children are being trained to take active part in fighting. [[strikethrough]] At [[/strikethrough]] the National Commission on Aeronautical affairs established schools for boys of 12-15 to perpare them for the future air force. At the parachute jumping contest a nine year old boy won the title of the best parachutist. Among the entries wfsta boy of seven. 
Educational progress in wartime China has been astounding. Because of destruction schools have been moved into the interor. There are now 133 colleges and universities, 25 more than before the war. There are 22 per cent more secondary school and 60,000 more primary schools. More than 90 million people have been taught to read and write the basic 8,000 caraters under the Maos education program. All this is co-edutional for young and old. When I returned to China from America, I found great changes among my friends. During our childhood I was considered diffirent, because my father insisted on bring me up in a way that seemed revolutionary to them. But the war had forced such changes that they were even more hardened and modern than I . For example