An undergraduate team player weighs a project during the 15th National College Structural Design Contest held at the Taiyuan University of Technology, north China's Shanxi Province, March 25, 2023. [Photo by Zhang Yun/China News Service]

The gross enrollment ratio in China's higher education reached 59.6% in 2022, up 1.8 percentage points from 2021, the Ministry of Education said on March 23, 2023.